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World demographic barometer

Global fertility trends according to UN 2019 revision estimates

• 2019 World Fertility Database

• The number of births in the world has stabilized at around 140 million people per year and the total fertility rate is steadily decreasing, dropping to 18‰ in 2019

• The total fertility rate in the world on the whole has fallen below 2.5 children per woman

• Net reproduction rate has fallen below 1.1 daughters per woman

• The average age of a mother at birth is increasing and in 2015-2020 exceeded 28 years

• Fertility for females aged 15-19 years has decreased to 42‰

Q&A

• The future: two polls 20 years apart

• Ideas of a "normal life"

• What languages do people in European countries speak at home?

In the vastness of Russia

• Putin declares difficult demographic period in Russia

• Fertility in 2019 increased in only three regions

• Money cannot force a person to have more children than he wants

• Life expectancy in Russia has exceeded 73 years

• Sobyanin announces increase in life expectancy in Moscow

• Monthly payments for children will be extended up to 7 years

• Putin promises to increase maternity capital

• State Duma expands possible uses of maternity capital

• Putin estimates costs of family support promised in Presidential Address

• Will Putin's proposals not start economic growth?

• 355,000 fewer people retired in 2019

• Ministry of Justice has prepared new list of Soviet acts to be repealed

• Ministry of Labor will teach regions how to improve women's lives

• Teacher shortage in Russia

• Audit Chamber calls data on the quality of roads in Russia unreliable

• Topilin calls for not scaring Russians with robots and mass unemployment

• Almost twice as many Ukrainians received a Russian passport in 2019

• Senior officials will not be able to hold foreign citizenship or residence permit

• Authorities propose canceling planned inspections of migrant workers

• State Duma will clarify grounds for refugee status

• Cigarette prices up in Russia

• Because of smokers, Russia spends 1.3 trillion rubles annually

• Proposal in Russian Railways to double fines for drinkers and smokers on trains

• Ministry of Health has developed a new procedure for providing medical care to persons with HIV

• The number of deaths in traffic accidents in Moscow has decreased by 42% since 2010

• Russian schools have the highest student stress levels in world

• The number of mental disorders in Russian schools has grown by 20% in five years

• Putin demands that hot meals be provided to all pupils in grades one through four

• Ministry of Health opens hotline for mass medical examinations

• New wage system will be introduced in healthcare

• Primary health care to be modernized

• Private health care facilities will be able to provide home care for the elderly

• Due to massive disruptions in procurement, a number of regions have not received medicines

• Bastrykin complains about low level of responsibility for medical errors

World News

• China's population exceeds 1.4 billion

• South Korea's population increased by 0.05% in 2019

• Population of Lithuania has grown by 145 persons thanks to migrant workers

• Population of Ukraine shrinks to 41.9 million people

• China registers record low fertility

• Fertility in Latvia continues to decline

• Link found between a person’s life expectancy and income

• China registered 10 million fewer marriages in 2019

• China's urbanization rate reaches 60.6%

• IMF head predicts global Great Depression

• Two thousand billionaires have more money than 4.6 billion poor people

• Zelensky announces dual citizenship for repatriates from USA

• Uzbek citizens will be allowed to stay in the Russian Federation without registration for up to 15 days

• Uzbekistan simplifies registration procedure

• US wants to end maternity tourism

• Quotas for foreign workers in Kazakhstan reduced by 40%

• Flow of illegal migrants into EU falls by 92% in four years

• Asylum applications in France have increased

• Texas is first US state to refuse to accept refugees

• Mortality among white Americans without a higher education has increased in the USA

• Most women think abortion is the right decision

• New type of coronavirus spreads in China

• Over five hundred more babies will become godchildren of the Georgian Patriarch

The newspapers write about…

• Nakanune.RU, RT na russkom and Izvestiya on the President’s Address

• TASS on the implementation of last year’s Presidential Address

• Meduza, Novaya Gazeta, Gorod 812, Vedomosti, Russkaya Sluzhba BBC RBK, Snob, Nakanune.RU and Izvestia on a new pro-natalist measure

• RBK on the government’s new plans

• "Die Welt" on Russia’s demographic development

• Delfi.lv and Postimees on the migration crisis

• Glavred on Ukrainian migrants

• Vechernyaya Moskva on early pregnancy

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on young fathers

• Science on a new infection

• Rosbalt on cancer

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on life expectancy

• Kommersant on the demographic forecast

• Izvestia on Demography and Economics

• Gazeta.ru on loans for young families

• InoSMI.RU on French pension reform

• Salzburger Nachrichten and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on poverty

• Golos Ameriki on violence

• Forbes on gender development

• Le Figaro on childfree

• Novye Izvestia on organ donation

• The Village on online cemeteries

Read books and magazines

• Values of a family-with-children lifestyle (SEDOJ-2019)

• Health care in Russia. 2019

• Demographic situation in Georgia 2018

• Global Tuberculosis Report 2019

• Morbidity of the working-age population (age 55 and over for women, 60 and over for men) in Russia in 2018 with a first-time diagnosis

• Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Gigiena i Sanitariya (Hygiene and Sanitation)

• Contents of the journal Population and Environment

Profession: researcher

• 150 years since the birth of Sergei Mikhailovich Bogoslovsky

•     S. Bogoslovsky. The state of medical and statistical registration and reporting in the RSFSR