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Demographic barometer

• European Union population forecast 2023
  • The population of the EU-27 at the beginning of 2022 was, according to Eurostat, 446.7 million people
  • Main forecast hypotheses foresee convergence of mortality, fertility and migration growth in the EU-27 countries
  • According to the main forecast option, the population of the EU-27 will continue to grow until 2026, when it will exceed 453 million people, and by the end of the century will decrease by 6% to 419 million people
  • All forecast options show the inevitability of further aging of the EU-27 population
  • Natural decrease is inevitable, migration growth will partially compensate for it

Q&A

• Who’s the boss in the house: the opinion of Russians about the head of the family and the distribution of household chores
• Personal life and Tinder: what’s the best way to meet?
• Only one in 5 Russians is convinced that the childhood of modern children is happier than their own.
• Russians on plans to go for state check-up
• Anti-tobacco law in Russia: ten years without cigarettes?

In the vastness of Russia

• Yakutia expects to reach 1 million people by 2023
• Total fertility rate of first children over past six years has decreased by 20%
• Russia registers record decline in birth rate
• Ministry of Labor predicts 33.8% decrease in the number of women aged 30-39 by 2030
• Russian regions to approve birth rate stimulus programs by July 1
• Difference in mortality rates between urban and rural populations has almost halved
• Half of Russians not ready for unforeseen expenses
• The number of Russians with above-average income has increased by 9.4 million
• Government supports bill to raise upper limit of draft age as of 2024
• PhDs and Doctors of Science will not be exempted from mobilization
• Ministry for Development of the Far East sees an influx of young people to Far East
• Russia simplifies renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship
• Ministry of Labor adjusts quotas for attracting migrants from visa countries
• Pilot regions for testing migrant adaptation programs are named
• Human Rights Court will take care of children of migrants
• Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to cancel Russian language exam for immigrants from Western countries
• Over last ten years the percentage of smokers in Russia has decreased from 41% to 30%
• The number of respiratory diseases has increased by almost 9% since 2020
• Rostelecom to launch electronic register of blood donors

World News

• Population of Austria exceeds 9 million
• Half of Africa's population in the coming years will be under 25
• Japan birth rate fell to 777,000 in 2022
• Japan intends to catch up with Sweden in terms of support for families with children
• Belstat opened access to census microdata in 2022
• Labor shortage threatens Germany's economic growth
• In 2022, a record number of Russians became US citizens
• EU adopts new plan to combat illegal migration in the Mediterranean
• Germany intends to tighten control on Polish border due to illegal migration
• The number of labor migrants from Russia has increased in Armenia and Kazakhstan
• WHO reports 39% drop in COVID-19 deaths in four weeks
• Does quitting smoking improve mental health?
• By 2040, the number of cancer patients in the world will increase by a third
• New drug cuts lung cancer deaths in half
• Biological cause of sudden infant death syndrome has been found
• UK to conduct experiment on impact of unconditional basic income on people's behavior

The newspapers write about…

• RBK on Russia’s decreasing birth rate
• RBK on the decline in Ukraine’s population
• RBK and Novye Izvestia on a decline in the percentage of the poor
• Kommersant on the role of social contracts in reducing poverty
• Izvestia on the growth in the number of Russians with an above-average income
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the relationship between poverty and morbidity
• Novye Izvestia on the growth of the incidence of infectious diseases
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the decline in human capital
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the challenges of social support
• The Economist on the new wave of migration in the world
• RBK on fines for not accepting refugees
• Novye Izvestia on tightening requirements for obtaining Israeli passport
• Kommersant on proposal for mandatory job assignments for medical university graduates
• IA Regnum on a healthy lifestyle
• RBK on discussion of bill banning gender reassignment

Read books and magazines

• World Health Statistics 2023: monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals
• HIV infection. Newsletter No. 47
• Road Safety Annual Report 2022
• Demographic Statistics 2021
• A study of labor migration in three cities of Kazakhstan: Almaty, Astana and Shymkent
• Through the pages of the journals DEMIS and Regionalnye issledovaniya (Regional Research)
• Contents of the magazine Population and Environment

Profession: researcher

• 95 years since the birth of Alexander Yakovlevich Kvasha
  • From the unpublished works of A.Y. Kvasha. Chapter VIII. Methodology for calculating demographic losses in war (From the unpublished textbook "Military Demography", 1991)
• On the reliability and comparability of the results of the All-Russia 2021 census. Seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research
• Happy birthday to Irina Aleksandrovna Zbarskaya