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Demographic Barometer

• EU-27 households, 2009-2022
  • The number of private households in the EU-27 increased by 9% between 2009 and 2022, the average household size decreased to 2.2 people
  • The number of households with one adult increased by 30%, those with an adult couple by only 4%
  • The share of households with children decreased from 28% in 2009 to 24% in 2022
  • Among the EU-27 population 18 years and older, the proportion living alone increased to 20%, the proportion living in couples without children increased to 27%.
  • Among women 65 years of age and older, the share of people living alone is 41%, among men of the same age - 21%.

Q&A

• Value No. 1: towards the Year of the Family
• 2 out of 3 Russians provide financial assistance to their parents
• Marry an IT specialist: half of Russian women surveyed want to date an IT specialist
• The peak of productivity and career is at 47. Pensioners rate at what age they worked best
• On the boundaries of youth

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population decline in Russia from January to September came to 352,000 people
• By the end of the century, the population in Russia may fall below 100 million people
• Russian families are increasingly less likely to decide to have a second child
• Female senator calls for reorienting girls from education to childbirth
• State Duma deputy against abandoning education in favor of having children
• ASI proposes to make progressive support for the birth of children a basic principle
• Matvienko proposes to give families an apartment at the birth of a third child
• Volodin called on deputies to refrain from unacceptable ideas on the topic of fertility
• Infant mortality in Russia decreases to 4.1 cases per thousand newborns
• Infant mortality in Moscow has more than halved since 2010
• Duma proposal to ban adoption in countries with legal gender reassignment
• State Duma adopts law on increasing pensions in 2024
• One in five Russians has experienced homelessness
• Half of small and medium-sized businesses use services of the self-employed
• Migrant children will be tested on their knowledge of the Russian language and forced to study more
• Mortality rate of Russians from neoplasms has decreased by 5.6% over 4 years
• Russia sees record lows in incidence and mortality from tuberculosis
• Outbreaks of whooping cough in the Chelyabinsk and Tomsk regions, St. Petersburg and Tatarstan
• Pyotr Tolstoy keeps his own statistics on abortions
• Lawmakers should stop harassing doctors about inducing abortions
• Abortion ban could revive market for clandestine abortions
• Ministry of Health wants to ban IVF under compulsory medical insurance in clinics performing less than 100 cycles per year
• Russians’ diet affects life expectancy
• “Family studies” may become a compulsory subject in Russian schools in 2024

World News

• By 2033, the population of Ukraine could range from 26 to 35 million
• Fear of climate disaster influences decision to have children
• Finland sends military to border to combat influx of migrants
• Finland closes all checkpoints on Russian border except one
• Estonia preparing to close border with Russia immediately after Finland
• Trump plans to implement measures “unprecedented in American history” to combat illegal migration
• A third of deaths from non-melanoma skin cancer are due to sun exposure
• People over 65 are no longer at high risk for Covid
• Global measles cases rise 18% in 2022
• Virologists expect deadly new pandemic
• Educated people are less likely to have heart disease
• Is loneliness as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day?
• Vatican allows representatives of sexual minorities to take part in church sacraments

The newspapers write about…

• Novye Izvestia, News.ru, RBK and Kommersant on measures to increase birth rate: from exemption from personal income tax to free apartments
• Novye Izvestia on benefits for families with many children
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the decline in fertility and the number of births in Russia
• TASS on the decline in fertility in the USA
• Novye Izvestia, Afisha Daily, RBK and Kommersant on the proposal to ban abortions and its consequences
• News.ru and Kommersant on the refusal to perform abortions in private clinics
• Novye Izvestia and News.ru on the proposal to ban inducement to abortion
• Forbes on abortion rights
• Izvestia on a blacklist of alimony debtors
• RBK on the "aging" of the labor market in Russia
• Kommersant and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the shortage of personnel in the labor market
• Kommersant on the natural level of unemployment
• Kommersant on the desire for part-time work among schoolchildren
• Kommersant on the number of scientists
• Novye Izvestia on deporting migrants due to the crimes of their children
• Kommersant on the language adaptation of migrant children
• Novye Izvestia on naturalized migrants from Tajikistan
• Kommersant on migrantophobia
• RBK on the values of Muscovites and migrants from Central Asia
• RBK and Fontanka.ru on refugees crossing the Russian-Finnish border
• RBK on Russian " golden visa"
• Novye Izvestia on compulsory medical insurance for migrants
• Novye Izvestia on new strain of coronavirus
• Novye Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the fight against smoking
• Kommersant on the problems of cancer patients
• Kommersant on factors in the development of cancer
• Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the increase in measles incidence and vaccine shortages
• RBK on the influence of nutrition on life expectancy
• Kommersant on the lack of state funds to treat hepatitis C
• Kommersant on the possibility of being screened for hepatitis C as part of state medical exam
• Novye Izvestia on reducing compensation for disabled people purchasing their own rehabilitation equipment
• Novye Izvestia on underfunding of medicine
• Kommersant on the suspension of the use of artificial intelligence in medicine
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the revision of national projects
• Novye Izvestia on the fight against the LGBT movement
• Esli byt’ tochnym on improving the subjective well-being of adolescents
• Novye Izvestia on the economic restrictions of home ownership

Read books and magazines

• Health at a Glance 2023
• Malignant neoplasms in the northwestern federal district of Russia (morbidity, mortality, reliability of registration, patient survival)
• Youth of Kazakhstan 2018-2022
• Population and social indicators of the CIS countries and individual countries of the world. 2019-2022
• Savings of the Russian population: health, employment, standard of living and quality of life
• Through the pages of the magazines Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Regionalnye Issledovaniya (Regional Research)
• Contents of the journal "Population"

Profession: researcher

• 95 years since the birth of Vladimir Georgievich Kostakov
• In memory of Zh.A. Zayonchkovskaya. Article in the Great Russian Encyclopedia