Vishnevsky Institute of Demography
of NRU HSE (IDEM)

¹ 1049 - 1050
October 29 - November 11 2024

ISSN 1726-2887

front page

contents of issue

archives

reading-room

annex guestbook bulletin board

search

 
Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

¹ 1047 - 1048

Demographic Barometer

  • Migration in Russia in the first half of 2024
    • Net migration in the population of Russia for January-June 2024 decreased to 65 thousand people, including up to 30 thousand people in population exchange with other countries
    • Russia received its largest migration increase for January-June 2024, as in 2021-2023, in population exchange with Tajikistan
    • According to the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, the number of foreign citizens who arrived in Russia for work purposes exceeded 4.5 million people in 2023
    • The volume of migration within Russia decreased in January-June 2024 by 5% in terms of the number of arrivals and by 4% in terms of the number of departures
    • In January-June 2024, migration exchange with CIS countries increased the population of 48 of the 85 regions-subjects of the federation, and migration exchange with other regions of Russia - 23
    • The number of people granted temporary asylum in Russia decreased to 13.9 thousand people by mid-2024

Q&A

  • Family studies in school: pros and cons
  • Half of Russians support ban on childfree propaganda, while 74% oppose introduction of tax on childlessness
  • Fear of contracting coronavirus has decreased to the level of fear of the flu
  • Let’s move for work?
  • Not just Moscow and St. Petersburg. Top 5 best cities for a career include Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Kazan

In the vastness of Russia

  • Russia plans to reduce mortality in 2025
  • Age group above 80 years shows largest population growth
  • More than 1,000 Muscovites are over 100 years old
  • The share of IVF births in 2023 was 2.4% of all births
  • Bill to ban childfree propaganda is introduced to State Duma
  • "Student family" bill introduced to Duma
  • Universities may get student family support officer
  • Russian employers starting to value candidates over 50 more
  • Putin expands visa-free regime for Georgian citizens
  • Five bills against illegal migration introduced to Duma
  • State Duma adopts in second reading a bill against fictitious marriages with foreigners
  • Migrants with a fictitious certificate in the Russian language will not receive a Russian passport
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to introduce illegal migrant register starting in March
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to limit period of temporary registration for all migrants to a year
  • In Primorye, migrants will be prohibited from working with work patents in 41 fields
  • Over last 20 years, the proportion of non-drinking Russians has almost doubled
  • Proposal to limit the sale of tobacco to those born after 2009
  • Survival rate of children with cancer in Russia is more than 80%

World News

  • Britain sees biggest population growth in last 50 years
  • The population of Ukraine may decrease by almost 6 million by 2051
  • Europe has partially met its personnel shortage with Ukrainian refugees
  • In Germany, almost one in two recipients of benefits does not have a German passport
  • In Finland, a proposal to revoke residence permits for security reasons
  • Tajikistan concerned about the situation with migrants in the Russian Federation
  • CDU party promoting construction of fences on EU borders
  • Harris promises to take new measures against illegal migration
  • France needs new immigration control policy
  • France and Germany call on EC to conclude agreement on illegal migration with UK
  • Hungary intends to stop illegal immigration to the EU
  • Brussels to create camps for deported migrants outside the EU
  • Migrant situation on Polish-Belarusian border is difficult
  • The number of male smokers will decrease by 26% by mid-century
  • Antimicrobial resistance causes more than one million deaths per year
  • COVID-19 is not seasonal
  • Humans have approached the biological limits of life expectancy
  • One teen in ten suffers from addiction to social networks and computer games

The newspapers write about…

  • Kommersant, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, News.ru on the approval of bills on migration and citizenship
  • Kommersant on the fight against fictitious marriages among foreigners
  • Kommersant on foreign citizenship as an aggravating circumstance
  • RBK and Expert on criticism of the tightening of migration policy
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the decrease in the number of labor migrants in Russia
  • Kommersant, RBK and Novye Izvestia on the personnel shortage in the labor market
  • Kommersant on increasing fertility by 2035
  • News.ru on the "special demographic operation"
  • Izvestia on banning the adoption of Russian children
  • Novye Izvestia, Gazeta.Ru and News.ru on childlessness tax
  • Novye Izvestiya on regional law prohibiting encouragement to abort
  • Novye Izvestia on support for large families
  • RBK on new practical approaches to demographic policy in China
  • Kommersant on the risk of heart defects in children conceived using IVF
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on reproductive health screening
  • RBK on the impact of the tobacco ban on cancer mortality
  • Kommersant on the problem of funding hepatitis C screening
  • Novye Izvestia on the deadly Marburg virus
  • Kommersant on providing treatment for rare diseases
  • Kommersant on program to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance
  • Novye Izvestia on the benefits of sports
  • TASS on life satisfaction in rural areas
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the ages of increasing health risks
  • Kommersant on myopia in young people and children
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the aging of mortgage borrowers
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on the life of orphans

Read books and magazines

  • World development report 2023. Migrants, refugees, and societies
  • Moscow region dachas: population, land, economy (19th-21st centuries)
  • On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Belgorod region in 2023
  • Monitoring of indicators of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the CIS region 2018-2022
  • Population, disabilities, incidence of COVID-19 and vaccination in the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Rossiyskiy Meditsinskiy Zhurnal (Russian Medical Journal)
  • Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

  • Sources of primary data for official statistics. Changing priorities. Meeting of the Statistical Section of the Central House of Scientists
  • Happy anniversary to Oksana Vyacheslavovna Sinyavskaya
    • "We are more likely experiencing a demographic autumn, because the population of Russia is not yet that old" - interview with Oksana Sinyavskaya (HSE)

 
Return back
Return to the beginning

Sertificate of Mass Media Registration
Ýë # ÔÑ77-54569 of 21.03.2013
demoscope@demoscope.ru  
© Demoscope Weekly
ISSN 1726-2887