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Demographic barometer

• Demographic results for the first half of 2022 in Russia. Part 1
  • Population decline in the first half of the year is observed for the sixth year in a row; in 2022 it increased by 1.5 times compared to the same period in 2021
  • Intensity of natural decline decreased slightly in January-June 2022, but was reinforced by migration outflow
  • According to estimates at the beginning of 2022, children under the age of 15 make up 17.7% of the Russian population, people 65 and older - 16.0%
  • In first half of 2022 the number of births decreased by 6.3%
  • Total fertility in last three years remains at 1.5 children per woman
  • The number of registered marriages in January-June 2022 increased by 0.2%, divorces by 3.3%

Scientific Digest

• Pavel Polyan. Kyiv without Jews: the demography of Babi Yar

Q&A

• To be fulfilled in life means to create a family and do what you love.
• Start earning at 18, leave home at 20, have children at 25
• Coronavirus and vaccination
• Health and a healthy lifestyle in the assessment of Belarusians
• Travel abroad
• Restrictions on issuance of Schengen visas will not affect plans of most Russians

In the vastness of Russia

• Chechnya leads in fertility and infant mortality rates in Russia
• Chechnya denies having highest infant mortality
• Ministry of Labor calls for supporting birth of first child to stimulate large families
• Yakutia pays 100 thousand rubles for birth of "anniversary" children
• State Duma submits bill banning ideology of "childfree"
• Only 19 regions pay couples for long-term marriage
• At least 40% of Russian families cannot even get a preferential mortgage
• State Duma fights for right of parents with many children to become reservists
• Have over 4.1 million refugees arrived in Russia from the territory of Ukraine and Donbass?
• Draft law on simplification of obtaining SNILS for migrants submitted to State Duma
• The number of Russians with alcohol addiction estimated at 1.2 million
• Alcohol consumption has fallen by almost 43% since 2008
• Ministry of Health plans to reduce alcohol consumption by 15% in 8 years
• Incidence of Covid in Russia growing for 11th straight week
• Ginzburg calls for Covid booster shots
• Flu vaccination prevents patients from dying
• Federal register of bone marrow donors created in Russia
• Removing abortions from compulsory health insurance system will lead to an increase in maternal mortality
• The number of "medical" abortions has decreased in Russia
• Risk of infertility increases rapidly after age 30
• Regions are advised to regulate doctors' salaries themselves

World News

• Population of Kyrgyzstan has grown to almost 7 million people
• Percentage of people over 60 has exceeded 20% in 13 provinces of China
• Belarus has not published mortality data for two years
• China records lowest marriage rate in 35 years
• Record number of young Japanese do not want to get married
• During the intercensal period, the number of families in Estonia decreased by 5%
• Christianity may cease to be main religion of United States by 2070
• Afghanistan seeks money for census
• Germany's working-age population will start to shrink
• Over 6,000 Russians have received Georgian citizenship since 2018
• Australia to increase migrant worker quota
• One in five foreigners in South Korea is illegal
• The number of slaves in the world from 2016 to 2021 increased by 2.7 million people
• The number of cases of COVID-19 in the world has exceeded 606 million
• Mortality from COVID-19 has decreased by 80%
• One third of people in WHO European Region are still unvaccinated
• WHO head announces imminent end of COVID-19 pandemic
• US aims to reduce cancer mortality by 50% in 25 years

The newspapers write about…

• RIA Novosti on world population
• Polit.ru on life expectancy and health of the elderly
• Esli byt’ tochnym on emigration from Russia
• Financial Times on the consequences of COVID-19
• Izvestia on the need for vaccination against COVID-19
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on progress in healthcare in China
• Vedomosti on pension savings
• Izvestia on the level of poverty in Russia
• Kommersant on a shortage of specialists
• Le Figaro on youth crime in France
• The Atlantic on the problem of kindergartens in the USA

Read books and magazines

• Global Tuberculosis Report 2021: Supplementary Material
• The Contribution of Migration to Regional Development
• Guide to National Transfer Accounts
• Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2021 Global Monitoring Report
• Brief summary. Results of the 2021 national population census in the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Through the pages of the journals Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya (Social aspects of public health) and Zdorovye, demografiya, ekologiya finno-ugorskikh narodov (Health, demography, ecology of the Finno-Ugric peoples)
• Contents of the magazine Population & Societes

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