"Demoscope Weekly" ## 929 - 930
In the issue:
In the EU-27 live about 68 million children under 15 and 74 million young people aged 15-29. "The fifth wave" and how to deal with it? Church and State. One out of three Russians don’t know how their pension is calculated. Only one out of twenty considers the pension system fair. Russians believe that the minimum wage should be 2.5 times higher. Potential for internal urban-rural migration.
In this issue:
· In the EU-27 live about 68 million children under 15 and 74 million young people aged 15-29
o Males outnumber females in all ages under 30
o Average age of leaving home is 26.4 years for the EU27 as a whole, but varies markedly across countries, from 17.5 years in Sweden to 32.4 years in Croatia
o A trend towards higher age at first marriage is observed in recent decades in all countries of the European Union
o Average age of a mother at first birth is over 29 in the EU-27, ranging from 26 in Bulgaria to 31 in Italy and Spain
o Child and youth mortality continues to decline in EU countries
· Newsletter "Population and Society" resumes publication
· Alexey Shchur. Differences in life expectancy by types of settlements in Russia
· "The fifth wave" and how to deal with it?
· Church and State
· One out of three Russians don’t know how their pension is calculated. Only one out of twenty considers the pension system fair
· Russians believe that the minimum wage should be 2.5 times higher
· Potential for internal urban-rural migration
· Natural decline in population of Russia has increased by 64%
· Mortality in November increased by 17% compared to the same period of the previous year
· Rosstat to release first census data in April
· Ministry of Health invites Russians to learn about "lost years of life"
· Far East residents are promised a million rubles for third child
· Ministry of Labor announces increase in minimum maternity benefits in 2022
· Disability pensions will be assigned without need for application
· The number of working young Russians has decreased by 460 thousand
· Outflow of population from Far East continues
· Medvedev predicts increase in influx of migrants to Russia
· Marriage and children stamp in passport will become optional
· Putin submits bill to State Duma simplifying acquisition of Russian citizenship
· Russia introduces institution of termination of citizenship of the Russian Federation
· More than 7 million migrants have received permission to stay in Russia in last 2 years
· Russia reduces Covid quarantine to seven days
· Could Moldova's population be less than 2.6 million?
· Estonia has negative population growth in 2021
· China intends to increase life expectancy by a year in five years
· In Germany, the number of deaths over year exceeded 1 million
· Romania records highest death toll in 30 years
· Fertility in China falls to lowest level since 1949
· Serbia will pay €850 for second and third child
· South Korea capital to stimulate fertility
· 60% of Ukrainian citizens risk being left without pensions in 30 years
· Will Germany face a shortage of 5 million workers by 2030?
· The number of labor migrants from Belarus in Poland has increased by 16 times since 2008
· About 200,000 illegal migrants arrived in the EU over past year
· UN announces tenfold increase in the flow of refugees in the Sahel
· Over past week 15 million new COVID-19 cases in the world
· WHO warns of three difficult months of pandemic
· Will there be new strains of COVID-19 after Omicron?
· Novaya Gazeta, RBK and Izvestia on the labor shortage
· Rossiyskaya Gazeta on internal migration
· RBK on the simplification of the procedure for obtaining citizenship
· Russkaya sluzhba BBC on new strain of Covid-19
· Izvestiya on consequences of the coronavirus
· Novaya Gazeta on access to medical care
· RBK on the standard of living
· Al Jazeera on sanitation
· The demographic health of Russia’s regions
· Demographic Yearbook of Russia 2021
· Preserving Russia’s population: health, employment, level and quality of life
· Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2020 (morbidity and mortality)
· Women and men of Kazakhstan 2016-2020
· Through the pages of the journals Obshchestvennoye zdorov'ye (Public Health) and Zdorov'ye, demografiya, ekologiya finno-ugorskikh narodov (Health, demography, ecology of the Finno-Ugric peoples)
· Contents of the journal Demographic Research
· A year has passed since Anatoly Grigorievich Vishnevsky is no longer with us
· My best editor and longtime co-author: in memory of A.G. Vishnevsky (1935-2021)
· Speech by A.G. Vishnevsky at the symposium on March 30 (1987-1988?)
· The epidemic yesterday and today: plague as a factor in changing demographic processes (using the example of mortality and migration in England of the 17th century)