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Demographic barometer

• Demographic results of the first half of 2023 in Russia (part I)
  • According to the results of the first half of the year, population decline in Russia has been observed for the seventh year in a row, but in 2023 it decreased threefold compared to January-June 2022
  • Natural decline decreased in January-June 2023, coming to -3.7‰ in annual terms, while migration growth increased to 1.7‰
  • According to estimates at the beginning of 2023, children under the age of 15 make up 17.4% of the Russian population, elderly people 65 years of age and older - 16.5%
  • In the first half of 2023, the number of births continued to decline, decreasing by 3%
  • Total fertility dropped to 1.4 children per woman
  • The number of marriages registered in January-June 2022 increased by 0.5%, divorces - by 5.2%

Demoscope 1,000

• Demoscope issue numbers are now in four digits

Q&A

• Not only wages, or about social support from employers for workers and their families
• Two thirds of employers pay insufficient attention to employee health
• Only one out of two working Russians who are married or in a relationship was able to take a vacation with their other half
• Over-the-counter anti-pregnancy pills: pros and cons
• Coronavirus a year and a half later: is the fear returning?
• Attitude of residents of neighboring countries to the latest wave of emigration from Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy has exceeded 78 years in 3 regions of Russia
• “Demographic” improvements will begin with pilot regions
• 40% of Russian women refuse to have children due to poor financial situation and living conditions
• Peskov justifies increase in draft age by demography
• The number of people living below the poverty line in Russia is 15.7 million
• About 15 million Russians experiencing deep depression
• 23,000 people have received land ownership under the Hectare program
• One in three residents of the Far East would like to leave the region
• Zatulin proposes creating a Ministry of Migration Affairs
• As prices rise, Russians are ready to buy illegal cigarettes
• Oncology treatment funded by compulsory medical insurance has increased by 64% over four years
• The range of imported drugs in pharmacies has shrunk by 20% over the year
• Ministry of Health develops project for federal register of patients
• Diseases of Muscovites will be identified using AI
• A list of diseases with which one cannot do contract military service has been approved

World News

• The population of Japan in 2022 was 122,423,038 people
• The population of Kazakhstan has exceeded 19.9 million people
• The population of the Czech Republic has grown to 10.87 million
• Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, life expectancy in Germany has decreased by more than six months
• Ukraine will face a significant decline in fertility due to the departure of women of reproductive age
• The number of births in Poland in 2022 is the lowest in the entire post-war period
• Women in leadership positions face ageism throughout their lives
• People with higher levels of education live longer
• The number of immigrants in Lithuania in 2022 was almost double that of the year before
• Permanent residence permits for Russian citizens will no longer be valid in Latvia
• More than 60% of Russian citizens living in Latvia did not pass the language exam
• Finland will limit the conditions for issuing residence permits to students and researchers
• 3.3 million refugees may not return to Ukraine
• More than 330,000 people asked for asylum in European countries in 2022
• More than 110,000 migrants have arrived in New York since the spring of 2022
• Belgium wants to limit the intake of single male refugees
• Cancer incidence has increased significantly in people under 50
• Climate change will lead to increased deaths from conflict and famine in Africa
• Economists estimate the economic cost of seasonal allergies for the first time
• Opposites don’t attract?
• Interest in sex may extend life in men

The newspapers write about…

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on (anti-)migration rhetoric
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on a proposal to change the practice of resolving ethnic conflicts
• NEWS.ru and Ridus on labor migration
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on internal migrants
• Kommersant on the issue of regulating abortion
• The National Interest and Interia on Ukrainian refugees
• Novye Izvestia on the increase in the number of singles in Russia
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the lack of places in schools
• Fontanka.ru on the discrepancy between the number of births and the number of first-graders
• Novye Izvestia on preferences for those who refused an abortion
• RBK on the income of single mothers
• Kommersant on wage growth
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on poverty reduction
• RBK on reducing alcohol consumption
• Novye Izvestiya on the dangers of obesity
• Forbes on the peculiarities of working in Japan

Read books and magazines

• Indicators of immigrant integration 2023: settling in
• Demography and climate change
• France. Health Systems in Transition
• Asia-Pacific migration data report 2022
• Demographic indicators of Azerbaijan
• Through the pages of the journals Problemy Sotsialnoy Gigieny, Zdravookhraneniya i Istorii Meditsiny (Problems of social hygiene, health care and history of medicine) and Vestnik MGU. Seriya 18. Sotsiologiya i Pollitologiya (Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 18. Sociology and political science)
• Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

• Problems of demography at the V Russian Economic Congress-2023
• Continuing education courses under the program "Population and Development" of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in the framework of cooperation with UNFPA

Students Page

• Initiation Day for Demographers - 2023