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Demographic Barometer

• World population estimates according to the UN 2024 revision
  • On July 11, 2024, the results of the 28th cycle of calculations "World Population Prospects 2024 revision" were presented
  • The world population continues to grow rapidly, exceeding 8.1 billion people by 2024, but is highly likely to start declining from the mid-2080s, not reaching 10.3 billion people
  • In a 95% confidence interval, the world population by the end of the century will be from 9.0 to 11.4 billion people
  • In 2023, 59% of the world's population lived in Asia, 18% in Africa; by the end of the century these shares may be, respectively, 45% and 37%
  • Total fertility of the world's population has fallen below the level 2.3 children per woman, which is one child less than in the early 1990s

Q&A

• The ideal family - 2024
• Reproductive attitudes of Russians
• Russian society has not decided what it thinks of the childfree ideology
• 72% of Russians believe that when getting married a woman should take her husband's surname
• Interethnic relations and the problem of immigration
• Emigration moods: VTsIOM monitoring

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of women of reproductive age will decrease until 2046
• Fertility may be included in KPI for regional leaders
• 47% of Russians consider financial opportunities to be the main factor in deciding to have children
• One in three Russians supports childfree ban
• One in three large families in Russia is low-income
• Workers from Moscow region coming to the capital less often
• Vladimir Putin signs law expanding deportation powers of Ministry of Internal Affairs
• For failure to register for military service, migrants will face loss of citizenship
• More than 4,000 migrants this year were unable to obtain Russian citizenship due to lack of knowledge of the language
• Is hatred towards migrants being artificially incited?
• The share of smokers in the population of the Russian Federation has decreased almost twofold since 2009
• Most Russian smokers would like to kick the habit
• Excess weight can cause lack of fertility
• Senators support ban on selling energy drinks to children and teenagers
• Moscow bans construction of small apartments
• More than half of Russians believe that a prenuptial agreement is likely to protect the rights of spouses

World News

• India's population will exceed 1.5 billion people by 2036
• South Africa's population has exceeded 63 million
• France sets new record fertility low
• Mortality in Ukraine has exceeded fertility threefold
• Rada committee supports bill legalizing same-sex unions
• Estonia introduces full customs control on border with Russia
• Benefits for Ukrainian refugees in Germany slowing down their job placement
• The number of emigrants from Sweden for the first time in 50 years may exceed the number of immigrants
• Vance proposes to deport 1 million illegal migrants from US
• Tajik authorities report decrease in flow of migrants to Russia
• Kyrgyzstan hopes restrictions on migrant work in Russia will not apply to its citizens
• More than 4,700 migrants from Tajikistan not allowed into Russian Federation
• Cancer mortality among men may almost double by 2050
• Heat-related mortality in Europe has increased by 30% since 2000
• Nearly 50,000 Europeans died due to heat wave in 2023
• The number of abortions in the US has exceeded the figures before their partial ban
• Japanese authorities will pay compensation to victims of forced sterilization
• Monkeypox outbreak in Congo is supported by rapid spread of mutant virus
• In Mongolia, drinking alcohol in front of children will be equated with creating a danger

The newspapers write about…

• Izvestia on measures to increase fertility
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on attitudes towards childless couples
• RBK on bill banning abortions in private clinics
• RBK on national project to increase life expectancy
• Moskovsky Komsomolets on manipulation of infant mortality statistics in regions
• TASS and RBK on HIV treatment
• Esli byt’ tochnym on deaths "from despair"
• TASS on the health of past and present generations
• RBK on migrants in Russia
• Kommersant and RBK on adaptation course for migrants and the Russian language exam
• Vedomosti on knowledge of the Russian language among children of migrants
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on the mandatory registration of migrants for military service before taking the oath of citizenship of Russia
• TASS on the regime of expulsion of foreign citizens
• RBK on administrative offenses of migrants
• Kommersant on the comments of the Prosecutor General's Office on the law on strengthening migration control
• Novye Izvestia on the replacement of immigrants by Russians
• RBK on "boom" of African workers in Russia
• Kommersant on the territory of the "rural mortgage" program
• Vedomosti on the growth of cigarette sales
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the increase in sentences to forced labor
• RBK on Ukraine’s shrinking population

Read books and magazines

• Demographic well-being of the regions of Russia
• A Focus on Adolescent Substance Use in Europe, Central Asia and Canada
• World population prospects 2024. Summary of results
• 2022 Population and Housing Census of the Kyrgyz Republic. Economic activity and employment of the population of Kyrgyzstan
• Migrations in the Mediterranean
• Through the pages of the magazines Zdorovye, demografiya, ekologiya finno-ugorskikh narodov (Health, demography, ecology of the Finno-Ugric peoples) and Mir Rossii. Sotsiologiya i etnologiya (The world of Russia. Sociology and ethnology)
• Contents of the journal Demographic Research

Profession: researcher

• Happy birthday to Natalia Mikhailovna Kalmykova