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Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results for the first half of 2020 in Russia (part I)

  • Population decline in the first half of the year is recorded for the fourth year in a row; in 2020 it increased 3.3 times compared to the same period in 2019

  • Natural decline continued to grow in January-June 2020, with reduced migration growth compensating for it by only 18%

  • According to estimates at the beginning of 2020, one in two residents of Russia is over 40 years old.

  • In January-June 2020, the number of children born continued to decline, decreasing by 5.4% compared to the same period in 2019

  • The number of marriages registered in January-June 2020 decreased by 25%, divorces - by 26%

September 10, 2020 - World Suicide Prevention Day

  • · Suicide prevention in Slovenia: a demographer's perspective

Q&A

  • Employment

  • Russian opinions about family relationships

  • Love not of convenience, or about marriages between people from different social milieus

  • Nearly one in four Russians believes that youth lasts up to age 35

  • More than half of Russians support tougher rules for issuing work visas to migrants

In the vastness of Russia

  • Putin notes decline in the population of Russia

  • Only migration is maintaining Russia’s population

  • Russian regions with strong Islamic traditions are not facing population decline

  • In 2019 the months with the greatest number of births were July, August and January

  • Mortality in St. Petersburg by the main classes of causes increased by 14%

  • Putin demands monitoring of increase in life expectancy in the Far Eastern Federal District

  • Russian government will increase funding for the national project "Demography"

  • Are the chances of surviving until retirement decreasing in Russia?

  • Audit Chamber reveals underpayment of pensions and payments to "dead souls"

  • Has the number of divorces in Russia increased since the end of lockdown?

  • More than 680 thousand families have received maternity capital in 2020

  • 34 billion rubles allocated for payments to families with children from three to seven years old

  • Moscow authorities consider unemployment rate in the city very low

  • Russia plans to join the International Organization for Migration

  • A new platform for registering migrants is being created in Russia

  • In 2021, the Concept for Reducing Alcohol Consumption by 2030 should be approved

  • 80% of deaths from coronavirus in Russia have been among those over 65

  • Do people who have recovered from COVID-19 develop an unstable immunity to the disease?

  • Ministry of Health explains who could get reinfected with coronavirus

  • Only 55% of Russians are ready to be vaccinated against coronavirus

  • Government and regional authorities will engage in abortion prevention

  • Children's cancer incidence has increased in Russia over the past 5 years

  • Russians starting to get seriously ill after age 60

  • Doctor-epidemiologists will appear in every state clinic

  • Additional 24 billion rubles for salaries of doctors and social workers

World news

  • Uzbekistan to hold census in November 2022

  • 50% of South Korea's population lives in and around the capital

  • South Korea registers record low total fertility rate

  • Head of the World Food Program declares risk of hunger

  • Swedish authorities extend ban on entry of non-EU residents

  • Most Italians are unhappy with illegal migration

  • Migrants transferred about a billion dollars from Russia to Kirgizia over six-month period

  • HIV slowing down in Georgia

  • Kirgiz authorities promise compensation for hospital patients with HIV and AIDS

  • WHO urges to maintain restrictions during pandemic

  • Will the coronavirus become more dangerous and infectious in winter?

  • People must learn to live with coronavirus

  • Europe predicts increase in deaths from coronavirus

  • c· WHO does not recommend that children under 5 wear masks

  • Is the 2-meter social distancing rule obsolete?

  • WHO special envoy cites Swedish COVID-19 strategy as an example

  • Obesity increases the risk of death from COVID-19 by almost one and a half times

  • After floods and Covid, Chinese people urged to eat in moderation

  • Half of the world's population will suffer from myopia by 2050

  • US to withdraw from WHO in July 2021

  • All Swedish teachers will be introduced to the topic of sex education for students

The newspapers write about…

  • Komsomolskaya Pravda and Vzglyad on the demographic situation in Russia

  • RBK and Moskovsky Komsomolets on Russia’s population forecast

  • Covid19.fom.ru on coronavirus in Russia

  • Der Spiegel and BuzzFeed on coronavirus in the US

  • Dagens Nyheter on coronavirus in Sweden

  • Nature, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Rebelion on a vaccine against coronavirus

  • Russkaya sluzhba BBC on foreign students trapped abroad

  • Valeurs Actuelles on the control of endemic diseases

  • Izvestia on the demographic situation in Latvia

  • Project Syndicate on healthy life expectancy

  • Meduza on drug activism

  • Kommersant on the registration of migrants

  • Izvestia on the increase in the number of divorces

  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on draft bills concerning the family

  • Die Welt on the sexual revolution

Read books and magazines

  • World Population 2020

  • European Tobacco Trends Report 2019

  • Norway. Health systems in transition

  • Population migration and the formation of labor resources in the USSR and the post-Soviet space: trends and regulation

  • Rural healthcare in Russia in 2019

  • Through the pages of the magazines Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya (Social Aspects of Population Health) and Problemy prognozirovaniya (Problems of Forecasting)

  • Contents of the journal Population and Environment

Profession: researcher

  • 185th anniversary of the birth of Yuliy Eduardovich Janson

  • o A.A. Kaufman. Yu.E. Janson

Satirical column

  • “Vzglyad” and Something

 
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