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Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Demographic Barometer

  • Demographic results of the first half of 2024 in Russia (part I)
    • According to results of the first half of 2024, population decline in Russia increased by 1.8 times compared to the same period in 2023
    • Natural decline increased in January-June 2024, amounting to -4.4‰ in annual terms; migration growth decreased to 0.9‰
    • According to estimates at the beginning of 2024, the number of elderly people aged 65 and older almost equaled the number of children under 15, amounting to 17.1% and 17.2% of the population of Russia, respectively
    • The number of births continues to decline: 590,500 people were born in January-June 2024, 2.7% less than in the same period of 2023
    • Total fertility rate remains at 1.4 children per woman
    • The number of marriages registered in January-June 2024 decreased by 3.1%, divorces - by 4.8%

Q&A

  • Family and work
  • Large families
  • Smoke without fire, or the culture of smoking in Russia
  • Where is it better to live: in the city or in the village?
  • More than half of doctors support banning migrants from working in medicine

In the vastness of Russia

  • The number of Russians over working age will grow by almost 2 million by 2030
  • Moscow will soon cross the 80-year mark in average life expectancy
  • Fertility in Russia hits record low
  • 72% of women and 70% of men would like to have two or more children
  • Proposal to start "Demographic special operation" in Far East
  • Ministry of Labor will focus on making families more popular
  • Ministry of Justice intends to introduce mandatory conciliation procedure in divorce
  • More than 10 new cities are being built in Russia
  • A region’s distance from the capitals contributes to a growing proportion of young people willing to leave for work
  • Will retraining reduce the personnel shortage?
  • Yandex Taxi warns of price increases due to driver shortage
  • Airports to prepare for fingerprinting of foreigners
  • In 2023, Russia had 630,000 illegal migrants
  • Registry of migrants required to leave Russia will appear
  • Russia introduces new rules for deportation of foreign minors
  • The number of smokers in Russia decreased from 41% to 30% from 2009 to 2023
  • One-year mortality rate of cancer patients down by 18%
  • Ministry of Health reports 30% decrease in heart attack mortality
  • About 13 million people in the Russian Federation work in hazardous conditions

World News

  • A record low number of children were born in Japan in the first half of the year
  • One in ten kindergartens in Sweden may close due to low birth rate
  • Will Filipino nannies help raise fertility in South Korea?
  • Kyrgyzstan changes rules for Russians staying in the country
  • Berlin is called to radically change its migration policy
  • German President calls for making migration restrictions a priority in coming years
  • Germany introduces controls at all land borders
  • New French Prime Minister intends to restore Ministry of Immigration
  • Spanish Foreign Minister calls for preventing the Atlantic from becoming a migrant cemetery
  • UN accuses Western politicians of inciting hatred towards migrants
  • Germany deports migrants to Afghanistan for first time since 2021
  • At least 1,500 migrants from Tajikistan have entered the United States through the southern border over 4 years
  • Tajik citizens are advised not to travel to Russia
  • The number of Tajiks willing to work in the Russian Federation has decreased
  • More than 20 thousand people dead in Sudan
  • Finland is predicted to have highest alcohol consumption in Northern Europe
  • More than 460,000 children vaccinated against polio in Gaza
  • USA to use smallpox vaccine to protect against monkeypox
  • Two US states have recommended staying home in the evenings due to the VEE virus
  • Sweden has recommended for the first time limiting children’s time with gadgets

The newspapers write about…

  • Kommersant on the dynamics of migration growth
  • Kommersant on improving migration policy
  • Kommersant on a register of persons under surveillance
  • Novye Izvestia on crimes among migrants
  • TASS on adaptation courses for migrants
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on instant hiring of workers
  • Kommersant on the interaction of career centers in educational institutions and state employment services
  • RBK on pension points for working pensioners
  • RBK on raising the retirement age in China
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the demand for job seekers of retirement age
  • Kommersant on the growth of employment among people with disabilities
  • Forbes on the shortage of taxi personnel
  • Kommersant on the growth of employment among people with disabilities
  • RBK on a register of companies caught in illegal hiring
  • Esli byt’ tochnym and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the growth of real wages and the reduction of poverty
  • Forbes and RBK on postponing childbearing
  • RBK on fertility testing
  • Kommersant on the distribution of budget funds in healthcare
  • IA Regnum on abortions in the North Caucasus
  • Kommersant on lung cancer statistics
  • Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on a vaccine against lung cancer
  • Novye Izvestia on the new wave of coronavirus
  • Novye Izvestia on quitting vaping
  • Novye Izvestia on repressive medicine

Read books and magazines

  • Society at a glance 2024
  • Recruiting immigrant workers Japan 2024
  • Demography: an introduction to population studies
  • State report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in St. Petersburg in 2023"
  • The situation of youth in the CIS countries (analytical review), 2024
  • Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskiye Issledovaniya (Sociological research) and Noveishaya Istoriya Rossii (Modern history of Russia)
  • Contents of the Journal of Marriage and Family

Profession: researcher

  • 110 years since the birth of Ilya Grigorievich Venetsky
  • Initiation into demographers - 2024

 
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