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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
  • Congratulations to Natalia Stanislavovna Zhuleva on her birthday!

 
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