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European demographic barometer

The first demographic results of 2018 in the EU

• The EU-28 population continues to grow - by the beginning of 2019 it exceeded 513 million people

• In 2018 net migration was, as in 2015 and 2017, the only factor in the growth of the EU-28 population against the backdrop of a deepening natural decline

• The number of births in the EU-28 in 2018 for the first time turned out to be fewer than 5 million people

• In 2018, the number of deaths in the EU-28 for the first time exceeded 5.3 million people

• Half of the EU-28 population is over 43 years old

Q&A

• The border between poverty and a “normal” standard of living in the perception of Russians

• Father involvement, or what is more important for children than money?

• Vaccinations: a sore topic or a necessary prevention?

• One in five Russians believes in homeopathy

In the vastness of Russia

• Migrants compensate for 76% of natural population decline in Russia

• The life expectancy of Russians exceeds 73 years

• Nearly 25% of Russia's population will be over 65 by 2050

• The number of children born in Moscow has increased

• Regions will receive an additional 90 billion rubles to stimulate fertility

• In Russia in 2020, payouts for a first and second child will increase

• Ministry of Labor wants to change the conditions for paying childcare benefits

• In Russia, the share of the least affluent groups has slightly decreased

• In 2019, the combined wealth of the richest Russians increased by $30 billion

• Russia plans to launch rural mortgage in 2020

• Ministry of Labor not afraid of mass layoffs

• Has the number of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs decreased due to pension reform?

• Pre-pensioner retraining program will be evaluated by the number of those finding jobs

• Unemployed pre-pensioners will be able to retire earlier

• Trial issuing of electronic passports in Russia may begin on March 1, 2020

• State Duma tightens law on the organization of illegal migration

• In Russia, a need for Russian-speaking workers from Tajikistan

• Migrants owning property will be allowed to register foreigners

• The four republics of the North Caucasus have the lowest mortality rate of the working-age population in Russia

• Ministry of Health announces reduction in mortality from alcohol

• The leaders in the number of "drunk" crimes are Bashkiria and the Sverdlovsk region

• Drivers in Russia will be required to take test for chronic alcoholism

• Early-stage cancer being detected more often in Russia

• Traffic mortality has increased in 17 regions

• The number of suicides among adults has significantly decreased in Russia

• Medvedev demands that governors stop manipulating mortality statistics

• Half of the Russian population has chronic diseases

• The cost of a birth certificate will increase by 1,000 rubles

• Complete digitalization of the work of medical statisticians under way

• Skvortsova wants to increase the number of free places in Russian medical schools

• More than 50% of Russians are dissatisfied with the development of medicine in the country

• In Russia, sexual aggression against children on the rise

• The number of prisoners in the Russian Federation at all-time low

World news

• Latvia forecasts record low fertility

• Niger President unhappy over country’s rapid population growth

• Within 5 years Ukraine will have more pensioners than working persons

• Census to ask Ukrainians about labor migration

• Statistical Offices of Belarus and Russia share experience in conducting digital census

• Nobel Prize in Economics awarded for fighting poverty

• Norway, Switzerland and Finland top women’s safety ranking

• Almost 150,000 descendants of expelled Jews will receive Spanish citizenship

• Zimbabwean citizens cannot get passports due to lack of paper

• More than 1.5 million people have left Ukraine since the beginning of the year

• US resumes financial assistance to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala

• The number of emigrants from Moldova reaches one million people

• One in four migrants arriving in the EU is a minor

• More than a third of refugees will not return from Ukraine to Donbass after the war

• Estonia will not accept asylum seekers from Africa

• Has France “failed” to integrate migrants?

• 72,000 people become infected with HIV each year in Tanzania

• Northern Ireland decriminalizes abortion and allows same-sex marriage

• Regarding same-sex marriage, the population of Estonia is almost equally divided

• Over 10 years, the number of abortions has decreased by 6.5 times in Belarus

• Every year in Kazakhstan about 2,000 people fall ill with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

• G20 Health Ministers advocate for older working people

• Breast cancer in men is more likely to lead to death than in women

The newspapers write about…

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC and Znak on the May Decrees and national projects

• Pravoslavie.ru on preserving the nation

• RBK on childcare benefits

• EurasiaNet on decreased fertility

• Ekho Moskvy on infertility

• The Insider on child-trafficking

• IQ on problems of statistics

• Sputnik, Le Figaro, Die Welt, Aftonbladet, and NoonPost on the migration crisis

• Vechernyaya Moskva, REGNUM and Asharq Al-Awsat on migration to Russia

• Izvestia on attracting migrants to jobs in medicine

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on Chinese in the Far East

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on emigration from Russia

• EurasiaNet on Kazakhstani repatriates

• MIR24 on marriage traditions

• Rosbalt, Novye Izvestia and RBK on alcohol consumption

• RBK and Novaya Gazeta on a cancer center and oncologists

• Deutsche Welle on HIV

• Gazeta.Ru on the perception of death

• Novye Izvestia on mass medical exams

• Moskovskiy Komsomolets on obesity

• Komsomolskaya Pravda on nutrition

• Novye Izvestia and RBK on violence

• NOZh on the ethics of sex

• Forbes on the status of women

• Forbes on investing in healthcare

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC and RBK on poverty and income

• Belstat on the census in Belarus

• Komsomolskaya Pravda on the census in the DPR

Read books and magazines

• Ageing Europe. 2019 edition

• Health in the Republic of Tajikistan

• Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2017

• Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2018 (morbidity and mortality)

• The incidence of Russians with a first-time diagnosis in 2018

• Through the pages of the journals Problemy Sotsialnoy Gigieny, Zdravookhraneniya i Istorii Meditsiny (Problems of Social Hygiene, Health Care and the History of Medicine) and Vestnik MGU. Seriya 18. Sotsiologiya I Politologiya (MSU Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science)

• Contents of Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

• Demographic results of 2018. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Congratulations to Yevgeny Mikhailovich Andreev on his 75th birthday

•    Andreev’s countermove

•     Scientific publications of Yevgeny Mikhailovich Andreev: the last 10 years

• Happy birthday to Viktoria Ivanovna Sakevich

•     Scientific publications of V.I. Sakevich, 2001-2018