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World demographic barometer

Global trends in road traffic deaths according to 2018 WHO estimates

• The number of deaths as a result of road accidents continues to increase due to the rapid motorization of the world's population

• Traffic accidents are the main cause of death for people aged 5 to 29 years

• In low-income countries, mortality from road traffic accidents is 3 times higher than in high-income countries, and it continues to rise.

• Mortality from road accidents in the African region is three times higher than in the European region

• Half of those killed in traffic accidents are the most vulnerable road users - pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.

Q&A

• Internal Russian Migration

• Being friends with the opposite sex: is the impossible possible?!

• A healthy lifestyle: monitoring

• Dad can do anything?

• How pensions are accrued

In the vastness of e Russia

• Pessimistic version of UN forecast predicts a fall in Russia's population to below 100 million

• By 2025 the number of working-age Russians will decrease by 2 million people

• Ministry of Health announces decrease in mortality of working-age men

• Has fertility in Russia fallen due to a "timing failure"?

• Ministry of Labor and VTsIOM will ask Russians about financial measures to stimulate births

• Rosstat will start working with big data

• Most Russians in 2018 got married between the ages of 25 and 34

• Siluanov explains fall in real incomes of Russians

• Russians taking out microloans to buy food

• The number of Russians living below the poverty line has decreased by 400 thousand

• Half of Russian families with children are below the poverty line

• The regions with the richest and poorest families

• Moscow authorities say 7% of Muscovites are poor

• Russian Pension Fund will develop an automatic search system for finding the poor

• Children's benefits to be made less insulting

• Maternity capital will increase to 470 thousand rubles starting in 2020

• As of April 1, 2019, 113 thousand citizens of pre-retirement age are officially listed as unemployed.

• One in five Russian pensioners continues to work

• Chances of finding work for pre-pensioners depend on gender and education

• Issuing Russian passports to residents of the DPR and LPR is approved of by 70% of citizens

• Starting in 2021 it will be possible to come to Russia on an e-visa

• In 2018 more than one hundred thousand compatriots resettled in Russia

• Alexey Kudrin calls for drug law reform

• 199,088 cases of cancer were reported among Russians during 2008 mass medical exams

• The number of abortions is decreasing in Russia

• Russia ranks second in the world for the number of persons killed in fires

• Far Eastern Federal District regions enter bottom ten in population health index.

• Skvortsova does not agree with Audit Chamber on the issue of average salaries of physicians

• Putin approves strategy for development of health care until 2025

• Authorities propose carrying out clinical mass medical examinations within 24 hours

World news

• Population of former East Germany has fallen to 1905 level.

• Latvia losing its youth faster than the rest of Europe

• Ukraine to hold census using smartphones

• Gender pay gap begins long before women take maternity leave

• The best country in Europe for families with children

• Belarus lacks nearly 90 thousand workers

• EU may suspend visa-free regime for certain countries

• French Interior Minister against idea of introducing migration quotas

• Iraq and Russia give Finland the most immigrants

• Almost 19 thousand people have immigrated to Lithuania since the start of the year

• 8.5% of Ukrainians have experience working abroad

• Is Poland not facing a massive outflow of Ukrainians?

• Poland waiting for guest workers from Belarus

• Poles fear uncontrolled migration

• In 2018, 70 million people became refugees.

• The number of migrants from Africa to the USA is growing

• US will cut aid to Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras because of migrants

• US and Mexico reach agreement to combat migrants

• Flow of illegal migrants to Italy has decreased six-fold

• Uzbek migrants transfer $4 billion home from Russia each year

• Azerbaijanis marrying foreigners less often

• IOM warns of new scheme for human trafficking in Poland

• 29% of adults in the EU have tried drugs at least once in their lives

• Dengue outbreak announced in Thailand

• Microbial resistance to antibiotics could negate medical advances.

• Conversion therapy will be banned in Germany

The newspapers write about...

• RBK on the demographic situation in Russia

• Rosbalt on migration policy

• TUT.BY on migration in Belarus

• TASS twice, Gazeta.Ru, Polit.Ru on low fertility

• Ekonomika Sevodnya on indexing the maternity capital

• Radio Svoboda on “prison” children

• Reason on genetically modified children

• Novye Izvestiya on the lengthening of childhood

• "The Village" on foster care courses

• Vechernyaya Moskva on marriage

• China Daily on inter-ethnic marriages

• Le Figaro on contraception

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on childfree

• REGNUM, Kultura and Sputnik on new population projections

• Izvestiya on social policy

• Novye Izvestiya and Gazeta.Ru on the fight against poverty

• Novye Izvestiya on the difficulties of finding a job

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on gender inequality

• “Izvestiya” on regulating the alcohol market

• Izvestiya on product labeling

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on vaccinations

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on children's health

• BALTNEWS on mortality in Latvia

• TASS on the aging of the population

• Project Syndicate on the fight for clean air

• Le Monde on racism

• Stern and Slate.fr on violence

• EurasiaNet on LGBT

• Neue Zurcher Zeitung on the homeless in Belarus

Read books and magazines

• World Population Prospects 2019

• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being in Russia in 2018

• Statistics on the life of people with disabilities in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States

• Tajikistan. Demographic and Health Survey 2017

• Improving noncommunicable disease outcomes: barriers and opportunities in health systems. Country Assessment - Kazakhstan

• Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Vestnik MGU. Seriya 5. Geografiya (MGU Bulletin. Series 5. Geography)

• Contents of the Journal of Marriage and Family

Profession: researcher

• Salvatore Strozza lecture series

• Congratulations to Ekaterina Mitrofanova on her success at the All-Russian Competition for Young University Teachers

• 130 years since the birth of Lev Semenovich Kaminsky

• L.S. Kaminsky. Mortality and marital status of the population

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