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Demographic barometer

• World population according to estimates of UN revision 2022. Part 2
  • During the two years of the pandemic, life expectancy decreased by 1.8 years, coming to 71.0 years in 2021, but by the middle of the century it may exceed 77 years
  • Mortality, according to UN forecast, will return to a long-term downward trend in the coming years
  • More developed countries have received over 2 million “net” migrants every year, even during the pandemic
  • World population continues to age - the proportion of older people aged 65 has risen to 10% and could reach 16% by 2050
  • Significant differences persist in the age composition of the populations of the world’s regions

Scientific Digest

• Pavel Polyan. Kyiv without Jews: the demography of Babi Yar

Q&A

• Family, safety and reliability are the main values ??of Russians
• Divorce: "good" and "bad" reasons
• Financial assistance from the state: who Russians think most need support
• Smoking in Russia: monitoring
• Americans and alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana
• Russian workers or migrant workers?

In the vastness of Russia

• Rural Mortgage Program will become permanent
• Spending on maternity capital fell due to a decrease in the number of births
• Women with title of "Mother Heroine" will receive 1 million rubles
• Labor Ministry expects unemployment to rise in autumn
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs suspends issuance of 10-year foreign passports
• Nearly 1 million Russians have crossed EU borders since February 24
• More than 3.5 million refugees from Ukraine and Donbas have arrived in Russia since February
• Residents of Donbass allowed to stay in Russia indefinitely
• Russian Security Council to discuss migration issues in September
• Does Russia need adaptation centers for migrants?
• Head of Russia’s Human Rights Council proposes that schools not accept migrant children with a poor knowledge of Russian
• Daily number of COVID-19 cases in Russia may reach last winter’s numbers
• Covid morbidity in Russia increased by 5.4 times in August
• Clinical trials of two nasal Covid vaccines begin in Russia
• Rospotrebnadzor recommends that regions vaccinate at least 60% of the population against influenza
• The number of road accidents in Russia with victims decreased by 6.5% over seven months

World News

• The population of South Korea decreased by 0.3% for the year
• Life expectancy in the US sets hundred-year decline record
• Life expectancy in the US consistently lags behind other developed countries
• The number of people aged 65 and over in Switzerland grew by almost 2% over year
• Latvia Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to suspend the issuance of repeat residence permits to Russians
• Salvini proposes to bring back previous restrictions on illegal migration
• Sweden wants to tighten labor and migration laws
• Not everyone in Japan likes government’s alcohol promotion campaign
• More than a third of cancer deaths are linked to smoking and other bad habits
• The number of cases of coronavirus infection in the world has exceeded 600 million
• A patient with COVID-19 can remain contagious for more than 7 days
• Coronavirus situation in Germany may worsen in autumn
• Excess mortality in Britain may be linked to lockdowns
• Italy heat wave has dramatically increased the number of deaths
• WHO calls for simultaneous vaccination against COVID-19 and influenza
• More than a third of the world's monkeypox cases are in Europe

The newspapers write about…

• RIA Novosti and The Epoch Times on the population of China
• Esli byt’ tochnym on how Russia missed the second "epidemiological revolution"
• RIA Novosti on mortality in prisons
• Kommersant on unemployment, the labor market and the Russian middle class
• HSE Daily on intergenerational transfers
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Izvestia on adaptation centers for migrants
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Izvestia on measures to support fertility
• Forbes on the right age to have a baby
• Novye Izvestia on a proposal to regulate the age difference between dating girls and young men
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the results of the university admission campaign

Read books and magazines

• World Health Statistics 2022
• World report on the health of refugees and migrants
• World Population Prospects 2022: Methodology of the United Nations Population Estimates and Projections
• A review of Georgian emigrants
• Why demography matters
• Through the pages of the journals Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Zhurnal issledovaniy sotsialnoy politiki (Journal of Social Policy Research)
• Contents of the magazine Demography

Profession: researcher

• Happy 70^th birthday to Pavel Markovich Polyan!
• 90 years since the birth of Natalia Mikhailovna Rimashevskaya