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Demographic barometer

The populations of China, India, Africa: their demographic past, present and future

• India surpassed China in population in April 2023, estimates UN
• Before COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy at birth had reached 78 in China, nearly 71 in India, and 63 in Africa
• In China, fertility fell to the level of simple reproduction in the early 1990s, in India - in the early 2020s

Q&A

• 9 out of 10 Russians are satisfied with their marriage and relationships
• Russians name conditions for and obstacles to having a child
• Social payments
• Live long, live well!
• The COVID-19 pandemic
• Surrogate alcohol poisoning as a social problem
• One in eleven companies has remote employees working from abroad

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population decline in January-April came to 188,505 people
• The proportion of the Russian population aged 65 and over has doubled over the past 50 years
• Government to enshrine status of large families in law
• Ministry of Labor proposes to keep insurance payments for child care for working mothers
• Surplus profits of companies will go to support families with children
• Risk of employees moving abroad and loss of tax revenue stops Finance Ministry from raising personal income tax to 30% for Russian expats
• Siluanov calls return of pessimists to Russia his main KPI
• Viacheslav Volodin urges departed Russians to return before it’s too late
• Putin calls the departure of some Russians abroad probably a positive phenomenon
• Initiative to allow teachers without higher education to teach in Russian schools
• Demand for Chinese nannies has increased in Russia
• Will unified base for closing borders to conscripts be operational from October?
• HRC head again looking for a replacement for foreign migrants
• Golikova announces decrease in mortality from neoplasms in Russia
• Murashko notes a decrease in mortality from neoplasms among patients under 75 years of age
• Seven new methods of cancer treatment have appeared in Russia
• Clinics in dire need of measles vaccines
• In Russia in 2022, almost 90 thousand IVF procedures were carried out under the national project
• First results of expanded newborn screening
• A system of long-term care will appear in all Russian regions
• State Duma supports bill banning gender reassignment
• Transsexuals will continue to receive medical care after ban on gender reassignment

World News

• Canada's population hits 40 million
• Germany's population increased by more than 1 million in 2022
• Population of Poland has shrunk by 476,000 people in 10 years
• Asian and Northern European countries top world’s safest countries rating
• Estonia legalizes same-sex marriage
• Finland needs influx of immigrants for economic growth
• Kyrgyzstan seeks to increase social protection of Kyrgyz migrants in Russia
• EU agrees on radical reform of migration laws
• Tunisia opposes resettlement of migrants on its territory
• Hungary suggests EU abandon idea of forced migration
• Poland considers EU asylum reform unfair
• Post-COVID syndrome worsens quality of life more than stroke
• Diabetes drug reduces chances of post-COVID syndrome by 40%
• 700,000 people may be left without drinking water due to destruction of Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station
• Most heart attacks happen on a Monday
• Beijing to pay for citizens’ IVF and infertility treatment
• Japan passes law to raise age of consent

The newspapers write about…

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Russia's need for migrants
• TASS on migration influx into UK
• IA Regnum and Novye Izvestia on the return and non-return of IT specialists
• RBK on visas for Russian-speakers in Baltic countries
• Novye Izvestia on shortage of donor blood
• Kommersant on doctors with fake credentials
• Izvestia on unpreparedness for a new pandemic
• Kommersant on the new International Classification of Diseases
• RBK on child benefits spending
• Novye Izvestia on the closure of maternity hospitals
• Kommersant on women’s double burden
• Kommersant on bill banning childfree propaganda
• Novye Izvestia on idea of creating an institute for the study of LGBT
• RBK on Russian agglomerations
• RBK on UN Development Goals for 2050

Read books and magazines

• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in 2022
• Supplement to the European health report 2021
• Statistics on child 2022
• Carrying out onomastic analysis for mapping of Kazakh diaspora
• OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance 2022
• Through the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva (EKO) (Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (ECO))
• Contents of the magazine Population & Societes

Profession: researcher

• Two memorable dates of Georgy Alexandrovich Pavlov
• List of main publications of G.A. Pavlov on demography
• Pavlov G.A. Soviet censuses (1920-1959)
• "Carried off by death... On the losses of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War". Seminar of the A.G. Vishnevsky Institute of Demography.