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Demographic barometer

• Fertility policy from UN surveys, 2021
  • The number of countries with some kind of fertility policy has increased markedly over the past half century
  • In a number of countries fertility has not ensured simple reproduction of the population for decades; in others, despite a decline, it remains high.
  • In countries with high fertility, policies are most often aimed at reducing it, in countries with low fertility - at increasing it.
  • Key measures: support for family planning or support for families with children
  • Fertility at ages 15-19 is a concern in 86% of countries
  • Fertility reduction policies are effective in many countries; countries with extremely low fertility are forced to adapt to aging and declining populations

Q&A

• The involvement of men in household chores has increased over 10 years
• Adopted children and their new parents
• Termination of pregnancy: for, against and the role of the state
• The issue of the right to abortion is back on the agenda in the US
• One in two Russians welcomes possibility of buying a domestic car with maternity capital

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of young Russians aged 20-39 will decrease by 6.6 million by 2030
• Do world oil prices affect fertility in Russia?
• Only 11% of Russians regularly save for retirement
• Half of Russians over 60 do not use the Internet
• All Russian universities excluded from Bologna Process
• Undergraduate and graduate programs to be cut
• Russia to again award honorary title "Heroine Mother"
• Unemployment in April at lowest level since 1991
• The number of officially registered unemployed increased in May
• A third of Russians are afraid of losing their jobs
• Duma allows registration of children at parents’ place of residence
• Bill on citizenship of Russian Federation for children living abroad is submitted to State Duma
• State Duma introduces unlimited residence permit for specialists and members of their families
• Payments to refugees in Russia exceed three billion rubles
• Ministry of Health takes up problem of sudden deaths at working age
• Number of smokers in Russia has decreased to 20%
• Share of smokers in Russia remains too high
• Russia accounts for 96% of illegal cigarette consumption in EAEU
• 13% of Russians are categorically against abortion
• 1,000 test-system kits for the detection of monkey pox will be delivered to the regions of Russia
• Most Russians are against buying cars without airbags

World News

• In 2021, the number of children born in Latvia was lowest in entire history of observations
• Fertility in Japan hits another record low
• Every sixth child in Kyrgyzstan is born out of wedlock
• Iran and Iraq to gradually introduce visa-free regime
• Advisor to head of Ukraine Ministry of Internal Affairs: about 60% of Ukrainians have returned to country after leaving due to military operation
• Have 2 million refugees from Ukraine decided to stay in Poland?
• Poland has not received funds promised by EU for refugees from Ukraine
• In Kyiv, a proposal to let men of military age out of Ukraine in exchange for insurance payment
• Turkey sends over 18,000 refugees to Afghanistan
• Kirgiz government wants to open branches of state-owned banks in Russia
• Every fourth household in Kyrgyzstan has a labor migrant
• Global Covid death rate at lowest level since spring of 2020
• More than two-thirds of world's population have antibodies against COVID-19
• WHO sees no need for mass vaccination against monkeypox
• Acute hepatitis found in children in 33 countries
• Bill Gates warns of possibility of new pandemic in next 20 years
• Ukraine government supports legalization of medical cannabis
• In Japan, cleaning robot created that uses elevator

The newspapers write about…

• RBK and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on decline in labor force size
• RBK on fear of losing one’s job
• TASS on mortality from coronavirus
• TASS on traffic accident mortality
• Izvestia on economic inequality
• The Times on link between alcohol consumption and quality of life
• RBK on outflow of IT specialists
• EurasiaNet on migration from Central Asia to Russia
• TASS on consequences of Japan's aging population
• TASS on factors of increasing fertility
• Izvestiya on psychological infertility

Read books and magazines

• WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2025
• United Kingdom. Health Systems in Transition
• Alleviating the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants and their communities in the Russian Federation and Central Asia: the role of digital remittances
• Analysis of the Demographic Situation in Kyrgyzstan: Update 2020
• Elderly Statistics, 2020
• Through the pages of the journals Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Mirovaya Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodniye Otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations)
• Contents of the Journal of Marriage and Family

Profession: researcher

• 90 years since the birth of Boris Sergeevich Khorev
• Khorev B.S. On the demographic problems of cities and some ways to solve them
• Khorev B.S. The role of circular migration in the relationship between urban and rural settlement and the main challenges of its regulation
• Congratulations to Alexey Shchur on a successful dissertation defense!