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Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results of the first half of 2018 in Russia (Part II)

• The number of deaths and the crude death rate have again begun to increase

• In 2017, life expectancy at birth for both sexes increased to 72.7 years

• In January-June, 2018, mortality from neoplasms and diseases of the digestive, nervous and endocrine systems increased

• Mortality from external causes decreased by 4% compared to the first half of 2017

• Among those who died in 2017 of some infectious and parasitic diseases, 64% had not reached the age of 45; among those who died from external causes - 44%

• Infant mortality in the first half of 2018 decreased to 5.1 ‰

• The reduction of mortality at working age has slowed down

Take care of women!

• World Gender Inequality Index 2017: Russia in 53rd place

• Growth of fundamentalism and conservative ideologies leading to violations of women's rights around the world

• Sexual and reproductive rights and health for everyone

• IVF is normal!

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of St. Petersburg will grow to 5.5 million due to migrants

• Putin calls the growth of Far East population a priority

• Russia has Europe’s largest gap in life expectancy between men and women

• No growth in life expectancy among Russia’s elderly

• In St. Petersburg, healthy life expectancy to be extended to 67 years

• Russians getting married less often

• The number of divorces down by 15% over past 10 years

• 10% of Russians living in an unregistered marriage

• Over 15,000 centenarians live on the territory of Russia

• At least three trillion rubles will be allocated to state “Demography” project

• Skvortsova specifies cost of national healthcare project

• Siluanov expects support from Russians in the matter of changing the pension system

• Medvedev does not exclude further adjustments to pension reform

• 53% of Russians are ready to protest against pension reform

• Duma deputies not giving up their pension premiums

• Size of penalty for pre-retirement dismissal has been determined

• 2.5 million mothers of large families will be eligible for early retirement

• The number of orphans in Russia down to record low

• Employees most often deprived of their rights are those over 50

• Young people see opportunities for a successful career in sports and creative fields

• Non-residents have bought up a third of St. Pete’s new apartments

• Russia again simplifies procedure for obtaining foreign travel passport

• Ministry of Economic Development will work on the quality of migration inflows

• Residents of Asia and Latin America

• interested in “Far East hectare”

• Government to limit the percentage of foreign workers at construction sites

• HIV patients will be treated even without permanent registration

• Ministry of Health reports decrease in the incidence of alcoholism in Russia

• Proposal in Russia to set minimum price for beer

• 60% of Russians do sport periodically

• A quarter of elderly Russians will be doing sport by 2024

• Already a third of Russians believe that it is possible to find a husband or wife on the Internet

• “Funeral business” draft law ready

World news

• The population of Ukraine may decrease by 30% in 30 years

• Life expectancy in Estonia exceeds 78 years

• Belarusians getting married later and later

• Nearly half of men in Italy are bachelors

• China may abolish limit on number of children per family

• France becomes European champion for children born out of wedlock

• The number of pupils in Lithuania continues to decrease

• Part of Kazakhstan national population census will be held online

• Italy wants to attract pensioners to the south of the country

• The number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine continues to grow

• One fifth of Kirgizia’s population are internal migrants

• Ukrainian Foreign Ministry proposes to introduce biometric visa regime with Russia

• Taiwan temporarily introduces visa-free regime for residents of the Russian Federation

• The number of migrants to Turkey in 2017 increased by 22.4%

• The number of emigrants from Belarus reaches record high

• In 2018, about 1 million people left Uzbekistan to work in Russia

• Already over 1 million Ukrainians working in Poland

• Gastarbeiters from Asia compete with Ukrainian migrants in Poland

• Ukrainian students do not want to return from Poland

• Czech Republic prefers Ukrainian migrants to Africans

• National Bank of Ukraine forecasts $11 billion worth of remittances from labor migrants by end of year

• In Italy, migrants protest against eviction from camps

• Human rights defenders urge Australia to close refugee camp

• Maternal mortality rate in Kirgizia up by 1.4%

• President of Tanzania advises citizens not to use contraception

• Efforts to stop Ebola outbreak in the Congo so far unsuccessful

• Germany discussing topic of organ donation

• Kazakhstanis annually spend $1 billion on medical services abroad

• India abolishes criminal penalties for same-sex relationships

The newspapers write about…

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC”, “FAN”, “Nakanune.RU”, “RBK”, “Izvestiya”, “Fontanka.ru”, “RIA Novosti”, “Novaya gazeta”, “The Independent”, “Kavkaz.Reallii”, “ Aktualne.cz”, “RBK” and “Snob” on Putin’s amendments to pension reform

• “BBC, Kiev”, “Novye Izvestiya”, “Ruskaya sluzhba BBC” on raising the retirement age in the world

• “Novye Izvestiya”, “Deutsche Welle”, “Euromag » and “Nakanune.Ru” on the retirement issue

• "EADaily", "Der Spiegel", "The Spectator" and "Aftenposten" on the migration crisis in Sweden

• “Rosbalt”, “Gazeta.Ru”, “InoSMI”, “Russkaya Germaniya” and “Le Figaro” on the migration crisis in Germany

• “Forbes Kazakhstan”, “REGNUM”, “Aftenposten”, “L'Express”, “Project Syndicate” and “Bloomberg” on the migration crisis in Europe

• “Lidovky” on Syrian refugees in Abkhazia

• "The Washington Post" on the migration crisis in Venezuela

• "News-Asia" on migrantophobia in Russia

• “RBK” on migrant quotas

• “EurasiaNet” and “MIR24” on developing the Far East

• “ASI” on lowering cancer mortality

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the death of schoolchildren

• “National Geographic” on places not for death

• "Frankfurter Rundschau" on robot killers

• "Moldavskie Vedomosti" on the link between generations

• “Novoe Delo” on abortion

• "Radio Azattyk" on polygamy

• "Russkaya Germaniya" on the depopulation of the Baltic countries

• "Novaya Izvestia" and "Jinzhi Touctiao" on the population of Russia

• "Kommersant", "RBK", "Novye Izvestia" and "Meduza" on HIV

• “Forpost Severo-zapad” on traffic accidents

• “Pravoslavie i Mir” on mass health examinations

• “RIDUS” on biological aging

• “RBK” on the May decrees

• “Izvestiya” on the decrease in the number of marriages

• “Parlamentskaya gazeta” on children’s rooms at work

• “BBC” on the super-rich in Asia

• "The Guardian", "Le Monde" and "Helsingin Sanomat" on LGBT

• “Lenta.ru” on sex in old age

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on “sugar relations” in Africa

• “Novye Izvestiya” on complaints about doctors in the USA

• “Rosbalt” on a poll about Russian problems

• "The Village" on liability for dismissing the elderly

• “EurasiaNet” on the shadow labor market

• "REGNUM" about the demographic crisis in Belarus

• "REGNUM" and "Radio Ozodi" on the demographic situation in Kirgizia

• "The Public Domain Review" on dancing to death

• “Novye Izvestiya” on promoting vodka

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on personal data leaks

• “The New York Times” on domestic violence

• "Izvestia" on GMOs and the fight against infectious diseases

Read books and magazines

• Handbook of the sociology of youth in BRICS countries

• The EU in the World

• Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Belarus, 2018

• Rural healthcare of Russia in 2017

• Spain. Health systems in transition

• Through the pages of the journals “Naseleniye i Ekonomika” ("Population and Economics") and “Mirovaya Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya” ("World economy and international relations")

• Contents of the “Journal of Population Economics”

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