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Demographic barometer

  • Main demographic outcomes of 2021 in the European Union
    • The population of the EU-27 is shrinking for the second year in a row, having decreased by 172 thousand people in 2021
    • Natural population decline of the EU-27 continued to increase in 2021, with increased migration gain compensating for it by 86%
    • The number of births in the EU-27 fell slightly in 2021 to 9.1 per 1,000 people, as in 2020
    • In 2021, the number of deaths in the EU-27 continued to increase, rising to 5.3 million, or 11.9 per 1,000 people
    • The median age of the population of the EU-27 in 2021 exceeded 44 years

Q&A

  • Only 54% of patients understand why they need to treat arterial hypertension
  • Society under stress
  • Romir: sports save one in four Russians from stress
  • Man without a home
  • Church and society: monitoring

In the vastness of Russia

  • Special military operation will reduce fertility to record lows
  • Life expectancy in Russia down by 3.3 years due to covid pandemic
  • More than 268 thousand families have received maternity capital for second and subsequent children in 2022
  • Maternity capital funds allowed to be spent on tutors' services
  • Almost 4 million foreign passports issued in Russia in nine months
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs closes entry to Russia for tens of thousands of migrants
  • Airlines do not yet see a massive return of Russians to their homeland
  • Alcohol, drugs and suicide claim the lives of 70,000 Russians a year
  • Up to 250,000 Russians die from sudden cardiac arrest every year
  • Losses from seasonal outbreaks of SARS and flu comparable to those from coronavirus
  • Russians have begun getting into traffic accidents less often
  • Newborns in St. Petersburg will be examined more thoroughly from 2023
  • Services for blood and bone marrow donors have appeared at State Services
  • Increased sales of potency drugs and contraceptives in Russia
  • Golikova confident of possibility of import substitution of medicines
  • Ministry of Health denies decrease in number of clinical drug trials in Russia

World News

  • In mid-November, the number of people living on Earth will exceed 8 billion
  • Population of Kyrgyzstan reaches 7 million people
  • By 2035, the number of elderly people in China will exceed 400 million
  • In Kazakhstan, youth will be considered those under 35
  • Japan to provide birth allowance of $670
  • Afghanistan in last place in ranking of "strong" passports
  • Germany tightens conditions for issuing tourist visas to Russians
  • 75% of Australians support permanent visas for refugees
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says 112 thousand Russians have moved to the country since the beginning of the year
  • Armenia's GDP growing due to influx of Russians
  • Viktor Orban expects increased immigration of Western Europeans to Hungary
  • US labor market will face problems without new migrants
  • Germany and Italy will employ more than 1,000 labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan
  • European countries will not be able to quickly solve the problem of illegal migration
  • More than 29,000 migrants have died trying to reach EU countries since 2014
  • Worldwide Covid mortality down 13% over week
  • People who quit smoking before the age of 35 have almost the same mortality rates as those who never smoked
  • The number of cases of monkeypox in the world has decreased
  • Ebola kills 30 in Uganda in one month
  • Over 60,000 people die each year from snake bites

The newspapers write about…

  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on world population forecasts
  • Forbes on dual citizenship and mobilization
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on labor migration
  • Novye Izvestia on internal migration in Russia
  • Vesti.ua on Germany's need for migrants
  • Expert on employment and unemployment
  • Kommersant on the labor market and mobilization
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the marriage market
  • RBK on the risk of failure to achieve life expectancy targets
  • TASS on COVID-19 nasal vaccine
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the consequences of COVID-19 for children
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on HIV testing
  • RIA Novosti on plague pandemic
  • Kommersant on the price of a sedentary lifestyle

Read books and magazines

  • "Kazakhs in the context of demographic history" within the framework of the "Rukhani Zhangyru" program
  • Fertility transition in the developing world
  • Oral health care in Europe: financing, access and provision
  • Demographic situation in Georgia 2021
  • BRICS. Joint Statistical Publication 2022
  • Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Mir Rossii. Sotsiologiya i etnologiya (The World of Russia. Sociology and Ethnology)
  • Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

  • XI Valenteevsky readings "Population and sustainable development"
  • Sixth annual scientific conference of the consortium of journals of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University
  • Prospects for the use of data from mobile operators in order to form official statistical information on the size and migration of the population. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the CDU

 
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