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"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1023 – 1024

In the issue: Preliminary demographic results for 2023 in Russia (part II). The ideal age to get married. Modern women: between work and family. Most Russians believe that a woman can combine a successful career and motherhood. More families have separate budgets. A growing number of supporters of bill to abolish personal income tax for large families. Russians' attitude towards IVF. Child well-being index. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists. "Son preference" as a fertility factor in the countries of the Middle East and Central Asia: the experience of cohort comparison. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography "Demographic challenges of the 21st century".

Demographic barometer

  • Preliminary demographic results for 2023 in Russia (part II)
    • The number of deaths in Russia has decreased for the second year in a row, coming to about 1.8 million people in 2023, or 12 per 1,000 people
    • The number of deaths decreased as a result of a decrease in mortality in all ages except for those aged 20-24 and 25-29 years
    • According to preliminary data, life expectancy at birth has exceeded 73 years
    • Differences in life expectancy at birth between Russian regions have decreased to 12 years
    • Standardized mortality rates for men vary across Russian regions from 743 to 1,965 per 100,000 people, for women - from 487 to 1,022 per 100,000 people
    • Infant mortality in Russia, according to preliminary data for January-December 2023, decreased to 4.2‰

Q&A

  • The ideal age to get married
  • Modern women: between work and family
  • Most Russians believe that a woman can combine a successful career and motherhood
  • More families have separate budgets
  • A growing number of supporters of bill to abolish personal income tax for large families
  • Russians' attitude towards IVF

In the vastness of Russia

  • Life expectancy in Russia is 73.46 years
  • Putin announces need to reach life expectancy of 80+
  • The number of Russians over 60 years old will increase by 2 million by 2030
  • The number of lonely elderly people in the Russian Federation has approached 10 million
  • Infant mortality in Russia is 4.1 ppm
  • Putin intends to achieve sustainable fertility growth in the Russian Federation in the next 6 years
  • Can sustainable population growth in Russia be ensured by raising children as future fathers and mothers?
  • President links decline in birth rate in Russia to lifestyle and level of well-being
  • Regions with low fertility will receive additional funding
  • In Russia, 13.9 million families have received maternity capital certificate
  • The number of Russians living below the poverty line fell to 13.5 million in 2023
  • Putin announces new national projects
  • Shortage of workers in Russia explained by import substitution and demographic pit
  • Ministry of Economic Development estimates women's domestic work at 13% of GDP
  • “Tourist card” for foreigners will be fully launched in Russia before the end of the year
  • The number of new cases of HIV infection in Russia has decreased by 30% over past five years.
  • Since 2012, 65 thousand health workers have participated in the “Zemsky Paramedic” and “Zemsky Doctor” programs
  • A shortage of measles vaccine has been recorded in Russian regions

World News

  • Ukraine's population has dropped by seven million people since 2022
  • South Korea sets new world record for low fertility
  • Over the past 11 years, fertility in Ukraine has been decreasing annually by approximately 7%
  • China intends to improve policy instruments to support fertility
  • China plans to create 12 million new jobs in 2024
  • Trump promises to immediately close the US border if re-elected
  • Since 2022, over 1.4 million Ukrainian citizens have crossed the border of Moldova
  • Mexico, US and Guatemala agree to work together to fight illegal migration
  • According to Trump, the number of illegal migrants in the United States has reached 15 million
  • Poland will demand preferences under the new migration pact
  • EU registers seven-year record number of asylum applications
  • Prime Minister of Saxony proposes to set upper limit for admission of refugees to 60 thousand per year
  • French Parliament enshrines right to abortion in constitution
  • The number of obese people in the world has exceeded 1 billion
  • Uzbekistan adopts law banning corporal punishment of children

The newspapers write about…

  • TASS and Kommersant on new national projects
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on attracting migrants from foreign countries
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on the effectiveness of the compatriot repatriation program
  • Kommersant on simplifying compatriot repatriation procedure
  • RBK on Russians who have moved to Argentina
  • Kommersant on the problems of labor migrants
  • Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on housing for migrant workers
  • Kommersant and TASS on the most popular job openings
  • Novye Izvestia on the number of pensioners
  • Novye Izvestia on the difference in income between pensioners and working Russians
  • Kommersant and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on replenishing human resources
  • Kommersant on fight against outflow of personnel in medicine
  • RBK on record length of working day
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on continuing education
  • RBK on the seasonality of births
  • Novye Izvestia on protecting the rights of single mothers
  • Kommersant on proposal to include postpartum support program in compulsory medical insurance
  • Kommersant on proposal to spend maternity capital on medical care for children
  • Kommersant on healthy lifestyle trend
  • Kommersant on the sale of an unregistered and dangerous contraceptive drug
  • Novye Izvestia on an increase in the use of antidepressants
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on the influence of a defendant's gender on the verdict in murder cases
  • Novye Izvestia on a possible raising of retirement age in China

Read books and magazines

  • Beating cancer inequalities in the EU
  • Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2022 (morbidity and mortality)
  • Tracking universal health coverage: 2023 global monitoring report
  • Regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2023
  • Factors of fertility growth in the Republic of Uzbekistan after 2017
  • Through the pages of the journals Voprosy Onkologii (Oncology Issues) and Sotsiologiya Meditsiny (Sociology of Medicine)
  • Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

  • Child well-being index. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
  • "Son preference" as a fertility factor in the countries of the Middle East and Central Asia: the experience of cohort comparison. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography "Demographic challenges of the 21st century"

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