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World Demographic Barometer

World population ageing according to UN 2019 estimates

• Global aging of the population is accelerating - the share of the world's population 65 years and older has increased from 6% in 1990 to 9% in 2019, and by 2050 it will increase to 16%, according to medium variant of UN forecast

• The elderly population is rapidly aging - the proportion of people over 80 has increased to 20% of the population 65 years and older, versus 11% in the middle of the last century

• At current mortality, more than 76% of newborns will live to the age of 65; life expectancy at the age of 65 exceeds 17 years

• Potential support for the elderly is declining, but in different ways in terms of chronological and prospective age

Take care of women!

• HIV / AIDS in Europe 2018

• UNAIDS spokesperson: timely HIV treatment makes it possible to live a full and long life

• Ministry of Health Information for World AIDS Day

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population decline in Russia in January - September came to 236,900 people

• In the Far East, only Yakutia is not losing population

• Rosstat plans to conduct census of up to 20% of the population via Internet

• Topilin calls on regions of the North Caucasus Federal District to follow the example of Karachay-Cherkessia in fertility

• Financial incentives for fertility are ineffective

• Payments of 50 rubles for childcare have been canceled

• Almost one in ten Russians intends to remain childless

• One in ten families with children is large

• The number of large families in Moscow has doubled

• 380,000 children are brought up in foster families

• Putin calls income increase modest

• World Bank estimates the wealth of the average Russian

• Average pension in Russia is 14,205 rubles

• Ministry of Labor has questions concerning new pension savings system

• Divorced parents will be obliged to provide housing for their children

• The best Russian city in terms of quality of life is Kazan

• Putin declares unemployment rate the lowest in modern Russian history

• State Duma adopts law on introduction of electronic work-record books

• Even employers with a shortage of personnel don’t want to hire pre-pensioners

• Russian citizenship being given one and a half times more often

• More than a million people living with HIV in Russia

• 32 billion rubles allocated to fight HIV in 2020

• Only a third of those with HIV in Russia receive full therapy

• Ministry of Health has prepared a bill against HIV dissent

• Suicide mortality in children has more than halved

• The number of abortions in Russia since the beginning of the 21st century has decreased threefold

• The highest mortality from diseases of the circulatory system is in the Pskov region

• Traffic police predicts increase in mortality on Russian roads

• Russians spend record amounts on medicines

• Justice Ministry recognizes futility of fines in the fight against domestic violence

World news

• By 2070, a third of the Czech population will live in Prague and its environs

• Life expectancy declines in the US

• Over last 10 years, the number of births in Italy has fallen by a quarter

• Fertility continues to fall in South Korea

• Italians marrying more often, but later

• About a third of children in Italy are born out of wedlock

• The idea of ​​polygamy is losing its relevance in the Arab world

• By 2050, there will be two people of working age for every pensioner in Lithuania

• The proportion of foreign citizens in Italy has exceeded 10%

• Electronic census of Ukraine will be held before the end of 2019

• Ukrainian demographers criticize government census plan

• Head of European Commission considers migration inevitable

• Ethiopian authorities report on successful repatriation of 32,500 citizens

• Swedish Prime Minister acknowledges problems with migrant integration

• Is the declining well-being of Swedish taxpayers caused by migrant problems?

• Sweden discusses new rules for receiving migrants

• Quotas for foreign specialists in Kazakhstan plan to be halved

• The largest recipients of remittances are India, China and Mexico

• EU has from 3.9 to 4.8 million illegal migrants

• France overtakes Germany in the number of asylum requests

• The flow of illegal migrants from Libya to the EU has risen sharply

• Most refugees die en route to the Mediterranean

• Only a quarter of illegal migrants in the EU pay taxes

• More than 41,000 persons with HIV in Uzbekistan

• Tanzania tries out HIV self-testing

• In Belarus, death rate from suicide is 7 times higher than from murder

• Japanese company develops blood test to diagnose 13 cancer types from a drop of blood

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant and REGNUM on the national projects

• Argumenty i Fakty, Vechernyaya Moskva and Izvestia on fertility

• Forbes, Metro, Gazeta.Ru and Le Figaro on motherhood

• News.ru and Life on marriage and family

• Izvestia on abortions

• Der Spiegel on life expectancy

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on New Year's drinking

• Project Syndicate, Izvestia, Obzor, IQ and Gazeta.Ru on HIV

• Novaya Gazeta, Sibir.Realii, and TASS on domestic violence

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on the flu

• Moskovsky Komsomolets, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and The Village on medicines

• Die Zeit on mental illness

• Idel.Realii on health certificates for the DMV

• RBK on illegal cigarettes

• Russkaya Germaniya and The Economist on the migration crisis

• Ekonomika Sevodnya on migration policy

• RBK on human capital

• Kuzbass on historical demography

• Fenix on the population of Russia and the USSR

• REGNUM on the problems of the Russian North

• Gazeta.Ru on pensions

• Deutschlandfunk and The Guardian on traditional values

• Project Syndicate on gender inequality

• Gazeta.Ru on men and women

Read books and magazines

• World Population Ageing 2019

• Health at a glance 2019

• “The suburban revolution” in a regional context: peripheral urban areas in the post-Soviet space

• HIV/AIDs surveillance in Europe 2019

• Total morbidity of the adult population of Russia in 2018

• Through the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Obshchestvo i Ekonomika (Society and Economics)

• Contents of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Profession: researcher

• Happy 70^th birthday to Alexander Ivanovich Alekseev