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Demographic barometer

• BRICS population estimates for 2024
  • The combined population of the BRICS countries is over 3.6 billion people, or about 45% of the world's population, but this share is declining
  • The main factor in population change in most BRICS countries is natural increase, in China and Russia - natural decline, in the UAE – net migration
  • The share of children under the age of 15 varies across the BRICS group from 16% of the population in the UAE to 39% in Ethiopia, while the share of the elderly 65 years and older ranges from 2% in the UAE to 17% in Russia
  • Populations are aging in all BRICS countries, but the degree of aging varies considerably

Q&A

• Childfree: is there any need to fight it?
• Russians oppose childlessness tax
• Divorces in Russia: VTsIOM monitoring
• Old age: does it have any advantages and should we prepare for it in advance?
• Russians consider the number of migrants in the country excessive

In the vastness of Russia

• Maternity capital has contributed to the birth of 2.5 to 3 million children
• More than 1 million people will use maternity capital in 2025
• Moscow Children's Ombudsman is against tax on childlessness
• Tax on childlessness did not affect fertility in the USSR
• State Duma Committee supports bill banning public childfree propaganda
• Majority of Russians consider fines for childfree propaganda pointless
• Russia to develop state standard for gift for newborns with patriotic symbols
• Social payments have ensured an increase in doctors in small towns
• In St. Petersburg, the profession with the greatest shortage is that of streetsweeper
• Relocators are threatened with seizure of property
• Government cuts in half quota for temporary residence permits
• The government does not support all ways to combat migration
• State Duma adopts law to combat fictitious marriages with foreigners
• Russians will face increased punishment for "rubber apartments"
• State Duma introduces extra-judicial blocking of sites offering illegal services to migrants
• In Omsk region, migrants will be banned from working in transport, education and health care
• Kotyakov proposes adjusting work patent system for migrants
• Moskalkova reports death of 398 border residents in 2 years
• The level of detection of malignant neoplasms in the Russian Federation at early stages has increased to 61%
• Ministry of Health has prepared changes to free medical care program
• Growth in health care costs in Moscow in 2025 will be 8%
• Ministry of Health plans to create about 100 centers for air ambulances

World News

• World population is more than 8.1 billion people
• UN updates Ukraine population estimate
• Chinese authorities plan selective population survey
• Busan decides to give money to couples for starting a romantic relationship
• Italy tightens ban on surrogacy
• Poland to consider draft law on same-sex marriages
• Ukrainian employers interested in men over 60
• Europe needs immigrants
• EU decides to tighten migration control on borders of Russia and Belarus
• Poland to present new migration strategy
• EU warns Poland against adopting new migration rules
• EC studies possibility of creating deportation centers for illegal immigrants outside EU
• France wants to negotiate with transit countries on expulsion of migrants
• Tajikistan concerned about violation of rights of its citizens in Russia
• About 1.2 million Lebanese have become refugees or displaced persons
• A quarter of surveyed refugees from Ukraine want to stay in Europe forever
• Kenya strengthens controls to combat Marburg fever
• Mpox and Marburg outbreaks may point to world's vulnerability to pandemics
• The number of fatal cases of monkeypox in Africa has exceeded one thousand
• WHO recognizes Egypt as malaria-free
• The effectiveness of antibiotics is rapidly falling
• World's first "stomach flu" vaccine has been created

The newspapers write about…

• Izvestia and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the childlessness tax
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Kommersant, Novye Izvestia and News.ru on the ban on propaganda of childlessness
• Kommersant on the attitude of Russian society to the ban on childfree propaganda
• Kommersant on the measures taken to increase fertility
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on new legislative initiatives of State Duma
• Kommersant, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and RBK on tightening migration policy
• Kommersant on the fight against fictitious marriages of foreigners
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on attracting migrants from "visa" countries
• Kommersant on the difficulties of the "spiritual and moral" component of the resettlement program
• Novye Izvestia on the termination of Russian citizenship for failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office
• Kommersant and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the shortage of workers in agriculture and industry
• Kommersant on the prospects for labor automation
• RBK on the underestimation of high-income groups in sample surveys
• Kommersant on World Bank report on combating poverty
• Kommersant on the decline in the number of graduates of a number of medical specialties
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the temporary increase in life expectancy in Russia
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the right to health
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestiya on diabetes treatment
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the creation of a genetic data bank
• Novye Izvestiya on factors contributing to the development of cancer
• Expert on the fight against obesity
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the increase in road accidents
• RBK on changes in the program of state guarantees for medical care
• Kommersant on program to combat high blood pressure

Read books and magazines

• The state of oncological care for the population of Russia in 2023
• Healthcare in the Republic of Tajikistan. 2024
• BRICS. Joint statistical publication 2023
• Child and adolescent health in Europe: progress report to 2021
• Materials for the state report on the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Kursk region in 2023
• Through the pages of the journals “Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny ("Problems of social hygiene, health care and history of medicine") and “Analiz riska zdorovyu” ("Health risk analysis")
• Contents of the journal "Genus"

Profession: researcher

• Congratulations to Evgeny Mikhailovich Andreev on his 80th birthday
  • Scientific publications of Evgeny Mikhailovich Andreev for 2020-2024
  • Andreev's theorem
• Happy birthday to Victoria Ivanovna Sakevich
  • Scientific publications of V.I. Sakevich for 2019-2024
• 80th anniversary of the birth of Alexey Yuryevich Shevyakov