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Regular version of the site

"Demoscope Weekly" ## 975 - 976

In the issue: Aging of the world population according to UN estimates of 2022. National projects 2022: the social sphere. 43% of Russian men would agree to take parental leave instead of their wife. 3 out of ten husbands help their wives with all household chores. 4 out of 10 workers fail to balance work and personal life. Emigration moods in Russia and the world. Your financial situation - and how to improve it?

 

Demographic barometer

·           Aging of the world population according to UN estimates of 2022

o    The elderly population continues to grow, especially rapidly in the world's less developed regions

o    The proportion of the world’s population aged 65 or over increased to 9.6 per cent in 2021 and will increase to 16.5 per cent by 2050, according to the United Nations medium-term projection

o    The demographic burden of older ages is growing, but the total burden of younger and older ages remains at a fairly stable level

o    At present mortality, 69% of boys and 79% of girls born live to the age of 65, to the age of 85 – 19% and 33%, respectively

 

Q&A

·          National projects 2022: the social sphere

·          43% of Russian men would agree to take parental leave instead of their wife

·          3 out of ten husbands help their wives with all household chores

·          4 out of 10 workers fail to balance work and personal life

·          Emigration moods in Russia and the world

·          Your financial situation - and how to improve it?

 

In the vastness of Russia

·          The population of the Russian Federation has decreased by half a million people

·          Infant mortality rate for 11 months of 2022 is 4.3 ppm

·          The best-known social support measure for Russians is the maternity capital

·          Starting February 1, the maternity capital will be indexed by 11.9%

·          Are draft deferments for fathers with many children still in effect?

·          Nine thousand illegally mobilized persons sent home

·           Auzan says replacing specialists who left Russia in 2022 will take 7-10 years

·          Migrants paid almost 32 billion rubles to the Moscow budget in 2022

·          In 2022, a 40% increase in the number of passports issued

·          Reception of applications for new type of passport temporarily suspended

·          State Duma simplifies renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship

·          Ministry of Health criticizes idea of online sale of alcohol

·          The number of smokers in Russia has decreased three times over 13 years

·          Almost 70% of Russians are in favor of a complete ban on the sale of vapes

·          January sees six-month low in deaths due to covid

·          About 4 million cancer patients in Russia

·          Newborns in Russia are tested for 36 genetic diseases

·          Ministry of Health reports 61% decrease in maternal mortality during childbirth

·          Organ donors will be able to undergo free medical examinations

 

World News

·          More than 60% of Japanese do not want to regulate the birth rate through tax increases

·           Borrell speaks of "demographic winter" in European Union

·          Kazakhstan updates rules for foreigners obtaining residence permits

·          Twenty states file lawsuit against Biden immigration program

·          By January 30, there were 92.4 thousand Ukrainian refugees in Austria

·          From October to December 2022, 12.5 thousand Russians entered the United States through Mexico

·          The number of Russians requesting asylum in Finland increased sixfold in 2022

·          WHO extends state of emergency in global health due to COVID-19

·          Global Covid deaths up 13% in four weeks

·          More than 80 thousand people died in China from COVID-19 after the lifting of anti-COVID measures

·          By 2040, cancer incidence will nearly double to 30.2 million new cases

·          Sepsis dramatically increases risk of heart failure

·          Australia first country to recognize ecstasy and psilocybin as drugs

·          Even a bad marriage is better for your health than being alone

 

The newspapers write about…

·          RBK and Novye Izvestia on Russia’s shrinking population

·           Izvestia on low fertility

·           Izvestia and The Spectator on stimulating fertility in Japan

·          Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the tasks of the national project "Demography"

·           Novye Izvestia on the demographic history of Russia

·          Kommersant on the need to liberalize migration legislation

·          RBK on persons who acquired Russian citizenship in 2022

·          Forbes on renunciation of Russian citizenship

·           Novye Izvestia on the prospects for relocators when returning to their homeland

·           Izvestia on the transitional stage of the coronavirus pandemic

·          Kommersant on measles

·          RIA Novosti on alcohol consumption

·           Novye Izvestia on the firing of doctors fighting for their rights

·           Novye Izvestia on the inaccessibility of medicines

·          IQ on the "sandwich generation"

·          Kommersant on the social support system

·          RBK on the reduced demand for food and goods for children

·          RBK on new payment scheme of unemployment benefits

·          Novaya Gazeta on protests against pension reform in France

·          Forbes on the history of the contraceptive access movement

·          RBK on maternity tourism

·           Novye Izvestia on the discussion of women's reproductive health

·           Novye Izvestia on proposal to use uterus of deceased women

 

Read books and magazines

·          Health at a glance: Asia/Pacific 2022

·          World Family Planning 2022

·          Demographic development of Russia in the context of national security

·          Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2021 (morbidity and mortality)

·          Women and men in Armenia, 2022

·          From the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Zdorovyedemografiyaekologiya finno-ugorskikh narodov (Health, demography, ecology of the Finno-Ugric peoples)

·          Contents of the magazine Demography

 

Profession: researcher

·          95 years since the birth of Sergei Petrovich Kapitsa

·          Excerpts from 2009 interview of S.P. Kapitsa with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty