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Demographic Barometer

• Youth of the CIS - demographic touches to the statistical portrait of 2023
  • The number of young people 15-29 years old decreased by 2023 to 50 million people, or 17% of the total population of the CIS
  • The share of young people 15-29 years old varies from 16% of the population of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to 27% of the population of Tajikistan
  • Over the past twenty years, the average age at first marriage has increased in all CIS countries
  • The average age of a mother at the birth of her first child has increased in almost all CIS countries, but to varying degrees
  • In CIS countries, girls who have reached the age of 15 will live from 62 to 64 years more, boys - from 53 to 60 years

Q&A

• 6 out of 10 work groups give gifts to colleagues for the birth of a child and only 7% of companies have additional support programs for female employees on maternity leave
• One in nine mothers in Russia refuses maternity leave in favor of going to work
• Russians name factors influencing decision to have a child
• Nutrition practices
• Living on your own: when young Russians become financially independent

In the vastness of Russia

• Chernyshenko warns of impending demographic hole in Russia
• Peskov calls increasing the fertility rate one of Russian government’s priorities
• Government will create conditions for informed decision on whether to have a child
• Russian Orthodox Church proposes to increase fertility by allowing university students who give birth to study for free
• Average life expectancy in Moscow is about 79 years
• Duma Committee approves bill on tax refunds for families with children
• No likelihood of introducing six-day workweek in Russia
• The supply of remote jobs is declining in Russia
• Migration policy debate needs to be revisited
• Ministry of Internal Affairs has developed new mechanism for finding irregular migrants
• Moskalkova calls for “not resorting to repressive measures” in migration
• More than 30 thousand foreigners have been expelled from Russia since the beginning of 2024
• Rosobrnadzor will check how migrants pass exams
• About 54% of compatriot program applicants were unable to demonstrate language proficiency
• Ministry of Health estimates shortage of doctors and medical staff at almost 100 thousand people
• Tobacco consumption in Russia is declining, but alcohol consumption is not
• Ministry of Health approves new clinical recommendations for medical abortion
• Tenth region of Russia has introduced fines for “inducement to abortion”

World News

• South Korea President declares national emergency due to demographic problems
• Working-age population of Ukraine has decreased by 40% since 2021
• The number of internally displaced people in the world has reached a record level
• Latvian authorities have obliged all Russians living in the country to pass Latvian language exam
• Seven Schengen countries have called on EC to find more effective tools to combat migration
• Biden announces measures to facilitate legalization of 500,000 immigrants in the US
• Trump promises to impose tariffs on countries that do not fight illegal migration
• Illegal migrants from Russia and five post-Soviet countries will begin to be deported from the United States
• Germany plans to return Afghan refugees to their homeland through Uzbekistan
• Alcohol, tobacco, fossil fuels and ultra-processed foods are responsible for 19 million annual deaths
• Trump proposes introducing death penalty for drug traffickers in US
• Vapes and e-cigarettes are a “new threat” to generation Z
• Covid has become seasonal
• Anti-vaxxers lose referendum in Switzerland
• WHO reports first human case of avian flu in Mexico
• US Surgeon General calls for health warnings to be posted on social media.
• First physiotherapy clinic with AI doctors will begin operating in UK
• Same-sex marriage bill approved in Thailand

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on tightening migration policy
• Novye Izvestia on Russia's declining attractiveness for migrants
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and TASS on the development of small towns
• Kommersant on the decline in the population of the Far East
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the standard of living of Russians
• Kommersant on the shortage of personnel
• Kommersant on a proposal to include cancer in the list of occupational diseases
• Kommersant on obesity and the fight against it
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and TASS on a cure for cancer
• Novye Izvestia on vaccination against infectious diseases
• Kommersant and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the indexation of pensions for working pensioners
• Novye Izvestia on a parade of large families
• TASS on the need to increase fertility
• TASS on measures to increase fertility
• Kommersant on free reproductive health exams
• Kommersant on new abortion requirements
• Kommersant on supporting students with children
• Novye Izvestia on family mortgages
• Esli byt’ tochnym on palliative care
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on Moscow healthcare standards
• Kommersant on the departure of American insulin from Russia
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on maintaining mental health
• Gazeta.Ru on escaping from traditional society
• Kommersant on the return on investment in human capital
• Telegraph on the demographic situation of Ukraine
• IA Regnum on the integration of Ukrainians into Czech society
• Esli byt’ tochnym on deleting open statistical data

Read books and magazines

• On the state of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in 2023
• The fertility of migrants and minorities in Europe
• World health statistics 2024. Monitoring health for the SDGS, sustainable development goals
• Estatisticas Demograficas 2022
• Statistics on children 2023
• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Problemy Prognozirovaniya (Problems of Forecasting)
• Contents of the European Journal of Population

Profession: researcher

• XV Ural Demographic Forum. Sustainability of demographic development: determinants and resources
• Presenting an analytical system on demographic data