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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