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European demographic barometer

· Life expectancy in the EU28: Are there reserves for further improvement?

• Life expectancy at birth in the EU-28 has exceeded 80 years since 2011, but its growth has slowed

• Life expectancy at the age of 65 years in the EU-28 is close to 20 years, at the age of 75 years - almost 13 years

• The main causes of death in the EU-28 remain diseases of the circulatory system and neoplasms - 37% and 26%, respectively, of those who died in 2015

• The proportion of under-65s among those who died in the EU-28 has dropped to 17%

• Differences in mortality from diseases of the circulatory system between EU-28 countries as high as 6 times

• About a quarter of deaths in the EU-28 could have been avoided.

Q&A

• Quality of life for Russians: key factors

• Judging from their attitude towards the police, 35% of the economically active population can be considered the middle class in Russia.

• Interethnic relations in Russia

• Should grown adult children live with their parents?

• Russians complaining about harassment less often

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia's population in 2018 declined for the first time in ten years

• Ministry of Labor expects population growth of Russia in 2023-2024

• Almost 75% of Russia’s population lives in cities

• Life expectancy of Russians over 55 should grow by three years

• Are mortality statistics manipulated?

• All-Russia People’s Front will monitor implementation of the national project "Demography"

• Thanks to the pension reform, the number of pensioners in 2019 will be reduced by 300 thousand

• Has Russian GDP nonetheless grown by 2%?

• Incomes of Russians in 2018 decreased again

• Most Russians are ashamed of their poverty

• The richest people in education and health are the directors of schools and hospitals

• Total debt of Russian households reaches record level of 210 billion euros.

• In Russia, benefits will be indexed for veterans and the disabled

• Consumer basket price could rise by 30%

• Will waiting lines for nursery schools disappear by 2021?

• Moskalkova proposes to take into account the raising of children in the work history of women

• Most Russians do not want to live with their adult children

• Passport control for Russian citizens at Russian airports will be automated

• Fewer labor migrants in St. Petersburg

• Ombudsmen of the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan agree to cooperate

• Deputies propose to ban smoking at the wheel

• Ministry of Health does not support the return of smoking areas to airports

• Deputies propose to remove alcohol and tobacco from grocery stores

• Patriarch Kirill compares abortion for medical reasons to fascism

• About 135 thousand conscripts disqualified for army because of obesity

• Rospotrebnadzor announces increase in the incidence of flu among children

• Will postmen replace paramedics in the villages?

• Ministry of Labor proposes to abolish medical examinations for office workers

World news

• Population of Uzbekistan exceeds 33.25 million people

• Population of Ukraine decreases by 208.8 thousand people over 11 months in 2018

• In China, dynamics of population changes calculated for 2018

• The number of permanent residents of Beijing falls for the second year in a row

• More than half of the world’s Jews live in Israel

• Total fertility rate declines in South Korea

• Italian President signs decree on lowering retirement age

• Is Estonia luring Latvians with child benefits?

• Planet’s oldest man dies in Japan

• Over 7 million people participated in internal migration in South Korea over year

• European Commission intends to adjust the system of "citizenship in exchange for investment"

• Ukraine is ready to allow dual citizenship, but not for those with a Russian passport

• Kazakhstan will simplify the acquisition of citizenship for ethnic Kazakhs

• Ukrainian authorities will not impede labor migration

• About 120 thousand citizens of Ukraine legally work in the Czech Republic

• 97% of Czech companies are looking for workers from Ukraine

• Another migrant caravan enters Mexico

• The number of children separated from parents in the US is unknown

• The number of requests for asylum in Germany fell in 2018

• In 2018, six migrants per day died in the Mediterranean

• In the first weeks of 2019, illegal migration flow to EU nearly doubled

• Tajik school children tested for HIV

• The growing popularity of euthanasia in the United States is explained by the high cost of treatment

• In Germany, law dating from Nazi era banning abortion advertising to be relaxed

• The risk of dying soon after the death of a partner is significantly higher in men than in women.

• In Japan, sex robots attract men more than real women

• Japan officially recognizes same-sex unions for first time

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant and REGNUM on the shrinking population of Russia

• Kommersant on pensions

• Le Monde, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and RBK on inequality and poverty

• Helsingin Sanomat, Novye Izvestiya and The Nation on international migration

• Izvestiya on passport control

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on buying citizenship

• Novye Izvestiya on palliative care

• Radio Svoboda on a decline in hospitalization

• RIA Novosti on people with HIV

• Slate.fr, The Daily Mail, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Svenska Dagbladet and Huanqiu Shibao on age and longevity

• Magazeta on gene editing

• Izvestiya on fertility stimulation

• El Pais on teenage pregnancy

• Die Welt on sex with robots

• Qiuyi.cn on surrogacy

• Novye Izvestiya on alimony

• Yle on domestic violence

• Novye Izvestiya on sexism

• Novye Izvestiya and EurasiaNet on gender relations in Russia

• Suddeutsche Zeitung, Advance and The Wall Street Journal on combating “toxic masculinity”

• Saarbrucker Zeitung on vodka consumption

• Naked Science on superbugs

• RBK on medicines

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on occupational risk

• Forbes on rise in upward growth of cities

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on wall newspapers and Demoscope’s Satirical Column

Read books and magazines

• Man in the megacity: the experience of interdisciplinary research

• The present and future of the family in a changing world

• Regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2018

• Report on the health of refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region: no public health without refugee and migrant health

• Women and men of the Kirgiz Republic 2012-2016

• Through the pages of the magazines Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Vestnik RAMN (Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences)

• Contents of the Journal of Marriage and Family

Demographic digest

• Trends in infant mortality in Venezuela between 1985 and 2016: a systematic analysis of demographic data

• Upsurge of Homicides and Its Impact on Life Expectancy and Life Span Inequality in Mexico, 2005–2015

• BONUS: The limits of blind peer review

Profession: researcher

• Deaths during the New Year holidays. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 85 years since the birth of Valentina Sergeevna Steshenko

•     V.S. Steshenko. General characteristics of the state of Soviet demography

Satirical column

• How to become a demographically successful country?

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