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Demographic barometer

• International migration according to 2022 estimates
  • The United Nations Population Division estimates that the number of international migrants has risen to 281 million, or 3.6% of the world's population
  • People aged 25-64 make up 50 per cent of the world’s population and 66 per cent of international migrants
  • ILO estimates that there were 169 million international labor migrants in 2019
  • UNESCO estimates number of international student migrants is over 6 million people
  • World Bank estimates international remittances increased to $794 billion in 2022
  • Refugee numbers rise to 34 million

Q&A

• One in three Russians reports having had the flu this autumn-winter
• Women complaining more often about harassment from colleagues
• Russians name country’s top 5 cities for a comfortable life in retirement
• Labor mobility within the EU
• Online education: 53% of Russians want to develop in their profession

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural decline in the population of Russia for 11 months of 2022 is 543.4 thousand people
• The largest number of marriages over the past 105 years was registered in Moscow in 2022
• Marriage as a union of a man and a woman is enshrined in the foundations of state cultural policy
• According to census, the number of homeless people in Russia has decreased sixfold over last 10 years
• About half of the unemployed in Russia are women
• Acceptance of applications for deferment from conscription for IT specialists has begun
• Employers hiring more older people
• One in five Russians wants to retire abroad
• HRC suggests limiting the granting of citizenship to participants in the resettlement program
• State Duma will consider bill on simplified acquisition of citizenship by scientists
• About 13.5% of deaths aged 20-39 are alcohol-related
• Mortality in traffic accidents in 2022 decreased by 6%
• Most of those dying from coronavirus in Russia had not been revaccinated
• Ministry of Health head tells of impact of COVID on the reproductive health of Russians
• More than a third of Russians have had the flu or SARS
• Influenza B has replaced swine flu
• Russians take antibiotics wrong
• Purchases of drugs for state clinics decreased by 8% in 2022
• Corvalol, iodine and aspirin have been added to the list of potentially scarce drugs
• Spending on health last year increased for 72% of Russians

World News

• Abolition of "one family - one child" policy has not helped raise birth rate in China
• In Japan, only 16.5% of young people plan to get married
• More than 1 million protesters in France against pension reform
• Embassy of Sweden will resume issuing visas to Russian citizens
• Mexican authorities letting fewer foreigners into country
• Number of illegal EU border crossings highest since 2016
• More than 300,000 citizens have returned to Venezuela since 2020
• Kyrgyzstan bans foreigners from taking out more than $5,000 in cash
• China records 60,000 COVID-19-related deaths in a month
• Japan again records sharp increase in deaths from coronavirus
• WHO asks China to provide details on coronavirus pandemic
• Japan plans to downgrade COVID-19 status to seasonal flu
• Cholera affects up to four million people worldwide every year

The newspapers write about…

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Advance, Kommersant and RBK on China’s population decline and India’s rise
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on stimulating the birth rate in China and Russia
• Novye Izvestia on Russia’s ethnic composition according to census results
• Kommersant on traditional family values
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on possible sanctions against Russians leaving the country
• Kommersant on innovations in the rules for the stay of foreigners in Kazakhstan
• RBK on the growth of money transfers abroad
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the lifting of covid restrictions in China
• Kommersant on the effectiveness of calls to "take care of yourself" during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Izvestia on the salary of doctors
• Novye Izvestia on the shortage of medicines and medical personnel
• Kommersant on telemedicine
• Kommersant on religiosity and bad habits
• Kommersant on grandparents

Read books and magazines

• The demographic well-being of Russian regions
• A comprehensive assessment of current economic development strategies, labor migration and remittances in the Republic of Belarus
• STEPS: prevalence of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2019
• Regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2022
• The demographic handbook of Armenia, 2021
• Through the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Ekologiya Cheloveka (Human Ecology)
• Contents of the magazine Genus

Profession: researcher

• 70 years since the birth of Sergei Sergeevich Artobolevsky
• Border territories of the Russian Federation: what can the state do and what does it want?
• Interview of Sergei Artobolevsky by International Life magazine