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Demographic Barometer

• Demographic results of the first half of 2024 in Russia (part II)
  • In the first half of 2024, the number of deaths increased compared to the same period in 2023, exceeding 921,000 people, or 12.7 per 1,000 people
  • Life expectancy at birth increased in 2023 to 73.4 years, exceeding the pre-pandemic level of 2019
  • In 2023, mortality from external causes, diseases of the digestive system, neoplasms, and some infectious and parasitic diseases increased
  • According to data for the first half of 2024, infant mortality was 4.0‰ in annual terms
  • Maternal mortality in 2023 increased again, amounting to 13.3 per 100 thousand live births

Q&A

• Russians' views on parenting
• Online dating, or Romance in the digital age
• Less than 1% of Russians surveyed consider a housewife to be the ideal role for a girl
• Women in politics: VTsIOM monitoring
• Career growth leads women to divorce 1.5 times more often than men
• Mandatory consultation with a psychologist before divorce: 42% of divorced people approve, 45% are against

In the vastness of Russia

• In Russia, the population decline trend continues
• Ministry of Labor expects the number of women of reproductive age to decrease by 2046
• Data on 2.4 million families has been added to the register of large families
• Does the Kremlin still have no position on the issue of banning the childfree movement in the Russian Federation?
• 1.9 million unemployed in Russia
• List of professions prohibited for women has been cut by almost a third
• As of September 1, there were 6.2 million foreigners registered with the migration service in Russia
• In 2024, 43,000 work patents of migrants were cancelled in Russia
• Moscow Region will limit the work of migrants in 2025
• Authorities intend to reduce the number of fictitious marriages between migrants and Russian citizens
• Ministry of Education and Science supports introduction of oral part in Russian language exam for migrants
• Ministry of Education decides to test children of migrants on knowledge of the Russian language
• Russian Federation has almost 370,000 educational migrants
• More than 70% of foreigners study at Russian universities on a fee-paying basis
• Russia no longer one of world’s heaviest-drinking countries
• About 40 million Russians are obese
• Muscovites are offered free fertility testing for a year
• More than half of elderly Russians report anxiety and depression

World News

• Australia's population reaches 27.1 million for first time
• The number of people over 100 in Japan reaches 95,000
• China to raise retirement age
• Germany to start checking social networks of Schengen visa applicants
• Hungary intends to join Netherlands' request to withdraw from EU migration pact
• More than 80% of Germans surveyed support immigration restrictions
• Scholz supports introduction of controls at all German borders
• 77% of French respondents support restoration of border controls
• British government to allocate $100 million to strengthen border security
• New French Interior Minister promises to combat illegal migration
• Danish Prime Minister calls migrant problem second most important after Ukraine
• Finland to tighten residence permit requirements for family reunification
• Netherlands to declare asylum crisis
• Germany and Uzbekistan sign migration agreement
• Uzbekistan begins recruiting migrants for construction and manufacturing in Russia
• Ethiopian refugees return home due to war in Sudan
• Trump calls for death penalty for drug dealers in US
• New monkeypox strain reaches Sweden, Thailand and other countries outside Africa
• About 40% of Americans are obese
• Almost 50,000 cases of cholera registered worldwide in August
• Spain records its largest outbreak of dengue fever
• WHO recognizes Jordan as first leprosy-free country in world
• UK National Health Service in critical condition

The newspapers write about…

• News.ru, E1.ru, Novye Izvestia, RBK and Fontanka.ru on banning "childfree ideology"
• RBK and Kommersant on the reproductive plans of Russians
• Esli byt’ tochnym on low fertility
• Kommersant on hormonal analysis for fertility
• RBK on the possibility of increasing the amount of child care benefits up to one and a half years
• Novye Izvestia on curtailing family mortgages
• RBK on the 2030 population census
• Kommersant on migration in Russia through the eyes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
• RBK on restrictions for illegal migrants
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on assistance to foreign citizens in moving to Russia
• Kommersant and Izvestia on regulating the number of migrant children in school classes
• Esli byt’ tochnym on crime in Russia
• RBK on the difficulties of Russian emigrants
• Kommersant on the shortage of personnel
• Kommersant on new strains of coronavirus
• Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the resistance of microbes to antibiotics
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on refusing prophylactic vaccinations
• Novye Izvestia on the aging of the human body
• Novye Izvestia on the problem of early puberty in girls
• Kommersant on the transfer of anonymized personal data for training models based on artificial intelligence
• Novye Izvestia on identifying a predisposition to diabetes in children
• Novye Izvestia on the problem of loneliness
• TASS on Semashko's healthcare system
• Kommersant on the advantages and disadvantages of remote work
• Kommersant on shrinking cities in the Russian Arctic

Read books and magazines

• The demography of transforming families
• Materials for the state report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Russian Federation in 2022" for the Republic of Bashkortostan
• Health behaviour in school-aged children international report from the 2021/2022 survey
• Safeguarding the population of Russia: health, employment, standard of living and quality of life
• Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of January 1, 2024
• Through the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Sibirskiy onkologicheskiy zhurnal (Siberian Oncology Journal)
• Contents of the journal Population & Societe

Profession: researcher

• 95th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Samoilovich Akhiezer
• Congratulations to Ekaterina Sharepina on the birth of her son

Student page

• Expedition of the HSE Department of Social Sciences "Population migration in settlements between two or more large centers: what determines its scale and direction?" Collective diary of participants