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Regular version of the site

"Demoscope Weekly" ## 923 - 924

In the issue: 
Population aging in the European Union 2021. Russian healthcare: opinions and trends. Eastern Europe has the worst female health indicators in Europe. "Presidential payouts". Portrait of a modern mom. Labor immigrants in Russia: their contribution, position, and attitudes towards them. Census 2020.

In this issue:

 

Demographic barometer

·           Population aging in the European Union 2021

o    Age structure of EU-27 population continues to change

o    The number of persons 65 and over reached 92 million in 2020, accounting for 20.6% of the EU-27 population

o    Growth of the share of the population 65 years and older will continue until the end of the 21st century, although it will significantly slow down in its second half

o    With low fertility or zero migration, the demographic burden of older ages could double in the last quarter of the 21st century

o    The proportion of those living to the age of 65 exceeds 84% for men and 92% for women

o    Life expectancy at age 65 has exceeded 20 years in EU-27

 

Q&A

·          Russian healthcare: opinions and trends

·          Eastern Europe has the worst female health indicators in Europe

·          "Presidential payouts"

·          Portrait of a modern mom

·          Labor immigrants in Russia: their contribution, position, and attitudes towards them

 

Census 2020

·          The census continues

·          Census exceeds all expectations

·          About 25 million Russians took part in census through State Services portal

·          "Bad practice".  Russian population census completed as  COVID-19 wave hits

·          More than 80% of population in Russia enumerated from various sources

·           Rosstat plans to publish first data on the number of residents of the Russian Federation at the end of January

·          About 11 million people live in the Moscow region according to the preliminary results of the census

·          Petersburg remains in fourth place in terms of population

·          For those who are 99, 100 is no limit

·           Rosstat chief explains where the participation of "more than 100%" of the population in the census came from

·          Russia not found at home

·          There are big lies, there are elections, and then there is the population census

·          "Crime, savagery, stupidity." Independent demographer on the population census in the Caucasus

·          "The state does not want to see this country." What is known about the results of the population census in Russia and whether can they be trusted

·          Sergei Medvedev on the population census

·          The people's news: Tomsk woman tells of being forced to "invent" personal data for census

 

In the vastness of Russia

·          Russia has the largest losses in the level of life expectancy in 2020

·          Employment in Russia has exceeded pre-pandemic level

·          Russian citizens will be able to register at their place of stay online

·          Price of work licenses for labor migrants will rise in Moscow starting in 2022

·          Migrants may be required to provide certificates of absence of HIV infection

·           Sobyanin gives orders to reduce the number of migrants at construction sites in Moscow

·          Almost half of Russians are sure that labor migrants take their jobs

·          More than 800 thousand citizens of the CIS countries are illegally in Russia

·          Migrants legalized through registry offices

·           Murashko announces stabilization of HIV epidemic in Russia

·          More than 10% of prisoners in Russia are infected with HIV

·          Are statistics on all aspects of the pandemic reported to the public without falsification?

·          Russia registers Covid vaccine for adolescents

·          The only side effect of the children’s Covid vaccine is fever

 

World News

·          Germany's population has more than quadrupled in the last 200 years

·          Over 1.1 million people have left Uzbekistan in last 20 years

·          China has record low number of marriages

·          4% of South Korea's population are foreigners

·          Will nearly 25% of Israel's citizens be ultra-Orthodox by 2050?

·          Tajikistan introduces visa-free regime for citizens of 52 countries

·          German companies may experience severe labor shortages by 2035

·          Labor migration from Ukraine reaching pre-pandemic level

·          Japan may expand the entry of foreign workers for permanent residence

·          UN estimates number of refugees in the world at 84 million

·          French authorities warn of lightning-fast spread of new wave of COVID-19

·          Pfizer's two doses of vaccine wane over time regardless of a person's age

·          European Medicines Agency approves Pfizer vaccine for children 5+

·          7 million people die annually from air pollution worldwide

·          45 transgender people killed in the US in 2021

 

The newspapers write about…

·           Gazeta.RuKommersant, Novaya Gazeta, Jyllands-Posten on the migration crisis on the border with Poland and Belarus

·          Novaya Gazeta and Vazhnie Istorii on migrant crime

·          Radio Ozodi on labor migrants changing surnames

·          Novaya Gazeta on migrants and the labor market

·          Forbes on fake coronavirus vaccination certificates

·          Le Figaro on vaccinated persons getting Covid

·          The New Yorker on mortality from coronavirus in Russia

·          RIA Novosti on the coronavirus situation in Moscow

·           Izvestia on criminal cases against anti-vaxxers

·          Inosmi.RU on Israel’s experience in the fight against coronavirus

·           Suddeutsche Zeitung on coronavirus in Germany

·           Kommersant on the maternity capital

·          RBK on the difficult financial situation of Russians

·           Nezavisimaya Gazeta on pension savings

·          Le Figaro on demographic problems in China

·           Dagens Nyheter on obstetrics

 

Read books and magazines

·          Global Tuberculosis Report 2021

·          Adolescent health and the environment: changes over the past 20 years

·          Paternal involvement in Belarus: the current situation and the concept of promotion

·          Population of Ukraine for 2020

·          General morbidity in the child population of Russia (0-14 years old) in 2020

·          Through the pages of the magazines Analiz riska zdorovyu (Health Risk Analysis) and Uroven’ zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii (Living Standards of the Population of Russian Regions)

·          Contents of the journal Population and Environment

 

Profession: researcher

·          "Differences in mortality between men and women in developed countries." Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central Dispatch Office of the Russian Academy of Sciences

·          150th anniversary of the birth of Vasily Grigorievich Mikhailovsky

·           Zhanna Antonovna Zayonchkovskaya dies

o    In memoriam

o     Zayonchkovskaya Zh.A. Rural-urban migration as a geographic and political phenomenon