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Demographic Barometer

• Preliminary Demographic Outcomes for 2022 in Russia (Part I)
  • The population of Russia has been declining for the fifth year in a row - at the beginning of 2023 it numbered 146.4 million people, having decreased by 0.4% over the year
    
  • Natural decline was around 600,000, with a sharp decrease in migration growth offsetting it by only 6%
    
  • According to preliminary data, in 2022 the population decreased in 72 out of 85 subject regions
    
  • The number of births in Russia continues to decline, falling to 1,306 thousand people, or 9% in January-December 2022
    
  • The number of registered marriages increased in 2022 by 14%, divorces - by 6%

Q&A

• On gender inequality
  
• International Women's Day March 8: Women's Rights and Opportunities in Russia
  
• Women's Entrepreneurial Activity Index hits record high
  
• Emigration moods: VTsIOM monitoring
  
• Emigration moods and attitudes towards those who left Russia according to the Levada Center
  
• 39% of Russians were looking for work in 2022

In the vastness of Russia

• Mortality rates in 2022 returned to pre-pandemic levels
  
• For four years, the ratio of pensions to salaries in Russia has been less than 30%
  
• More than 3.3 million children in Russia receive unified allowance
  
• Deputies propose introduction of certificate for newborn children from low-income families
  
• Ministry of Labor does not support use of maternity capital for gasification of housing
  
• In Russia, the number of people wishing to send their children to study abroad has decreased by half over last 30 years
  
• Ministry of Construction announces shortage of 200 thousand specialists in construction
  
• Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to reduce the period of short-term stay of foreigners to 90 days per year
  
• Consumption of strong alcohol has risen sharply in Russia
  
• 76% of Russians support compulsory treatment for drug addicts
  
• In Russia, mortality from cardiovascular diseases has decreased
  
• Deaths due to covid in February fell to lowest level since beginning of pandemic
  
• In 2022, the number of different drugs on the Russian pharmacy market decreased by 1,900

World News

• Japan sees lowest number of births ever
  
• Chinese authorities will improve policies to promote childbirth
  
• UN sees no progress in reducing maternal mortality in the world
  
• Population aging in Poland threatens country with critical increase in public debt
  
• It will take another 300 years to achieve gender equality
  
• Citizens of Ukraine will be able to live in Georgia without a visa twice as long as Russians
  
• Belarus expands visa-free regime for Polish citizens
  
• EU launches updated Schengen database
  
• Cyprus asks Frontex for help in reducing migrant flow
  
• Migrants arriving in UK by boat will be expelled
  
• Pope Francis calls for fighting human trafficking
  
• WHO reports global decrease in Covid mortality
  
• More than a billion people in the world are at risk of getting cholera
  
• In 12 years, a quarter of the world's population will suffer from obesity
  
• Childhood nightmares can cause dementia and Parkinson's by age 50

The newspapers write about…

• RBK on January fertility growth of 417 people
  
• Izvestia on proposals for new support measures for newborns and large families
  
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on healthy life expectancy in retirement
  
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on discussion of pension reform
  
• RBK on incomes in the Russian regions
  
• RIA Novosti on an increase in mortgage repayments for the deceased
  
• Novye Izvestia on pharmacy tourism
  
• Zaxid.net on Ukrainian refugees in Poland
  
• Novye Izvestia on the change in the ratio of the indigenous population and migrants in Europe
  
• Novye Izvestia on demographic losses due to coronavirus
  
• Kommersant on polio outbreak in Dagestan
  
• Novye Izvestia on substance abuse among teenagers
  
• Izvestia on the shortage of HIV drugs in correctional facilities
  
• Kommersant on the national vaccination calendar
  
• Rzeczpospolita on demographic problems in Poland
  
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on faith in a better future

Read books and magazines

• V.V. Elizarov. Selected works. Digest of articles
  
• STEPS: prevalence of noncommunicable disease risk factors in the Republic of Moldova, 2021
  
• Global report on neglected tropical diseases 2023
  
• Health, United States, 2020-2021
  
• Demographic indicators of Azerbaijan
  
• Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Sotsiologiya meditsiny (Sociology of Medicine)
  
• Contents of the journal Population Studies

Profession: researcher

• Models of the dynamics of viral infections and the impact of quarantine measures on the mental health of the population. Seminar of the HSE International
• Laboratory for Population and Health Research
  
• Happy 85th birthday to Alexander Petrovich Babenyshev (Sergei Maksudov)!
  
• Even in Soviet times, it was necessary to work out in detail projects for the transition to democracy and a market economy. Interview with A.P. Babenyshev

New in the Reading Room

• Maksudov. USSR population losses