"Demoscope Weekly" ## 903 - 904

In the issue:
Mortality in the EU- 27, preliminary estimates for 2020-2021. IMF study finds mothers of young children hit hardest by COVID-19. A third of American women have changed their reproductive plans due to pandemic. Protect from everything and once and for all - Lyubov Borusyak on "destructive content". 10 recommendations to help end HIV.

·           Mortality in the EU- 27, preliminary estimates for 2020-2021

o    In 2020 the number of deaths in the EU-27 increased by 14% compared to 2019

o    The excess number of deaths in 30 European countries for the year of the COVID-19 pandemic exceeded 750 thousand people

o    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected European countries to varying degrees and at different times

o    Life expectancy at birth has decreased in 22 EU-27 countries, including 9 countries for a year or more

o    Life expectancy at 65 has declined in 24 EU-27 countries

 

Take care of women

·          IMF study finds mothers of young children hit hardest by COVID-19

·          A third of American women have changed their reproductive plans due to pandemic

·          Protect from everything and once and for all - Lyubov Borusyak on "destructive content"

·          10 recommendations to help end HIV

 

In the vastness of Russia

·          About a quarter of Russian families live in private houses

·          Putin signs law to support families with children

·          Registration at the place of residence and stay will be simplified in July 2022

·          Three types of stay for migrants may appear in Russia

·          Ministry of Justice approves idea of ​​replacing labor migrants with prisoners

·          Russia needs millions of migrants, and two hundred thousand prisoners will not replace them

·          Putin directs that the acceptable proportion of migrant children in schools be determined

·          Medvedev allows possibility of compulsory vaccination against coronavirus

·          Putin considers compulsory vaccination inadvisable

·           Sobyanin complains about reluctance of Muscovites to get vaccinated

·          Proposal to add COVID vaccine to national vaccination schedule

·          Diseases of the circulatory system in COVID patients increase the risk of death by factor of 5

·          Less than half of HIV-infected Russians received year-long therapy last year

·          Ministry of Health announces decrease in the number of drug users in Russia

·          Almost 70% of Russians consider themselves to have a healthy lifestyle

 

World News

·          Beijing permanent population approaches 22 million

·          Does China plan to end birth control?

·          The maximum human life span is 150 years

·          Population census to begin in Kazakhstan on September 1

·          More than half of Belarusian families have one child

·          Belarus government to reduce parental leave

·          Working overtime leads to increased mortality

·          Japan changes its mind about toughening immigration laws

·          Immigrants will be able to enter the United States without health insurance

·          About 1.5 billion coronavirus vaccinations have been administered worldwide

·          WHO estimates that real mortality rate from coronavirus is several times higher than official one

 

The newspapers write about…

·           Gazeta.Ru on the reduction in healthy life expectancy due to coronavirus

·          The Economist on excess mortality due to coronavirus

·          Komsomolskaya Pravda on the coronavirus situation in Russia

·          Mel on measures to increase fertility

·           Kommersant on maternity capital for fathers

·           Helsingin Sanomat on the benefits of late motherhood

·          Forbes on the origin of monogamy

·          RBK on insufficient procurement of HIV drugs

·           Rossiyskaya Gazeta on amendments to the legislation on the status of foreigners

·           Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on replacing labor migrants with convicts

·          Der Spiegel on the late response to the onset of the coronavirus epidemic

·           Huangqiu Shibao on demographic policy in China

·          Foreign Affairs on the demographic situation in the United States

·           Izvestia on risk factors for mortality from external causes

·           Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on poverty reduction measures

 

Read books and magazines

·          Demographic development of Russia: trends, forecasts, measures

·          National tuberculosis prevalence surveys 2007-2016

·          Women and men of Kazakhstan 2015-2019

·          BRICS. Joint statistical publication 2020

·          The results of mass clinical examination of certain groups of the adult population of the Russian Federation in 2013-2018

·          Through the pages of the magazines Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Gigiena i Sanitariya (Hygiene and Sanitation)

·          Contents of the journal Population and development review

 

Profession: researcher

·          Congratulations to Jacques Vallin on his 80th birthday

·          Young scientists on topical problems of demographic science

·          Growing up in different social groups of Russian society

 

New in the reading room

·          Twenty-sixth annual demographic report "Population of Russia 2018"