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Demographic Barometer

• The first demographic results of 2022 in the European Union
  • The population of the EU-27 has begun to grow again, exceeding 448 million by the beginning of 2023
  • Natural decline in the population of the EU-27 continued to increase in 2022, amounting to almost 1.3 million people; net migration "jumped" to 4 million people
  • The number of births in the EU-27 continues to decline, dropping to 3.9 million in 2022 or 8.7 per 1,000 people
  • In 2022, the number of deaths in the EU-27 fell to 5.1 million, or 11.5 per 1,000 people
  • The median age of the EU-27 population in 2022 was 44.4 years

Q&A

• The ideal family - 2023
• For happiness, women need children as much as a career
• Romir: half of fathers are ready to take maternity leave
• According to Russians, the priority of the state should be education and healthcare
• Until the thunder rolls: 75% of Russians go to the doctor only in the most extreme cases
• Public vs private medical institutions
• Immigrants in Russia: pros and cons

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population decline in January-May came to 264,300 people
• Extremely low birth rate recorded in 10 regions of the Russian Federation
• Over last 20 years, the proportion of Russian women ready to have a first child after 35 has increased four-fold
• Almost half of Russian men are ready to go on maternity leave instead of their wife
• Ministry of Health intends to fight against abortions and career-oriented women
• Demand for abortion drugs increased by 1.5 times in 2022
• State Duma proposes to ban private clinics from performing abortions
• Is a new increase in the retirement age inevitable?
• HRC says Russia has no normal system for monitoring migrants
• A record number of Russian passports were issued in the first half of 2023
• State has begun to identify Russians not living at their place of registration
• VTsIOM: 90% of Russians do not want to leave the country
• Part of labor migrants may leave Russia due to weakening ruble
• Russia is one of the countries that most protect their people from smoking
• In Russia, 17 cases of a new, more contagious variant of covid were detected
• US pharmaceutical company MSD stops supplying HIV drug to Russia
• Do not prescribe again: Ministry of Health sends out lists of missing medications to hospitals
• Foreign pharmaceutical companies have reduced the number of clinical trials in Russia by 13.9 times
• The number of prisoners in Russia falls to historic low

World News

• Fertility in Germany falls to 10-year low
• South Korean citizens 'rejuvenated' thanks to new age-counting system
• Do men with high intelligence have children later?
• In Japan, the number of working women has exceeded 30 million for the first time
• About 1.3 million foreigners live in Istanbul
• For the first time in 10 years, Kazakhstan sees positive net migration thanks to the CIS
• More than 20 thousand Russians have registered in Georgia as individual entrepreneurs
• France recognizes right to asylum for Russian mobilization evaders
• Times: EU rejects London proposal for new migrant readmission deal
• Officially, there are 4.07 million Ukrainian refugees in Europe
• UN reports that about 20 thousand Sudanese have fled their homes as a result of clashes
• Over 9,000 civilians have died in Ukraine since February 2022
• Almost half of the countries in the world did not detect a single case of COVID-19 over past month
• WHO reports 80% increase in the incidence of Covid over 28 days
• Scientists have found that superbugs are responsible for 43% of deaths from infections in America
• The risk of birth defects is lowest in children whose mothers are between 23 and 32 years old
• WHO warns of high risk of cholera spread in the world
• Kazakhstan wants to criminalize bride kidnapping
• Bloomberg learns about Musk Foundation's $10 million donation for demographic research

The newspapers write about…

• Esli byt’ tochnym on mortality from external causes last year
• Kommersant on the quality of statistics on causes of death
• RBK on restoring the level of life expectancy
• Kommersant on the increase in the incidence of diabetes
• Novye Izvestia and RBK on the incidence of tuberculosis in children
• Novye Izvestia and Kommersant on the proposals of the Ministry of Health in the field of reproduction and the medical community’s reaction
• Esli byt’ tochnym, Novye Izvestia, and Lenta.ru on the fight against abortion
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the long-term trend of declining birth rates
• Vedomosti on measures to increase the birth rate
• RBK on the growth in the number of births and deaths
• Kommersant on premarital conceptions
• Novye Izvestia on features of remarriage in the Russian Empire
• Nozh on emigration from Russia
• Kommersant on migration to the EAEU
• Kommersant on a possible outflow of migrants due to dollar exchange rate
• Novye Izvestia and Kommersant on ethnic enclaves and the proportion of migrant children in schools
• RBK on financing resettlement programs from the North
• RBK on the shortage of personnel in manufacturing
• RBK on the middle class and poverty in Russia
• RBK on the cohort of highly paid Russians
• Novye Izvestia on the use of maternity capital funds
• RBK on the reform of the funded pension system
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on narrowing the gap in pensions between working and non-working pensioners
• Izvestia on a proposal to compensate families for part of the cost of renting housing
• Kommersant on problems of the rural mortgage
• The New York Times on population aging

Read books and magazines

• The Republic of Bashkortostan. A demographic report
• South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region on the move - migration data report 2021-2022
• Levels & trends in child mortality report 2022
• Demographic yearbook of the Czech Republic - 2021
• Key figures on Europe 2023 edition
• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Uroven’ zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii (Standard of living of the population of Russian regions)
• Contents of the journal Demographic Research

Profession: researcher

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