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Demographic barometer

  • World population according to estimates of UN revision 2022. Part 1
    • In November 2022 world population will reach 8 billion people, and by the end of the century, with a 95% probability, 8.9 to 12.4 billion people
    • Approximately two-thirds of world's population growth by 2050 will be due to current youth age structure
    • 59% of world's population now lives in Asia, 18% in Africa; by the end of the century, these shares could be, respectively, 45% and 38%
    • Two thirds of world's population live in countries where fertility has fallen below 2.1

Q&A

  • True love
  • Being caring Russian style
  • The higher the position and salary, the shorter the maternity leave
  • "Non-traditional" relationships, their promotion and influence on sexual behavior
  • Who Muscovites consider the demographic enemy
  • Domestic tourism

In the vastness of Russia

  • Natural decline in the population of Russia slowed down in the first half of 2022
  • Life expectancy of Russians should reach 78 years by 2030
  • In Russia, the number of pensioners has decreased by 200 thousand
  • Pandemic caused short-term decline in Russian fertility
  • The number of people wishing to have a second child increased after introduction of maternity capital
  • State Duma allows use of maternity capital to pay for kindergartens
  • Ministry of Labor predicts increase in maternity capital for the next three years
  • Putin signs decree establishing the title "Mother Heroine"
  • Gender wage gap in Russia is 37.3%
  • Pensioners need 40 thousand rubles a month for a comfortable life
  • Acquisition of Russian citizenship simplified for residents of DPR, LPR and Ukraine
  • Have over 3.2 million refugees arrived in the Russian Federation from the territory of Ukraine and Donbass since February?
  • Moskalkova proposes to simplify registration of migrants from Donbass and Ukraine
  • Participants of compatriot resettlement program will be obliged to confirm their knowledge of the Russian language
  • Experts predict increase in COVID cases in September
  • Russian Ministry of Health chief urges Russians to wear masks and get revaccinated
  • Mortality in Russia due to Covid has peaked in last seven weeks
  • Rosavtodor reports 10% reduction in road fatalities
  • Pharmacies report shortage of IVF drugs
  • Half of Russians consider sexual orientation to be biologically determined

World News

  • The number of people on Earth will reach 8 billion by November 15, 2022
  • Will the world's population start shrinking before it hits 10 billion?
  • The population of the Republic of Korea decreased in 2021 for the first time since 1949
  • New Zealand sees lowest population increase in 36 years
  • China expects a population decline over the next five years
  • Sweden records lowest birth rate in 20 years
  • Fertility in Spain in the first half of 2022 fell to a record low
  • China trying to increase birth rate
  • 5,237 civilians killed in Ukraine over five months
  • Women in Afghanistan may lose opportunity to go to university
  • The number of students from China in the United States has fallen by half compared to the pre-pandemic period
  • Europe has over 6 million refugees from Ukraine
  • Sokhnut reports departure of 20,500 Jews from Russia after February 2022
  • Migrant schoolchildren in Italy are promised automatic citizenship
  • Swedish authorities intend to introduce language requirements for the naturalization of migrants
  • Germany promises to take in illegal migrants from Italy
  • Nearly 600 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide
  • Proposal to enshrine right to abortion in the French Constitution
  • US Congress passes bill to guarantee right to abortion
  • Is alcohol bad for people under 40?

The newspapers write about…

  • TASS on the population of the world’s countries
  • RBK on China’s impending population decline
  • RBK on forecasts of Russia’s population
  • Argumenty i fakty on population and labor force forecasts in Russia
  • Economy Times on the demographic situation in Russia and in the world
  • RBK on Russia’s fertility decline
  • RBK and Esli byt’ tochnym on late births
  • Izvestia on birth statistics
  • Kommersant and Forbes on labor registration in Russia
  • RBK on the problems of refugees from Ukraine in Russia
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on migrants with HIV
  • Kommersant on facilitating the relocation of workers
  • Kommersant on “rubber” apartments
  • Sobaka.ru on «new million-plus cities»
  • Kommersant on increased mortality of drug users during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Kommersant on diagnosing cancer
  • Polit.Ru on proposal to change law on protection of families and children
  • RBK on the fight against drunk driving
  • The Atlantic on the fight against COVID-19
  • Kommersant on domestic workers in Russian households
  • RBK on poverty during the sanctions crisis

Read books and magazines

  • World Population Prospects 2022
  • The age of migration: International population movement in the modern world
  • On the state of the sanitary and epidemiological flow of the population in 2021
  • Statistics on Child 2021
  • Key figures on Europe
  • Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsiya (Medico-Social Expertise and Rehabilitation)
  • Contents of the journal Demographic Research

Profession: researcher

  • 90 years since the birth of Mikhail Semenovich Bedny
  • Bedny M.S. Life expectancy in cities and villages
  • 150 years since the birth of Sergei Alexandrovich Novoselsky
  • Novoselsky S.A. Survival to military age in Russia

New in the reading room

  • Bedny M.S. Life expectancy in cities and villages

 
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