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Russian demographic barometer

The population of Russia until the end of the century according to the UN projection of the revision 2019

• According to UN estimates, the population of Russia (without Crimea) as of July 1, 2019 came to 146 million people

• By 2030, the population of Russia will, with a 95% probability, be from 141 to 146 million people, and by the end of the century - from 103 to 159 million people

• In the coming years, population decline of Russia will resume; a slight increase is possible with an increase in fertility to the level of simple reproduction and migration growth

• Total fertility will, with a probability of 95%, be from 1.52 to 2.20 by mid-century

• According to the UN projection, life expectancy in Russia will steadily increase, but only in the second half of the century will it exceed the world average

• The demographic burden on the population of working ages will increase until the middle of the century with a slight decrease in the 2030s

Take care of women!

• Maternal mortality in the world: 2019 estimate

• UN calls on countries to guarantee women the right to safe and legal abortion

• In Russia, National Society for the Study of the Sexual Health of Women has been established

In the vastness of Russia

• The Ministry of Economic Development predicts natural population increase in Russia no earlier than 2024

• The World Bank expects a decrease in the share of the working-age population in Russia

• WHO finds an increase in life expectancy in Russia

• Most Russians plan to live at least 87 years

• Women in Russia and other developed countries are not ready to have more than two children

• Russians prefer to get divorced after 30 years

• 5 million entries have been made in the electronic registry office

• Russia to hold first digital census in 2020

• The census will require 33 billion rubles

• New questions will appear in the 2020 census

• Russian census takers find it difficult to get into rich private homes

• Starting January 1, 2020, insurance pensions will be increased in Russia

• Russian middle-class incomes fall for fifth consecutive year

• Oreshkin promises income growth of Russians before the end of the year

• Russians consider income of 12,500 rubles as poverty line

• In Russia, only a quarter of conscripts are accepted into the army

• Moscow authorities counting on job growth

• A third of Russians are ready to move for a better job

• The rules for obtaining Russian citizenship might be changed

• Russian citizens can visit 117 countries of the world without a visa

• Labor migrants are essential for Russia

• Salary threshold for highly qualified foreign specialists will be reduced

• The government has set a limit on the share of foreign workers by industry for 2020

• Rosstat records an increase in fatal alcohol poisoning

• The highest mortality from alcohol in Russia is in Chukotka

• Russian women smoking more despite anti-tobacco policy

• Government bans smoking on balconies

• Ministry of Health allows possibility of banning vapes in Russia

• The cause of half of deaths in Russia is cardiovascular disease

• More than half of male deaths in Russia can be prevented

• Mortality rate from tuberculosis in Russia falls to minimum level

• Cost of a birth certificate will be increased to 12 thousand rubles

• Social network "VKontakte" warns against refusing vaccinations

• 11,000 packages of foreign psychotropic drugs will be imported to Russia

• Russians at high risk of a hypertensive crisis will be given tonometers

• Ministry of Health promises transition to fair pay for doctors

• The number of Russian prisoners is almost four times higher than the average European level

World news

• Population of Greece continues to decline

• The population of the Czech Republic is growing due to migrants

• The life expectancy of Belarusians has increased by four years in ten years

• The probability of living to retirement age among Kirgiz men is 70%

• By 2050, there will be 487 million people over 60 in China

• Population census will cost Ukraine more than $136 million

• Ukraine plans to conduct electronic census before the end of the year

• The risk of poverty among the elderly in Estonia is the highest among EU countries

• 31% of older people continue to work in South Korea

• More than 8,000 stateless persons have become citizens of Turkmenistan

• Kirgizia becomes world’s first country to end the problem of statelessness

• Italian authorities may simplify citizenship for migrant children

• Trump announces abolition of visas for citizens of Poland

• Moldovan citizens will be able to legally work in Israel

• Kirgiz authorities ask to solve the problem of restricting remittances from Russia

• 15% of the income of the Moldovan population is provided by migrant worker remittances

• Migrant worker remittances to Tajikistan are most often spent on tuition and medicines

• Turkey plans to return 2 million refugees to Syria

• German Foreign Minister fears a new wave of migration to the EU

• US plans to cut nearly in half the limit on the number of refugees accepted

• Estonia refuses to accept African refugees due to Ukrainian migrants

• Czech Republic will vote against the distribution of migrants in the EU

• In September, the number of illegal migrants arriving in Italy rose sharply

• New York authorities prohibit calling visitors "illegal immigrants"

• Tajikistan intends to expand access to various methods of contraception

• UN peacekeepers accused of spreading cholera in Haiti

• Government of Ukraine intends to reduce the number of epidemiological outbreaks by 30%

• Parkinson's disease has gender differences

• In Saudi Arabia, unmarried tourists allowed to stay in same room

The newspapers write about…

• RBK and REGNUM on citizenship

• Argumenty i Fakty on the census

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda on Russia's demographic situation and development priorities

• Polit.Ru on foreign labor quotas

• REGNUM on the problems of the Far East

• REGNUM on migrant phobia

• Evrensel on the migration crisis in Europe

• EurasiaNet on Chinese migration

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the development of the two capitals

• Gazeta.ru on competition for sex

• Vechernyaya Moskva on the marriage market

• Gazeta.ru on abortion

• Ilta-Sanomat on low fertility

• ORF and RBK on alcohol consumption and alcohol mortality

• REGNUM on medical tourism

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on the health of the elderly

• Novye Izvestia on smokers

• Time on nutrition

• Vechernyaya Moskva on cancer

• Suomen Uutiset on violence

• NOZh on psychiatric rehabilitation

• Snob on “victims of perestroika”

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the loss of life in the last century

• RBK on poverty

• Gazeta.ru on inequality

• La Croix on the protesters

• Gazeta.ru on dismissals at the Blokhin cancer center

• Delfi.lt on the demographic situation of Lithuania

• Polityka on the demographic situation of Moldova

• The Washington Post on the effects of global warming

• Sputnik on LGBT

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• Better health for Europe: more equitable and sustainable

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• Resources and activities of dermato-venerological organizations

• Through the pages of the journals Demografiya ta Sotsialna Ekonomika (Demography and Social Economics) and Vestnik MGU. Seriya 6. Ekonomika (Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 6. Economics)

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