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World demographic barometer

International migration according to UN estimates for 2019

• The total number of international migrants has risen to 272 million

• The number of refugees in the world has increased to 29 million people

• The United States remains the undisputed leader in the number of international migrants - almost 51 million people in mid-2019

• The greatest number of migrants come from India - 17.5 million people

• The share of working-age people among international migrants is growing - in 2019, three out of four were between the ages of 20 and 65

Q&A

• A decent pension, according to Russians, is 40 thousand rubles a month

• Wanderlust: what for and why?

• Ideas about modern medicine

• Russian schoolchildren: political, sexual and career preferences

In the vastness of Russia

• Audit Chamber doubts that natural population growth can be achieved

• The Kremlin is aware of the reduction in Russia's population

• The proportion of women in the population of Russia is 53.77%

• Rosstat estimates for the first time the healthy life expectancy of Russians

• The level of maternal and infant mortality in the Russian Federation has decreased markedly

• 2020 census will go online

• 70% of families with children will receive additional payments starting in 2020

• Russians are concerned about growing social injustice

• The number of children in orphanages has decreased by 46% over four years

• New law will simplify division of property between spouses

• Shorter workday for villagers

• Artificial intelligence will increase the number of jobs in Russia

• Up to 80% of Russian managers and entrepreneurs work on vacation

• Russian passport rises to record rating in world

• Governors will receive the right to approve a list of professions to which migrants will not be allowed

• Migrants have begun demanding higher salaries than Russians

• Russia remains among world’s ten most heavily drinking countries

• State Duma proposes setting minimum prices for cigarettes

• The main causes of road deaths in Russia are drunk driving and using cell phones behind the wheel.

• Incidence of diabetes among children has increased in Russia

• Doctors will be paid extra for early cancer detection

• Foreign patients coming to Russia more often for medical care

• Bill introduced in State Duma on manufacturing drugs without the consent of the patent holder

World news

• Men in the EU live an average of 5.4 years less than women

• Latvia has the lowest life expectancy of all OECD countries

• The average age of a resident of Latvia is 44 years.

• Iranians getting married less often and divorced more often

• Can the cost of the Ukraine census be cut?

• EU Council announces readiness to simplify visa regime with Belarus

• Swedish Prime Minister criticized for migration policy

• Britain may tighten migration legislation

• Over 1 million ethnic Kazakhs have arrived in Kazakhstan since 1991

• In the 1990s the outflow of Ukrainians from the country was incomparably higher than now

• Half a million people have emigrated from Macedonia over last 15 years

• The number of emigrants from Georgia to Russia is 450,000 people

• Employment conditions eased for qualified migrants in Germany

• Every seventh foreign doctor in Poland is from Belarus

• Germany is the most popular labor migration destination.

• Labor migrants from Tajikistan will be recruited to Russia through organizational recruitment

• Russia does not want to remove restrictions on remittances from Kyrgyz migrants

• In 2018, 4,566 Georgian citizens were deported from abroad

• Science refutes myths about mass morbidity of migrants

• In Kirgizia, over 2,000 people have died from HIV and AIDS since the country gained independence

• Tanzania reduces age of self-testing for HIV

• Lithuania ranks first in the world in terms of alcohol consumption per capita

• Germany passes measles vaccination law

The newspapers write about…

• News.ru, Moskovsky Komsomolets and RBK on the May decrees

• Izvestia and REGNUM on stimulating fertility

• Sohu and RIA Novosti on demographic issues

• Svobodnaya Pressa on pension reform

• Izvestia on gender imbalance

• Dagens Nyheter on the migration crisis

• REGNUM on the labor market and migrants

• RBC and EurasiaNet on emergency doctors

• Gazeta.Ru and Delovaya Stolitsa on the health of millennials

• News.ru on alcohol consumption

• Vechernyaya Moskva on HIV

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on cancer

• DELFI on preventable deaths

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on nutrition

• Vechernyaya Moskva, Le Monde Diplomatique and Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on domestic violence

• REGNUM and Slate.fr on parenthood

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on social orphans

• Gazeta.Ru on office romance

• Le Figaro on sex

• Gazeta.Ru on shelters for the divorced

• N+1 on inequality

• TUT.BY on poverty

• Fontanka.ru on the refusal to reimburse mortgages

• Dagens Nyheter and Advance on small ethnic groups

• N+1 on editing DNA

• Le Monde on racism

• Der Spiegel on countries dangerous for tourists

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on media images and demography

Read books and magazines

• International Migration Outlook 2019

• Finland. Health Systems in Transition

• Human biosocial development. Demographic and social transitions

• Demographic Yearbook of Kazakhstan

• Morbidity of the adult population of Russia in 2018 with a first-time diagnosis

• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Vrach (Doctor)

• Content of the journal Studies in Family Planning

Profession: researcher

• “Demographic trends in Russia: legacy of the Soviet era or a new turn?” International Conference of the International Laboratory for the Study of Population and Health and of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics

• Suburban revolution in a regional context: peripheral urban areas in post-Soviet space. International Conference in Ulan-Ude

• Increasing targeted social support for low-income families with children. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences