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Demographic barometer

• International migrants and their children in the population of the European Union, 2021
  • At the beginning of 2021, 5.3% of the population of the EU-27 were citizens of countries outside the union, 8.4% were born outside it
  • One in five people aged 15-74 living in private households was born abroad or at least one of their parents was born abroad
  • Among natives of other countries, those born outside the EU-27 predominate, 41% of those born abroad have citizenship of the country of residence
  • 52% of those born abroad had both parents born outside the EU-27
  • The proportion of young people aged 15-29 among those born abroad is 17%, and among the children of international migrants - 40%
  • More than half of the natives of other countries live in small towns and suburbs
  • 62% of natives of other countries have a good command of the language of their country of residence

Q&A

• Combining work and childcare
• Russians have begun seeking online consultations with doctors more often
• Road accidents: causes, consequences, prevention
• Russians’ view of the labor market: losing their job is unlikely, but the possibility of finding a new job seems doubtful
• Dream pension is 2.5 times higher than the average real pension in the country

In the vastness of Russia

• According to head of Ministry of Health, increasing fertility requires only women’s desire
• Is it necessary to encourage marriage to increase fertility?
• Russian women say creation of a nest egg is one of main conditions for having a child
• Murashko predicts overfulfillment of plan to increase life expectancy in Russia by the end of the year
• In 2022, Muscovites most often became mothers for the first time at the age of 27
• Spending on supporting families with children has increased by 20% over the past three years
• 6 million foreigners in Russia
• 77% of migrants come to Russia to find a job
• More than 10,000 children with HIV infection registered in Russia
• Average Russian who died of covid could have lived another 14 years
• Russia registers its first foreign drug for prevention and treatment of COVID-19
• Over the past 10 years, the number of deaths from diabetes has increased fivefold
• At least 19 million people in Russia have hearing and vision problems
• The number of free IVF procedures will grow by 18% in 2023
• Almost one in three Russians resorts to the services of private clinics
• 72% of Russians have never consulted a psychologist or psychotherapist
• Russia to increase the number of state-funded places at medical universities
• State Duma adopts law on fines for LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and gender reassignment
• State Duma intends to ban surrogate motherhood for foreigners

World news

• The number of refugees from Ukraine has grown to 7.9 million people
• Protests end in Bolivia over census postponement
• Economy of post-Soviet countries is growing thanks to Russian emigrants
• Olaf Scholz calls for simplification of granting citizenship to migrants
• Sweden may cancel permanent residence permits
• China simplifies rules for issuing visas to Russians
• United States looking for a replacement for Poland for issuing immigrant visas to Russians
• UK annual net migration rises to half a million
• European Commission has presented a new Mediterranean plan for migration
• Only half of the world's children with HIV receive treatment
• Incidence of covid in the world declining for third month in a row
• Next strain of coronavirus could be more dangerous
• Air pollution kills over 200,000 Europeans every year
• Due to energy crisis, deaths in Europe could rise by 4.8%
• Brazil records record number of dengue deaths
• Death toll from cholera in Haiti tops 200
• WHO to rename monkeypox to MPOX

The newspapers write about…

• Sobaka.ru on 8 billion inhabitants of the Earth
• RIA Novosti on rating of cities
• Kommersant on the labor market after mobilization
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Kommersant on the demand for labor migrants and their registration
• RBK on the impact of Russian emigration on the economy of Kazakhstan
• RBK on increasing demand for learning foreign languages
• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on Canada's migration policy
• Novye Izvestia on unified child allowance
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on single households
• RIA Novosti on mortality from diabetes
• Kommersant on the number of people living with HIV
• Kommersant on Russians’ awareness of HIV
• Novye Izvestia on the intention to ban abortions under the compulsory medical insurance policy
• Kommersant on the cost of death from accidents at work
• RBK on satisfaction with mandatory health program
• Kommersant on sanitation problems
• El Pais and RIA Novosti on decreased sperm quality in men

Read books and magazines

• 2021 United Nations Demographic Yearbook
• Monitoring of indicators of the quality of life of the population in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States 2018-2021
• Women and men of Kazakhstan 2017-2021
• Young people in Europe - a statistical summary. 2022 edition
• Ethnicity, Nation, and Politics: Critical Essays in Ethnopolitical Science
• Through the pages of the journals Analiz riska zdorovyu (Health Risk Analysis) and Ekonomika regiona (Economics of the Region)
• Contents of the Journal of Population Economics

Profession: researcher

• COVID-19 in Russia in 2021. Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research of the Higher School of Economics
• Demographic development of Moldova in the post-Soviet period. Seminar of the student society "Demograph"
• Section "Demography, family and gender" of the student conference "Alliance of Social Sciences"
• Congratulations to Salavat Abylkalikov on the birth of his daughter!