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Demographic barometer

• Demographic results for the first half of 2022 in Russia. Part 2
  • In the first half of 2022, 1,019 thousand people died, which is 7% less than in the same period of 2021
  • Life expectancy at birth fell another 1.5 years in 2021, back to 70 years
  • In 2021, mortality from diseases of the respiratory and digestive organs continued to rise; mortality from COVID-19 increased by a factor of 3.2
  • More than 90% of those who died from certain infectious and parasitic diseases and 78% of those who died from external causes did not reach the age of 65, among those who died from COVID-19 - 25%
  • The decline in infant mortality has slowed down; according to the results of the first half of 2022, it is 4.4‰ in annual terms
  • The number of deaths diagnosed with COVID-19 decreased in January-July 2022 by 30% compared to the same period in 2021

Scientific Digest

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

Q&A

• Pandemic lessons: 70% of Russians are ready to wear medical masks for cold symptoms in public places
• Большинство россиян - за то, чтобы награждать матерей-героинь, но в отношении запрета пропаганды идей чайлдфри мнения разделились
• Россия без Шенгена
• Ненакопительный эффект, или россияне о пенсионных сбережениях

In the vastness of Russia

• Child mortality in Russia has decreased by 12% over the past three years
• Cardiovascular deaths in 2021 reduced average life expectancy by 5.8 years
• The number of marriages in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast has increased due to mobilization
• The mobilized in Moscow can get married on the day of application
• Yakutia to extend regional fertility support program for a year
• Amount of maternity capital for a second child in 2023 will grow to 780 thousand rubles
• 30 million rubles to be allocated for payments for "family" awards
• Far East again records population outflow in first half of year
• 12% of Russians intend to get a foreign travel passport in near future
• Federation Council approves law on Russian citizenship for foreigners signing contracts to serve in Russian Armed Forces
• From September 21-25, 38.3 thousand Russians entered Finland through Vyborg customs alone
• About 80,000 Russians entered Georgia from 17 to 26 September
• Dozens of Russian citizens have requested asylum in Finland
• Information about the need for foreign students to leave the Russian Federation is false
• Sakharov Migration Center will create base for admission of foreigners to military service in Russia
• Mortality from coronavirus in Russia may rise to 200 cases per day
• Russia will fight illegal tobacco according to WHO standards
• Incidence of tuberculosis in the Russian Federation has decreased threefold
• Half of Russians consider old age to be the emergence of health problems
• Murashko calls for decriminalization of medical practice

World News

• Australia's population has grown by almost 1% over year
• Italy's population will drop to 57.9 million by 2030
• In Japan, the proportion of the population over 75 years old surpasses 15% for first time
• The share of the elderly population in China may surpass 30% by 2035
• Switzerland approves raising retirement age for women to 65
• Cubans vote to legalize same-sex marriage
• Belarus prepares law allowing deprivation of citizenship
• US to resume immigrant visa process in Havana
• Since February 24, 6.4 million people have entered Poland from Ukraine, while 4.6 million have returned
• Kazakhstan announces creation of "Kazakh card"
• France to propose new rules for accepting refugees in 2023
• Czech Republic returns border control with Slovakia
• In US, over 1.7 million illegal immigrants detained at Mexican border in past year
• Number of refugees in Canada reaches six-year high
• The number of deaths from covid in the world has exceeded 6.5 million
• Consequences of covid will be among the leading causes of death in the US for many years to come
• WHO urges world to prepare for new strain of coronavirus
• Indian Supreme Court upholds equal right of all women to abortion

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on the impact of mobilization on the labor market
• RBK on the desire to emigrate among schoolchildren
• Forbes on refugee status in various countries
• The Lancet and Izvestia on the consequences of COVID-19
• Izvestia on increasing benefits for pregnant women
• Novye Izvestia on the prohibition of childfree propaganda
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the register of bone marrow donors
• Kommersant on voluntary insurance for the self-employed
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the age of maximum intelligence

Read books and magazines

• Statistical annex of the 2021 annual report on migration and asylum
• Global reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health policy survey
• Guidelines for measuring international migration using population censuses
• Demographic and family transition in Southeast Asia
• Population of Azerbaijan 2021
• Through the pages of the journals Voprosy Statistiki (Issues of Statistics) and Uroven’ zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii (Standard of Living of the Population of Russian Regions)
• Contents of the magazine Population

Profession: researcher

• Differences in excess mortality in Germany’s regions during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of reported morbidity and socio-economic characteristics of the regions. Seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research
• Analysis of Mortality and Population Health using R. Autumn School of the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research