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World Demographic Barometer

Abortion in the world: uneven dynamics and unequal access

• Less than half of women live in countries with legislation freely allowing abortion

• In developing countries, the prevalence of abortion is higher than in developed ones

• Legislation affects the safety of abortion

• Abortion is the result of an unplanned pregnancy

In the vastness of Russia

• The permanent population of Moscow is 12.53 million people

• Life expectancy in St. Petersburg has reached 74 years

• Half of Russians do not believe in the prospect of a life expectancy of up to 78 years

• Life expectancy in Russia is lower than in North Korea

• To increase life expectancy in Russia, priorities must be changed

• Kudrin considers the demographic hole to be the main risk for the Russian economy

• The number of schoolchildren over past 17 years has decreased by more than 21%

• Ministry of Labor names the most "elderly" and "young" regions of Russia

• Rosstat wants to connect cellular operators to a pilot population census

• A new question will appear in the pilot population census in Russia

• State Duma Committee opposes draft law on cohabitation

• Golikova names possible schedule for pension reform

• Only 9% of Russians approve of raising retirement age

• Central Bank calls lifestyle of youth a threat to the pension system

• Topilin links poverty to having children

• The most difficult task of the new May decree is to cut the poverty level in half

• State promises to make allowance for a child from 1.5 to three years of age more than 50 rubles

• The number of debtors in Russia has grown significantly

• The most comfortable cities in Russia turn out to be Tyumen and Grozny

• The unemployment rate is falling

• The outflow of population from the Far East is intensifying

• Russia allows visa-free entry for fans of 2018 World Cup

• Proposal in Crimea to introduce visa-free regime for foreign visitors coming for medical treatment

• Ministry of Internal Affairs will develop Migration Code

• Constitutional Court urges taking into account the length of residence of foreigners when refusing to extend permanent residence permit

• The epidemiological situation of HIV in the Russian Federation continues to worsen

• The number of HIV-infected Russians exceeds a million people

• About 20,000 calls received on HIV hotline

• Russians smoking less

• Russia’s most “narcotic” regions have been named

• Russian officials to begin being tested for drug use

• Early diagnosis of cancer in Russia should reach 70%

• 40% of Russians at risk of developing hypertension

• Over 175,000 people bitten by ticks this year

• Ministry of Health is transforming the system of compulsory medical insurance

• New taxes on medicines will not be introduced

• Ministry of Health plans to increase the number of adherents of a healthy lifestyle up to 60%

• Rospotrebnadzor names regions with the dirtiest drinking water

World news

• 9-millionth inhabitant of Tajikistan has been born in Dushanbe

• Ukraine is experiencing a protracted demographic crisis

• The average age of a Romanian is 41 years and 7 months

• Over the past eight years, the number of children in Belarus has increased by 6.1%

• In 2017, 3,000 fewer children were born in Armenia

• The number of children in Moldova continues to decline

• In the world, about 40 million children are treated cruelly

• About half of the children in Afghanistan do not attend school

• China allows couples to divorce using messaging service

• Chinese will be required to pass exam before getting divorced

• All EU countries will have to legalize same-sex marriages

• Americans support same-sex marriage

• UN calls on Kirgiz authorities to stop the practice of kidnapping brides

• Pensions of working Spaniards under 40 years of age will be less than 50% of their salary

• Government of Ukraine introduces municipal nannies

• South Korea will replace some soldiers with robots

• Proposal in Uzbekistan to remove ethnic group indication from passport

• In Tashkent, women have been allowed to travel abroad without permission from men

• Uzbekistan reaches agreement with Poland on hiring migrants

• Ukraine workers are still welcome in Poland

• Ukrainians in Poland earn no less than Poles

• Migrant worker remittances to Moldova are growing

• Volume of remittances to Transdniestria has risen by one third

• UN criticizes US migration policy

• Trump will financially punish countries supplying illegal immigrants

• Will Mexico pay for the border wall?

• Denmark and Austria support establishment of temporary migrant centers

• Arabic has become second most common language in Sweden

• Each year over 7 million people die from smoking

• Almost 30% of the population smokes in Belarus

• The number of cancer patients will continue to grow

• Ireland has voted for legalization of abortions in referendum

• In Armenia, arterial hypertension screening month

• Nearsightedness being diagnosed at earlier and earlier age

• Sweden passes law on mandatory consent to sexual contact

The newspapers write about…

• “Pravda.ru” and “OBLGAZETA” on a direct line with the President

• “TASS”, “Solidarnost”, “Forbes”, RBK” and “Novye Izvestiya” on the pension system

• "Kauppalehti", "PolitExpert", "Russkaya sluzhba BBC " and "REGNUM" on the new May decrees

• "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Polit.Ru" and "Ridus" on a reduction in the number of school pupils and university students

• "REGNUM", "naviny.by" and "Grodno24" on the demographic situation of the CIS countries

• “Radio Svoboda” and “Zerkalo Nedeli” on the migration of Ukrainians

• “Obozrevatel” and “Glavred” on the standard of living of Ukrainians

• “Obozrevatel” on the Ukrainian law on transplantation

• “Kommuna” on developing rural areas

• “Delfi.It” on the dying out of Lithuania villages

• “Meduza”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “RT na russkom” and “REGNUM” on Russian compatriots

• “Kommersant” on invalid passports

• “BFM” on security measures in the run-up to the World Cup in football

• “Kommersant” on the destruction of archival data

• “Forbes” on the future of the family

• “RBK”, “RT na russkkom” and “Ekonomika sevodnya” on the maternity capital

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on anti-abortion commissions

• "Helsingin Sanomat", "Meduza", "Gazeta.ru" and "RIA Novosti" on the legalization of abortion in Ireland

• "Yle" on surrogate motherhood in Sweden

• "Izvestia" and "Vedomosti" on the growth of life expectancy

• “Vedomosti” on human capital

• "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" on children and education

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on inequality

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on healthcare modernization

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on medicines and sanctions

• "Yle" and "Berliner Zeitung" on HIV

• "Kommersant" on the death of newborns

• "Jyllands-Posten" on euthanasia

• “Gazeta.ru” on mass medical exams

• “Meduza” on a new foreign agent

• "Novye Izvestia" and "Ryazanskiye Vedomosti" on the new generation

• “Diapazon” on protecting children’s rights

• "REGIONS.RU" on a just life

• "The Daily Beast" on the desire of gays to leave Russia

• "Medusa" on sexology and sexologists

• "The Times" on sexual harassment

• "FUTURIST" and "Slate.fr" on the colonization of Mars

• “The America Conservative” on racism

• Read books and magazines

• World health statistics 2018: monitoring health for the SDGS

• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population in 2017

• Surveys of healthcare systems: Kazakhstan 2018

• Demographic indicators of Azerbaijan

• The fight against tobacco in the WHO European Region in 2017

• Through the pages of the journals “Voprosy Statistiki” ("Questions of Statistics") and “Problemy Prognozirovaniya” ("Problems of Forecasting")

• Contents of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Professions: researcher

• European Demographic Conference 2018: Population, Diversity and Inequality

• 90th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Yakovlevich Kvasha

•     A.Y.Kvasha. Demographic contradictions under socialism and the problem of solving them

• Congratulations to Ilya Kashnitsky on receiving the EAPS Outreach Award

• Demoscope congratulates Victoria Ivanovna Sakevich and Yevgeny Lvovich Soroko on being awarded the "Recognition" Medal