"Demoscope Weekly" ## 915 - 916
In the issue:
Demographic results for the first half of 2021 in Russia (part II). Surrogacy: pros and cons. Coronavirus and vaccination. Residents of developed countries have given a mixed assessment of the actions of the authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bucking the global trend: most Russians do not want to send relatives to nursing homes. If not Russia, then the United States, Canada, Italy or Switzerland: a rating of the best countries to live in according to Russians.
In this issue:
· Demographic results for the first half of 2021 in Russia (part II)
o million people died in the first half of 2021, which is 16% more than in the same period of 2020
o Life expectancy at birth decreased by 1.8 years in 2020 to 71.5 years
o 2020 saw an increase in mortality from all major classes of causes of death except for some infectious and parasitic diseases and neoplasms; the number of deaths from COVID-19 exceeded the number of deaths from external causes
o More than 90% of those who died from certain infectious and parasitic diseases and 78% of those who died from external causes did not reach the age of 65; among those who died from COVID-19, 28% did not reach it
o Infant mortality in the first half of 2021 was 4.3 ‰
o For January-July 2021, according to Rosstat estimates, 204,200 deaths were registered with an established diagnosis of COVID-19
· Surrogacy: pros and cons
· Coronavirus and vaccination
· Residents of developed countries have given a mixed assessment of the actions of the authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic
· Bucking the global trend: most Russians do not want to send relatives to nursing homes
· If not Russia, then the United States, Canada, Italy or Switzerland: a rating of the best countries to live in according to Russians
New/old rubric: Population census 2020
· Government approves new dates for All-Russian Population Census
· Dates confirmed for All-Russian Population Census
· Before starting: Russian Government discusses census preparations
· August stage of census in remote regions of Yakutia has ended
· On the growth of the population of the city of Sevastopol and the paradoxes of statistics
· In Russia, almost a third of deaths are among citizens of working age
· In Moscow, the number of people over 65 has doubled over last 20 years
· Desired life expectancy of Russians is 87.6 years
· Ministry of Labor will include pregnancy in the list of reasons for receiving child benefits
· PFR explains how to start receiving a spouse's pension
· In Moscow, migrant shortage estimated at 200 thousand people
· Ministry of Construction organizes arrival of 10 thousand construction workers from Uzbekistan
· WHO suspends approval process for Sputnik V vaccine
· Alcohol consumption in Russia in 2020 stopped decreasing
· Only half of young men in the Russian Federation are normally physically developed by draft age
· Claim that 100% of Soviet girls were virgins was not confirmed
· Population of Uzbekistan has exceeded 35 million
· Male life expectancy drops sharply in Italy
· Women with higher education are more likely than others to give birth to their first child out of wedlock
· The quietest cities to live in are Reykjavik, Bern and Helsinki
· WHO announces plateau in incidence of COVID-19
· COVID vaccination reduces the risk of dying from infection by factor of 11
· Do COVID-19 boosters pose health risks?
· In USA, abortion debate escalates
· French women under 25 promised free contraception
· Air pollution from forest fires kills 33.5 thousand people a year
· Seven thousand steps a day will reduce the risk of dying from all causes
· La Croix and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on COVID-19 mortality statistics
· Novaya Gazeta on unwillingness to get vaccinated against coronavirus
· Dagens Nyheter on herd immunity against coronavirus
· Der Spiegel on demythologizing the effects of vaccination
· Izvestia on the problems of the Far East
· Kommersant on new concept of demographic development in Far East
· RBK and Meduza on new cities of Siberia
· Blueprint on Innopolis
· RBK on dollar millionaires in Russian regions
· The Times on requirement for migrants in Denmark to find jobs
· Novaya Gazeta on new wave of migrant-phobia in Russia
· Kommersant on procurement of HIV drugs
· Meduza on bacha posh and the situation of women in Afghanistan
· Videnskab on sanitation
· Tatars in population censuses
· Report on the results of a study of the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on migrants from Central Asia residing in the Russian Federation. 2021
· International migration in the era of the pandemic: broken ties, remittances and migrant-phobia
· Rural healthcare in Russia in 2020
· Eurostat Regional Yearbook. 2021 edition
· Through the pages of the journals Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Voprosy Ekonomiki (Economic Issues)
· Contents of the journal Demography
· 170th anniversary of the birth of Maxim Maksimovich Kovalevsky
· Master’s Degree in Demography: Student Initiation 2021