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European demographic barometer

Fertility in the European Union, 2017

• The number of births per 1000 persons has for the first time decreased to 9.9

• The total fertility rate in 2017 was 1.59, the average age of a mother at birth of a first child exceeded 29 years.

• In the EU-28, the total fertility rate varied in 2017 from 1.26 in Malta to 1.90 in France

• The share of firstborns among those born in 2017 came to 45.4%

• The growth in the proportion of births out of wedlock has slowed down significantly - in 2017 it was 42.6%

• The share of children born to foreign women has increased to 15.7%

• Per capita expenditure on support for families with children has increased to 690 euros

Q&A

• Gender equality in Russia: myth or reality?

• A big salary or a job in one’s field?

• Health care through the eyes of Russians. April 2019

• 20 percent of Russians would like to leave Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• Leading regions in population growth and decline

• Putin advises citizens to follow the example of Chechens in demographic matters

• Fertility slowing down in Russia

• Sobyanin estimates real population of Moscow at 20 million people

• Medvedev announces increase in childcare benefits

• Ministry of Labor will increase the number of families receiving first child allowance

• Families of the Far East will receive additional payments for a first child

• Novgorod governor stands up for age limit for payments at birth of first child

• Medvedev tells State Duma about the fight against poverty

• Real incomes of Russians have decreased by 8.3% since 2013

• May decrees on wages are being carried out in only 4 out of 85 regions

• Medvedev promises to provide all children places in nurseries within next three years

• Children will be sent to private kindergartens at state expense.

• Almost half of Russians have jobs outside their field of training

• Are the most popular professions in Russia salespeople and drivers?

• Students name their preferred job fields

• Ministry of Labor acknowledges insufficient pace of pre-pensioner retraining

• Most Russians seeking work elsewhere go to the capital and northern regions

• "Far Eastern hectare" will be extended to Buryatia and Transbaikalia

• Russia and Costa Rica mutually cancel visa requirement as of May 25

• 12 regions have put age limits on candidates for resettlement program

• Increasing the number of foreign students in Russian universities solves strategically important tasks

• Russia stops offering asylum to Syrians

• The task of the Ministry of Health for HIV is to reach 90-90-90

• Will the Ministry of Health procure obsolete hepatitis C drugs for patients with HIV?

• The rate of decline in mortality from tuberculosis in Russia is 5 times higher than world average

• Over 750 thousand abortions are performed annually in Russia

• Rosstat names leading regions in the number of residents with chronic diseases

• Rospotrebnadzor registers increase in obesity among Russians

• Ministry of Education and Science proposes not to let unvaccinated children go to school

• Russians will be able to undergo state medical examination in the evenings

• The number of deaths on the job has halved in 12 years

World news

• Population of Kirgizia grows to almost 6.4 million

• Population of Bulgaria in 2018 decreases by almost 50 thousand people

• The population of Kazakhstan is 18.43 million people

• By 2025, the population of Lithuania will shrink to 2.52 million

• In the next 6 years, the number of Ukrainians will shrink by 1 million

• The number of inhabitants of Ukraine decreased by 51.6 thousand people over two months

• Italy is “aging" faster than any other EU country

• A third of girls born today in Germany will live to be a hundred years old

• Birth rate in South Korea falls by 6.9%

• Number of marriages in Moldova falls by more than a quarter over ten years

• US scientists discover demographic imbalance in 12 countries

• A low pension decreases longevity

• Material and social deprivation affects 15.7% of EU residents

• Uzbekistan proposes to create Agency for Urbanization

• In March 2019, South Korea recorded its lowest rate of internal migration since 1975

• Donbass residents will be issued Russian passports

• Will migration issue be key to European Parliament elections?

• Belgian authorities will "discourage" migrants from seeking refuge in the country

• Latvian immigrants donate about a million euros to charity every year.

• Remittances account for almost a third of Tajikistan’s GDP

• Incidence of measles in the world has increased 4-fold

• 20% of deaths in the world are linked to poor nutrition

• A quarter of Japanese under the age of 39 are virgins

• WHO warns of the danger of gadgets for children under five years old

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant and Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on fast-track citizenship

• Forbes on the desire to emigrate from Russia

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on student migration

• Radio Svoboda on compatriots

• The Guardian on emigration from Ukraine

• Radio Ozodi on labor migration

• Atlantico on crime among migrants

• Kommersant on the shrinking population

• REGNUM on child substitutes

• Nozh on infanticide in antiquity

• N+1 on selective abortions

• BFM.RU on the aging of motherhood

• Le Figaro on the population explosion in Egypt

• Movskovskiy Komsomolets on hypertension

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on long-livers

• Asahi Shimbun on alcohol consumption

• Financial Times, Project Syndicate and NoonPost on Inequality

• RBK on pension reform

• Regions of Russia on the mortality of Russians

• History.com on the Holodomor

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on salt iodization

• Novye Izvestiya on violence and the height of women

• The Times on sex change

Read books and magazines

• Victory over the village: the demographic losses of collectivization

• Saving Russia's population: health, employment, level and quality of life

• Demographic indicators of Azerbaijan

• Social policy from a long-term perspective: Multidimensional poverty and effective targeting

• The science of wisdom

• Through the pages of the magazines Gigiena i Sanitariya (Hygiene and Sanitation) and Problemy Prognozirovaniya (Problems of Forecasting)

• Contents of the magazine Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

• Methods and results of socio-demographic monitoring of persons with disabilities. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• "Demography" section at the XII All-Russian Scientific Conference in Memory of Yuri Levada, "Modern Russian Society and Sociology"

• Inequality in health in Europe: why is it so stable? Scientific seminar “Modern Demography” of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, HSE

• Happy 50^th birthday to Kirill Vladimirovich Reshetnikov

• Alexander Ivanovich Kuzmin has passed away

• Natalya Viktorovna Zvereva has died