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European demographic barometer

Pensioners and pensions in the EU-28

• At the beginning of 2016, there were more than 132 million pension recipients in the EU-28, which represents 26% of the population

• Spending on pensions in the EU-28 makes up 13% of GDP, including 10% of GDP on old-age pensions

• The average monthly old-age pension in 2015 ranged from €150 in Bulgaria to €2,213 in Luxembourg.

• 18% of people aged 65 years and older are at risk of poverty and social exclusion - from 10% in Denmark and France to 49% in Bulgaria

Q&A

• Happiness: what makes Russians happy?

• The horizon of planning the future

• 60% of Russians have not changed jobs in over 5 years

• Free medicine and compulsory health insurance as a guarantee of normal life for Russians

• When competing with men for jobs, women agree to a lower than market salary

In the vastness of Russia

• One in four retirees continues to work

• Is the middle class in Russia less than 13% of the population?

• One fifth of Russians have incomes sufficient only for basic products

• The minimum allowance for child care will grow by 47 rubles

• Russians have stopped planning their future for the next few years.

• Social well-being of Russians has deteriorated noticeably

• Moscow authorities tell of plans to develop the social sphere

• In Russia, a growing proportion of families where the wife is more educated than her husband

• 6 million Russians already on list of those forbidden to go abroad due to debts

• Government has reduced quota for temporary residence for foreigners

• Permissible shares of foreign workers have been set for 2019

• Is the government not interested in the opinion of the State Duma on the issue of migration?

• Sobyanin announces decrease in crime rate among migrants

• HIV patients will still receive treatment when moving to different region

• Ekaterinburg will join the Paris Declaration on the fight against AIDS

• Russia has over 3.5 million cancer patients

• In Russia, the most successful cancer treatments are of ovarian tumors in women and testicles in men

• 14,800 people have died in traffic accidents in Russia since the start of the year

• Ministry of Health chief has found alternative to Soviet assignment of doctors

• District GPs will no longer make house calls in Moscow

• Putin dissatisfied with the system of providing preferential medicines

• Russians left without life-saving medication

• Move to ban image of doctors from drug advertising

• Proposal to purchase medicines for children with rare diseases centrally

• Over 92% of Russians use mandatory health insurance

• Matvienko proposes to give Russians one more vacation - for mass medical examinations

• Russians approve sex ed classes in schools

• Experts propose to introduce excise taxes on "harmful" products

• In State Duma, idea to introduce excise tax on soda is explained

World news

• Over the year, the population of Kazakhstan has grown by almost 240,000 people

• Countries with the highest and lowest fertility named

• The lowest life expectancy in Western Europe is in Germany

• The third population census of Kazakhstan will be held from October 16 to November 14, 2019

• In Kazakhstan, issuing of passports in Latin alphabet will begin before 2025

• Residents of Ukraine travel to Poland much more often than to Russia

• Czech president criticizes UN agreement on migration

• Czech Republic will not sign UN Global Migration Compact

• Bulgaria intends to refuse Global Migration Compact

• Belgium does not intend to sign Global Migration Compact

• Poland and Israel refuse to sign Global Migration Compact

• Merkel supports UN Global Migration Compact

• European Commission has accused a number of countries of not knowing the content of the Migration Compact

• More than 36,000 people have emigrated from Lithuania in 9 months

• UN clarifies intentions of "migrant caravan" members

• US authorities intend to sharply limit the rights of "illegal immigrants"

• US court blocks Trump’s decree on illegal migrants

• Flow of refugees to EU down by 31%

• 74,000 refugees in Greece

• New authorities in Italy deny asylum to migrants in 75% of cases

• Most Italians against letting in migrants

• In 2018, almost 60,000 migrants have been detained in Turkey

• Number of migrants leaving France is up by 20%

• Pneumonia could kill 11 million children in the world by 2030

• WHO warns of danger of developing resistance to antibiotics in self-medication

• In Kirgizia, mark-up on vital medicines reaches 130%

• In Germany in 2017, 140,000 women became victims of domestic violence

• China to put medical consultation booths on streets

• 69-year-old Dutchman demands to be officially recognized as 49-year-old

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant” on national projects

• "REGNUM", "Kommersant" and "Russkaya Sluzhba BBC" on the new migration

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the budget for the “May decrees”

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the new migration policy

• “Russkaya Germaniya”, “7 Dnei”, “La Nacion » and « La Jornada » on the migration crisis in Europe and America

• "Rzeczpospolita" on Poland’s need of Ukrainian migrants

• “RBK”, “Novye Izvestiya”, “UNIAN” and “Project Syndicate” on inequality

• “Helsingin Sanomat” on a basic income

• “Gazeta.Ru” on the consumer basket

• “Kommersant” on the level of education in marriage

• “Eurasisches Magazin” and “Gazeta.Ru” on Russian women

• "BBC" on low fertility

• “EurasiaNet” on abortion in Russia

• “Medya Gunlugu” on parenting in Russia

• "SVT" on fatherhood in Russia

• "Izvestia" and "Kommersant" on taxes on harmful products

• "Wired Magazine" on factors of longevity

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the desire to change one’s age in his passport

• "Daily Mail" on changing sex

• “American Thinker” and “EurasiaNet” on transgender propaganda

• “Novye Izvestiya” on how to teach sex ed in schools

• "Gazeta.Ru" on calculating pensions

• “Novye Izvestiya” on health care reforms

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on palliative care

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the assimilation of Uighurs

• “Le Figaro” on the effects of the one child policy in China

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the number of weapons in Russia

• "REGNUM" on the problems of the Far East

• "REGNUM" on the demographic situation in the Tula region

• "Bild" on the camps for German prisoners-of-war

• "Novye Izvestiya" on the famine in Kazakhstan

• "Science" on the worst year in human history

• "Glavred" and "112.ua" on the demography of Ukraine

• "Fenix" on next generation toilets

Read books and magazines

• Population of Russia 2016

• World population in 2018

• A demographic perspective on gender, family and health in Europe

• Health, United States, 2017

• The role of public health organizations in addressing public health problems in Europe: The case of obesity, alcohol and antimicrobial resistance

• Through the pages of the journals “Gigiena i sanitariya” ("Hygiene and Sanitation") and “Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya” ("Sociological Studies")

• Contents of the journal “Population Bulletin”

Profession: researcher

• The dynamics of life expectancy in Russia over the past half century and the prospects for reaching 80+. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• The Famine in Ireland and Mass Migration: lessons for today. Scientific Seminar of the Institute of Demography of the HSE "The 21st Century Demographic Challenges"