"Demoscope Weekly" ## 905 - 906
In the issue:
EU-27 households, 2010-2020. New measures to support families with children: pros and cons. The welfare state and taxes: in search of a balance. Health and nutrition of Russians: monitoring. A healthy lifestyle for Russians means sport, the absence of bad habits and a healthy diet. Emigration.
o The number of private households increased in the EU-27 by 7%, the average size decreased to 2.3 persons
o The number of households with only one adult increased by 19%
o The share of households with children decreased from 31% in 2010 to 29% in 2020
o Among the population 15 years and older, the share of those living alone has increased significantly
o Women are more likely than men to live with their children in middle age and to live alone at older ages
o Average age on leaving the parental home in 2020 was 26.4 years
· New measures to support families with children: pros and cons
· The welfare state and taxes: in search of a balance
· Health and nutrition of Russians: monitoring
· A healthy lifestyle for Russians means sport, the absence of bad habits and a healthy diet.
· Emigration
· The decline in the population of Russia has nearly doubled in 2021
· The number of marriages has almost halved over last 30 years
· Families where children start school at the age of six will receive payment of 10 thousand rubles.
· Vaccination in the 20th century contributed to a 25-year increase in life expectancy
· 55% of Russians are not afraid of contracting coronavirus
· Russia accused of understating the number of deaths from COVID
· Mortality from alcohol has increased in Russia
· Electronic death certificates will start being issued from September 1
· One in five Russians would like to emigrate from the country
· The number of labor migrants in Russia has decreased by a third
· Plans to bring 300 thousand migrants to Russian construction sites
· Government considering option of simplified entry of migrants coming to work on construction sites
· Minimum requirements for migrant examination approved
· Government plans to vaccinate foreigners working in Russia
· Births in Japan drop to lowest since 1899
· Experts question increase in China birth rate after allowing three children
· The population of Nur-Sultan has exceeded 1.2 million people
· More than 600 thousand citizens of Moldova have received Romanian passports over last 20 years
· Biden intends to speed up issuance of visas and green cards
· EU may tighten rules for issuing Schengen visas
· Biden repeals another Trump immigration law
· Poland will create jobs for returning emigrants
· European Parliament approves introduction of digital COVID certificates
· Active vaccination will reduce risk of spreading new strains
· Number of smokers worldwide hits record 1.1 billion
· Are 37% of deaths from abnormally hot weather the result of global warming?
· In South Africa, woman sets world record by giving birth to ten babies
· RBK, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Project Syndicate on China's changed fertility policy
· IQ on the preference for sons
· Hromadske on fertility in Ukraine
· Polit.ru on the effectiveness of the fight against COVID-19 in Moscow
· RBK on the revision of mortality from COVID-19
· Otkrytye Media on excess mortality
· RBK on road traffic deaths in Russia during lockdown
· N + 1 on malaria deaths
· Kommersant on the reduction of the number of foreigners in Russia
· Izvestia on the national question
· Demographic outlook for the European Union
· Spending on health in Europe: entering a new era
· Children and youth in Georgia
· OECD labor force statistics 2020
· Multiple indicator cluster survey 2019. Turkmenistan
· Through the pages of the journals Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny (Problems of Social Hygiene, Health Care and History of Medicine) and Povolzhskiy onkologicheskiy vestnik (Volga Region Oncological Bulletin)
· Contents of the Journal of Demographic Economics
· Congratulations to Nikita Vladimirovich Mkrtchyan on his 50th birthday!
o List of works by N.V. Mkrtchyan
· The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia (April 2020 - March 2021). Scientific seminar "Modern Demography" of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics