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Russian demographic barometer

Preliminary demographic results of 2019 in Russia (part II)

• According to preliminary data for 2019, Russia’s downward trend in the number of deaths continues, decreasing by 1.5% with the overall mortality rate dropping to 12.3‰

• The proportion of people dying before the age of 65 is decreasing, but still exceeds one third of all deaths in Russia

• Life expectancy at birth has exceeded 73 years

• In January-December 2019, mortality decreased from all the main classes of causes of death except for digestive diseases and neoplasms

• Mortality from external causes was the lowest since 1980 - 87 deaths per 100 thousand people

Q&A

• WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission: the well-being of future generations is at stake

• Gender images

• UN head calls himself a feminist

• Audit Chamber outlines problems of children's health in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• Ministry of Economic Development downgrades forecast for population growth in Russia

• In 2019 Chechnya and Ingushetia became leaders in population growth

• Migration decline in the Far East has dropped to a minimum in recent years

• Ministry of Labor reports failure to achieve planned fertility

• 6% of Russian men consider registration of a first marriage essential

• Authorities to spend 4.57 trillion rubles on implementation of Putin's instructions

• Putin signs law to expand maternity capital program

• More than 930,000 thousand families used maternity capital funds in 2019

• Large families cannot take advantage of mortgage benefits

• Budget savings from pension reform is over 21 billion rubles

• Have changes in the pension system not made it possible to achieve a decent standard of living?

• Ministry of Labor to tell Russians over 45 about the size of their pension

• Unmarried Russian women take out mortgages twice as often as single men

• Authorities propose to make single-industry towns more compact to cut costs

• Over 90% of retrained pre-pensioners have kept their jobs or found new ones

• Thousands of invalid entries found in “Mir” migration accounting system

• Government will propose to simplify acquisition of Russian citizenship for residents of 4 countries

• About 500,000 people received Russian citizenship in 2019

• Putin allows option of forcibly restricting the departure of specialists from the country

• Over 10 years in Russia the number of deaths in road accidents has decreased by a third

• The movement of people with HIV cannot be limited

• A third of Russians say domestic medicine won’t save them from coronavirus

• Disinfection regime to be reinforced in places with large concentrations of people

• Unregistered drugs will be allowed into Russia

• Ministry of Health disagrees with Audit Chamber on assessment of hospital buildings

• In Russia, doctors’ attitudes to patients must change

World news

• WHO raises global risk assessment for coronavirus

• More than 80% of those infected with coronavirus will recover

• Timeline for developing coronavirus vaccine announced

• WHO compares mortality from new coronavirus and flu

• IMF allocates $50 billion to countries in need to fight coronavirus

• Belstat unveils census results

• Depopulation - a challenge for the EU?

• Demographic situation in South Korea continues to deteriorate

• Riga's population may decline by 5.2% by 2030

• By 2030, senior citizens will constitute more than 21% of the population of Belarus

• Number of urban residents in Kazakhstan increased by 1.8% over the year

• In recent years, the birth rate of girls in Azerbaijan has been steadily decreasing

• In 2018 Belarus registered 60,000 marriages and 33,000 divorces

• Kirgizia to hold census at end of March

• Proposal in Sweden to increase pensions

• Norway the world’s best country to raise kids

• In Sweden, migrants at high risk of falling below the poverty line

• UK introduces point system for immigrants

• In US, new rules for issuing Green Cards come into effect

• Turkish authorities encourage migrants to leave the country

• UN calls on EU to help Greece deal with migrants

• In Kirgizia, almost 10,000 cases of HIV

• South African women with HIV forcibly sterilized

• IVF babies 45% more likely to die in first year

• After age 40 a person’s social skills begin to decline

The newspapers write about...

• RBC and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Russia's population decline

• Kommersant, Helsingin Sanomat, Radio Svoboda and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the maternity capital

• BY on maternity leave in Belarus

• Lenta.ru on migrants in Russia

• Kurier on emigration from Russia

• Cicero on new migration crisis in Europe

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC, Polit.Ru, and Novaya Gazeta on HIV

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC, Le Figaro, Nature and The Guardian on coronavirus

• La Jornada, Atlantico and Carnegie Moscow Center on the consequences of coronavirus

• ABC.es on the black plague

• Pravda.ru on Russian hospitals

• Vzglyad on British healthcare

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on gender relations in Japan

• Mediapart on the demographic problems of Ukraine

• Komsomolskaya Pravda on longevity

• Le Monde and The Times on LGBT

• Open Democracy on domestic violence

• State,fr on depression

• Kupredu do minulosti on human evolution

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on stores without sales clerks

• Vedomosti on the future labor market

• Izvestia on single-industry towns

• Kommersant on the cost of living

• Fontanka.ru on the population of St. Petersburg

Read books and magazines

• International Migration Report 2019

• Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2018

• Natural movement of the population of Ukraine for 2018

• Internal migration as a resource for Russia's development: socio-economic effects, costs and limitations

• Regions of Russia. Socio-economic 2019

• Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Mirovaya Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations)

• Contents of the journal Demography

Profession: researcher

• Large families in Moscow. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Inequality in infant mortality among the population of modern Russia. Scientific Seminar “Modern Demography” of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, HSE

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