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Demographic barometer

• Mortality in the EU-27, preliminary estimates 2021-2022
  • In 2020, the number of deaths in the EU-27 was almost 5.2 million (11.6 per 1000 people), in 2021 it approached 5.3 million people (11.8‰)
  • Excess death toll in 31 EU-27 and EFTA countries exceeds 1.3 million in two years of COVID-19 pandemic
  • Peaks of excess mortality in the EU-27 and EFTA countries reached different levels and at different times
  • Life expectancy at birth decreased in the EU-27 for 2020-2021 by 1.2 years to 80.1 years
  • Life expectancy at age 65 fell by 0.9 years in the EU-27 in 2020-2021 to 19.3 years

Q&A

• A healthy lifestyle and how to stick to it
• Russians have begun smoking more
• For Russians, the most undesirable spouse is a police officer. 9% of husbands and 8% of wives are dissatisfied with the professions of their other half
• Religious ideas of Russians
• Will, reason or secret forces: what rules the world?
• A third of Americans believe the pandemic is over

Population census 2020

• Preliminary results of All-Russian population census
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta publishes preliminary results of All-Russian population census
• Rosstat announces emergence of four new million-plus cities in Russia
• Rosstat: four more million-plus cities have appeared in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• 7 million more senior citizens in Russia over next 15 years
• Life expectancy of Russians down 2.8–3.7 years due to pandemic
• Russia to increase pension size for non-working pensioners
• Ministry of Education and Science announces plan to abandon Bologna system
• Number of registered unemployed persons up by four thousand
• Putin simplifies acquisition of Russian citizenship for residents of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions
• In Russia, the number of bans on the entry of foreigners has decreased
• Ministry of Internal Affairs lifts restrictions on entry into Russia for 3,000 citizens of Ukraine and Donbass
• Ministry of Education and Science temporarily simplifies Russian language exam for foreigners
• Two-thirds of HIV patients did not receive medication in 2021
• Ministry of Health announces need for additional measures to reduce alcohol consumption in Russia
• Vodka sales in Russia grew by 7.1% in January-April
• Ministry of Internal Affairs makes portrait of drunk driver
• Ministry of Health announces no more problems with drugs for epilepsy and thyroid diseases
• Moscow becomes record holder for thyroid diseases in Russia
• Russian Foreign Ministry assures that Russia will not leave WHO
• Covid amnesty announced in Moscow

World news

• Number of refugees worldwide has risen to 100 million for the first time in history
• Number of victims among the civilian population of Ukraine exceeds eight thousand
• Italy's population could fall to 54 million by 2050
• By 2030, the working-age population of South Korea will shrink by 35%
• WHO announces reduction in global life expectancy
• China vows to increase life expectancy by one year
• Japan creates Agency for Children's Affairs
• Is Ukraine facing a demographic crisis?
• UN predicts increase in global number of people at risk of hunger
• Almost 38 million people in world live with HIV
• Number of people infected with coronavirus in the world surpasses 520 million
• Rate of spread of COVID-19 in the world increases for the first time since the end of March
• More than three million people in North Korea fall ill with "fever"
• More than 1 million people in the US have died from the effects of COVID-19
• Average age of deaths from COVID-19 in Australia is 83.9 years
• Academician Pokrovsky fears spread of cholera in Ukraine conflict zone

The newspapers write about…

• The Guardian on the risk of global hunger
• Expert on global demographic trends
• Onet.pl on Ukrainian refugees in Poland
• RBK on Russians who stayed and those who returned
• Kommersant on the organized recruitment of migrants from Uzbekistan
• Kommersant on the risks of unemployment
• Izvestia on proposal to use maternity capital to buy a car
• Belta on encouraging fertility in Belarus
• Izvestia on indexation of minimum wage and pensions
• RIA Novosti on coronavirus in North Korea
• Project Syndicate on China's covid-19 zero tolerance policy
• Kommersant on upcoming amendments to law on immunoprophylaxis for children and pregnant women
• Kommersant on abortion tours

Read books and magazines

• Global health spending: weathering the storm
• WHO European Regional Obesity Report, 2022
• Study of labor mobility in the Central Asia - Russian Federation migration corridor
• Gender and migration data: handbook on evidence-based and gender-sensitive migration management
• Demographic situation in Georgia 2020
• Through the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Health care of the Russian Federation) and Ekonomicheskoye razvitiye Rossii (Economic development of Russia)
• Contents of the Journal of Demographic Economics

Profession: researcher

• Young scientists about topical problems of demographic science. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences