¹ 1051 - 1052
Demographic
Barometer
- BRICS mortality and fertility according to UN estimates
for 2024
- Life expectancy at birth ranges from 66 years in South
Africa to 83 years in the UAE
- Infant mortality in the BRICS ranges from 4‰ in Russia
to 33‰ in Ethiopia
- Mortality rates at ages 15–60 range from 30 deaths per
1,000 of those living to age 15 in the UAE to 270 in South
Africa
- Life expectancy at age 65 ranges from 13.3 years in Egypt
to 20.0 years in the UAE
- In Russia, fertility has been below replacement level since
the mid-1960s, in China and Iran since the 1990s, in Brazil
and the UAE since the 2000s, and in India since the late 2010s
- The average age of the mother at childbirth ranges from
27.5 years in India to 31.9 years in the UAE
Q&A
- Population size of Russia
- The 21st century grandmother
- Fresh air, friends and grandkids: how older Russians live
- A new era of sobriety
- 87% of urban youth are ready to consider moving to the countryside
if they can live and work comfortably there
In
the vastness of Russia
- Most Russians prefer marriage to cohabitation
- Maternity capital will be extended until 2030
- Some regions will pay women for early childbirth
- 81% of women who worked during pregnancy took parental leave
- The development of the institution of social nannies will be
included in the national project "Family"
- Over 60% of Russians oppose introduction of childlessness tax
- Will AI solve staffing shortage problem?
- State Duma continues fight against migrants
- Repatriates will be granted residence permits in a simplified
manner
- Migrants suspected of using children to obtain residence permit
- Rosstat announces changes in collection of migrant statistics
- 66,000 foreigners have failed Russian language exam
- Ministry of Education and Science proposes introducing uniform
prices for exams for migrants
- The number of migrants deported from Russia has increased by
one and a half times since 2015
- Kolokoltsev says regions not ready to deport migrants
- The number of illegal migrants has increased by 40% since the
beginning of the year
- The number of new cases of HIV infection has decreased by 1.5
times in 10 years
- Demographers see benefits in restricting the sale of alcohol
- Ministry of Health supports initiatives to reduce nicotine
consumption
- The number of deaths from malignant neoplasms has decreased
by almost 10%
- Tuberculosis mortality in Russia has decreased sixfold in 20
years
- More than 1,100 people in Russia get diabetes every day
- 70% of Russians with hepatitis C do not know about their diagnosis
- Almost every region has a shortage of healthcare specialists
World
News
- President of Cyprus calls demographic situation a major national
problem
- In England, fertility falls to its lowest level since 1938
- China’s Luyllan decides to pay brides under 35
- Due to departure of young people, Ukraine has closed more than
2,000 schools
- About 500,000 able-bodied Ukrainians in Germany receive social
benefits
- Uzbekistan to create Migration Agency
- Lithuania tightens rules for issuing residence permits
- In Germany, more than 53,000 unauthorized border crossings
were identified in 2024
- More than one hundred thousand people live illegally in Sweden
- Denmark ready for creation of centers for illegal immigrants
in third countries
- Attempts to limit sale of tobacco to young people have been
made in many countries around the world
- Quitting smoking after detection of a malignant tumor reduces
the risk of patient death
- WHO announces record level of tuberculosis over last 28 years
- About half a million children in Kenya suffer from malnutrition
- Global warming affected the number of deaths in Europe in the
summer of 2022
- Gas stoves blamed for deaths of 40,000
- The number of people infected with mpox in September was highest
ever
- Colorado and Maryland approve inclusion of right to abortion
in local constitutions
- Neural network taught to predict death from heart disease with
an accuracy of 78%
- Absence of family increases risk of developing depression by
80%
- Human body's ability to recover is depleted between 120 and
150 years
The
newspapers write about…
- RBK, Izvestia and Kommersant on the growing need for migrants
- Kommersant and RBK on Russia's migration policy through the
eyes of the Human Rights Council
- RBK on being stripped of Russian citizenship
- Kommersant on migrants and the Russian language
- Kommersant on the influx of foreign students to Russia
- Expert on the impact of migration on unemployment
- Novye Izvestia on migrant crime
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on demographic prospects in Russia
- RBK, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on demographic
policy in Russia
- Kommersant on pro-natalist policies in the world
- Izvestia on expanding the possibilities of using the maternity
capital
- Kommersant on student families
- Izvestia on reduction in the number of abandonments of children
in maternity hospitals
- Esli byt’ tochnym on childlessness
- Kommersant on women's employment in the labor market
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the development of the healthcare system
in Russia
- TASS on the obesity epidemic
- Kommersant on the dynamics of mortality from tuberculosis
- RBK on problems with purchasing tests for HIV diagnostics
- Novye Izvestia on vape ban
- Esli byt’ tochnym on the mortality of homeless people
- Expert on the development of small towns
- RIA Novosti on city rating
Read
books and magazines
- Spain. Health Systems in Transition
- Eurostat Regional Yearbook
- National composition, religion and language proficiency in
the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being
of the population in the Voronezh region in 2023"
- Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2023 (morbidity and mortality)
- Through the pages of the journals Eurostat Regional Yearbook
and Ekologiya Cheloveka (Human Ecology)
- Contents of the journal Population Studies
Profession:
researcher
- On the 80th anniversary of E.M. Andreev. Conference of the
International Laboratory for Population and Health Research of
the National Research University Higher School of Economics "Demographic
Problems of Russia in the 21st Century"
|