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World demographic barometer

· Forecast of the world’s urban and rural population, 2018

• UN presents results of next revision of the prospects of world urbanization

• In 2018, the urban population reached 4.2 billion people, or 55% of the world's population

• Among the countries of the world, the share of urban population varies from 0 to 100%, but in half of the countries it exceeds 62%

• The world’s rural population is mainly concentrated in Asia and Africa (89%)

• The number of mega cities with 10 million inhabitants and more increased from 2 in 1950 to 16 in 2000 and 33 in 2018

• Nearly a quarter of the world's population lives in cities with a million people or more

What the experts say

• Increasing the retirement age: demographic pros and cons

Q&A

• On the retirement age and attitudes to the idea of raising it

• What do we need to protect our children from?

• Educational migration

• Travel abroad

In the vastness of Russia

• Pension reform will start in 2019

• The government intends to increase the retirement age for early retirees

• There will be no substantial replenishment of the Pension Fund in the first years of reform

• Golikova announces plans to abandon “point” pension system

• Over 90% of Russians have spoken against raising the retirement age

• 1.3 million Russians have asked the president to call off raise in retirement age

• Sberbank head approves idea of raising the retirement age

• Central Bank chief tells of benefits of raising the retirement age

• Russia will pay old-age pension to those 70 and older

• Rostrud will help older Russians find jobs in connection with upcoming pension reform

• Problem with overcrowding in kindergartens has been called critical

• The ten most dangerous occupations in Russia

• Half of unemployed Russians are between 20 and 34 years of age

• Will free trips twice a year stop the exodus from the Far East?

• Muscovites have gone abroad twice as often as other Russians

• The number of Russians applying for asylum in the European Union has decreased

• Russia and Tajikistan will accelerate the coordination of migration issues

• Could tens of millions of compatriots move to Russia if the procedure for obtaining citizenship is simplified?

• "Migration amnesty" to be given people from the People's Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Germany

• Receiving a residence permit without a quota will be possible only in the spouse’s region of residence

• Migrants will be able to register directly at the construction site

• Ministry of Labor proposes to restrict migrant labor in construction

• In 2017, about 34 million people were tested for HIV infection

• State Duma plans to ban smoking near entrances of residential buildings

• Most Russians will go to the doctor only if they detect symptoms of sexually transmitted infections

• Will state begin giving people money to buy medicines?

• In 2018, 26 million people will be invited for free mass medical examinations

• State services site to issue mandatory medical insurance policies

World news

• The population of the Czech Republic continues to grow

• The population of Kazakhstan is 18.2 million people

• 10 of the countries with the most rapidly declining population are in Eastern Europe

• The number of deaths in Ukraine over past 4 months is almost twice the number of births

• Number of births in Spain reaches 20-year low

• The overwhelming majority of Ukrainian cities have shrinking populations

• In Lithuania, one third of men do not survive to retirement age

• Japan to reduce the age of legal adulthood to 18 years

• Newborns in Uzbekistan will be assigned individual ID numbers

• Czech Premier against restoring Schengen borders

• Ban on Indonesian citizens entering Israel is postponed

• Does migration from Ukraine threaten financial stability?

• No fewer than 475,000 Lithuanians live abroad

• 48% of world’s migrants are women

• The number of refugees in world is growing

• Germany postpones solving refugee problem until EU summit

• USA taking in 70% fewer refugees

• Germany to review migrant policy

• Migrant centers in Italy to operate in closed regime

• EU may build migrant сenters in North Africa

• Spain agrees to save 629 migrants not let in by Italy

• European Commissioner opposes "census" of Roma in Italy

• On US border, almost 2,000 children of illegal migrants separated from their parents

• Trump explains why families of illegal migrants are being broken up

• In China live more than 718,000 people infected with HIV

• Every five seconds a person dies from smoking

• The number of suicides in the US has increased by almost 30% in 20 years

• Mortality of children from meningitis and pneumonia has significantly decreased

• WHO classifies video game addiction as a disease for first time ever

• Scientists register drop in average IQ

The newspapers write about…

• "TASS", "Russkaya Sluzhba BBC", "Novye Izvestiya", "iReactor", "Nevsky Novosti", "Peterburgskaya Gazeta", "Ekonomika Sevodnya", "RBK”, "Rosbalt", "Kommersant", "Praym" “Parlamentskaya Gazeta”, “Gazeta.ru”, “Forbes”, “RT na russkom”, “News.ru”, “Vmeste-RF”,“Pravda.ru”, “Aftenposten”, and “Obozrevatel” on pension reform

• “Novye Izvestiya”, “Bloomberg”, “Le Temps”, “BIZNES Online” and ”Stern” on raising the retirement age at the height of the World Cup

• “Moi Goda”, “Russkaya sluzhba BBC”, “Kapital Strany”, “Novye Izvestiya”, “RBK”, “The Independent” and “Gorod 812” on opponents of pension reform

• “Znak”, “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the difficulties of finding a job for the elderly

• “Gazeta.Ru”, “Vechernyaya Moskva”, “Polit.Ru », « Vedomosti » on the abolition of the point system for pensions

• “TUT.BY” and “udf.by” on raising the retirement age in Belarus

• “RBK” on the May decrees

• “Life” on living up to 200 years

• “Kommersant” and “RBK” on medical privacy

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on fighting cancer

• "Doctor Piter" and "Komsomolskaya Pravda" on the reduction of mortality and a healthy lifestyle

• “Novye Izvestiya” on plying Russians with alcohol

• “RBK” on the growth in demand for alcohol

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on obesity

• “Forbes” on telemedicine

• “Forbes” on paid medicine

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on video game addiction as a disease

• “Tageszeitung” and “Novye Izvestiya” on sex with foreigners

• “Obozrevatel” on the culture of sex

• “BBC Future” on sex of the future

• “Frankfurter Rundschau” on Russian emigration

• “Dalnevostochnyi Kapital” on natural population increase on Sakhalin

• “Amur.info” on a people’s gathering in the Far East

• “Russkiy Vek” on a migration conference

• “Nevskie Novosti” on quotas for foreign workers

• “Blogos” on solving the problem of labor migrants

• “Fergana” on migrants with HIV

• "Rakurs" on the results of visa-free travel for Ukrainians

• “Deutsche Welle”, “Euronews”, “Le Monde” on the migration crisis in Europe

• “Doktor Piter” on not allowing people with HIV to adopt children

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” on neglected children

• “Kommersant” on labor automation

• “Forbes” on the youth labor market

• “DennikN” on the standard of living in Slovakia and Russia

• “RBK” on a lawsuit against a condom manufacturer

• “Sayidaty” on female circumcision

• “Sputnik” on the decay of traditional Western values

Read books and magazines

• Fertility and parenthood in the socio-demographic dimension

• Mono-profile cities in Russia: origins, evolution of development and regulation

• Health Systems in Transition. Greece

• The demographic yearbook of Poland 2017

• The participation of men in unpaid childcare

• Through the pages of the journals “Demografiya ta sotsialna ekonomika” (“Demography and Social Economy”) and “Regionalnye Issledovaniya” (“Regional Studies”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Environment”

The reading room

• E.A. Sadvokasova. "Social and hygienic aspects of regulating family size "

Demographic digest

• · Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics

• · Regional population structures at a glance

Profession: researcher

• Happy 70^th birthday to Sergei Ivanovich Pirozhkov

• 115th anniversary of the birth of Elizaveta Alikhanovna Sadvokasova

•    G.K. Mukanova. The Caucasian Mona Lisa: Elizaveta Sadvokasova