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Demographic Barometer

• World population according to UN estimates, 2024 revision (part II)
  • After 1.7-year decline during COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy at birth has begun to increase again, reaching 73.3 years worldwide in 2024
  • Life expectancy at birth varies by region from 64.0 years in Africa to 79.8 in North America
  • Even during pandemic, more developed countries received more than 2 million "net" migrants annually; in 2023 their number exceeded 3.6 million people, or 2.8 per 1,000 people
  • World population continues to age - the share of elderly people aged 65 and over has already exceeded 10%, and by 2054 may exceed 17%
  • The proportion of the population 65 years and over ranges from 3.6% in Africa to20.5% in Europe

Q&A

• The marriage contract, or the legal nuances of love
• How Russians rate their health
• How Russians treat their health and what they do to maintain it
• Ban on migrants entering Russia with families
• Only 18% of economically active Russians rely on personal savings for their pensions

In the vastness of Russia

• Total fertility rate in Russian villages has decreased by a third in 10 years
• Infant mortality in the Russian Federation has decreased to 4 per 1000
• For a quarter of families, the monthly mortgage payment is more than half of their income
• Schoolchildren will be taught values ??about family and having many children
• Migrant salaries in industry have increased by almost 40% since the beginning of the year
• Demand for Schengen visas has grown significantly in Russia
• Dozens of migrants who received Russian citizenship summoned to military enlistment office
• State Duma considering 28 bills on migration policy
• No plans for revising documents on labor migration in EAEU
• Will interviews of visa applicants help combat illegal migration?
• Russia to help resettle those disillusioned with Western values
• Ministry of Internal Affairs reports decrease in migrant crime
• Cancer incidence is growing, while mortality is decreasing
• Cases of West Nile fever infection have been recorded in 22 regions of the Russian Federation
• Russia will study antibiotic resistance

World News

• The population of the Netherlands has exceeded 18 million
• Fertility has increased in the Republic of Korea for first time since 2015
• Demographic crisis in Ukraine will become a problem on way to restoring the country
• Average life expectancy in Lithuania the highest in 66 years
• Lithuania plans to extend residence permits for Ukrainians for another year
• Migration will return to EU agenda after terrorist attack in Germany
• Hungary threatens to send migrants to Brussels
• Netherlands cannot cope with flow of refugees
• Texas suspends Biden's program to legalize migrants
• In Estonia, schoolchildren will not be taught in Russian
• Monkeypox virus mutating faster than expected
• In the Congo, over 15 thousand people have contracted mpox since start of the year
• In Sudan, more than 300 people have died from cholera
• 2024 is record year for the number of temperature highs
• Heat-related deaths in Europe could triple by the end of the century
• UN reports unprecedented increase in number of humanitarian workers killed

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on international labor migration in Russia
• Lenta.ru on labor migration from Central Asia
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on proposal to ban labor migrants from bringing their families
• Kommersant on attracting foreigners who support Russian traditionalism
• Kommersant on monitoring fictitious marriages among migrants
• RBK on list of information about foreigners
• RBK on "managed hiring of migrants"
• Kommersant on territories with limited access for foreigners
• Kommersant on the decline in the number of internal labor migrants
• Kommersant on measures to support fertility
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the fight against abortions
• RBK on the sexual experience and contraceptive behavior of young people
• Novye Izvestia on the shortage of schools in the south of Russia and the Caucasus
• RBK on the growth of diabetes
• Kommersant on cancer incidence and mortality
• Kommersant on going to work while sick
• Izvestia and Novye Izvestia on international monkeypox emergency
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the prospects for life in retirement
• Novye Izvestia on the career trajectory of medical school graduates
• TASS on the development of geriatric service
• TASS on the history of the discovery of penicillin

Read books and magazines

• World Migration Report 2024
• Labor migration in Asia: trends, skills certification and seasonal work
• Key figures on Europe. 2024 edition
• World population prospects 2024. Data Source
• State report on the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the city of Moscow in 2023
• Through the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Uroven’ zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii (Standard of living of the population of the regions of Russia)
• Contents of the magazine Demography

Profession: researcher

• 75 years since the birth of Valery Vladimirovich Elizarov
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