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Regular version of the site

"Demoscope Weekly" ## 973 - 974

In the issue: International migration according to 2022 estimates. One in three Russians reports having had the flu this autumn-winter. Women complaining more often about harassment from colleagues. Russians name country’s top 5 cities for a comfortable life in retirement. Labor mobility within the EU. Online education: 53% of Russians want to develop in their profession.

 

Demographic barometer

·           International migration according to 2022 estimates

o    The United Nations Population Division estimates that the number of international migrants has risen to 281 million, or 3.6% of the world's population

o    People aged 25-64 make up 50 per cent of the world’s population and 66 per cent of international migrants

o    ILO estimates that there were 169 million international labor migrants in 2019

o    UNESCO estimates number of international student migrants is over 6 million people

o    World Bank estimates international remittances increased to $794 billion in 2022

o    Refugee numbers rise to 34 million

 

Q&A

·          One in three Russians reports having had the flu this autumn-winter

·          Women complaining more often about harassment from colleagues

·          Russians name country’s top 5 cities for a comfortable life in retirement

·          Labor mobility within the EU

·          Online education: 53% of Russians want to develop in their profession

 

In the vastness of Russia

·          Natural decline in the population of Russia for 11 months of 2022 is 543.4 thousand people

·          The largest number of marriages over the past 105 years was registered in Moscow in 2022

·          Marriage as a union of a man and a woman is enshrined in the foundations of state cultural policy

·          According to census, the number of homeless people in Russia has decreased sixfold over last 10 years

·          About half of the unemployed in Russia are women

·          Acceptance of applications for deferment from conscription for IT specialists has begun

·          Employers hiring more older people

·          One in five Russians wants to retire abroad

·          HRC suggests limiting the granting of citizenship to participants in the resettlement program

·          State Duma will consider bill on simplified acquisition of citizenship by scientists

·          About 13.5% of deaths aged 20-39 are alcohol-related

·          Mortality in traffic accidents in 2022 decreased by 6%

·          Most of those dying from coronavirus in Russia had not been revaccinated

·          Ministry of Health head tells of impact of COVID on the reproductive health of Russians

·          More than a third of Russians have had the flu or SARS

·          Influenza B has replaced swine flu

·          Russians take antibiotics wrong

·          Purchases of drugs for state clinics decreased by 8% in 2022

·           Corvalol, iodine and aspirin have been added to the list of potentially scarce drugs

·          Spending on health last year increased for 72% of Russians

 

World News

·          Abolition of "one family - one child" policy has not helped raise birth rate in China

·          In Japan, only 16.5% of young people plan to get married

·          More than 1 million protesters in France against pension reform

·          Embassy of Sweden will resume issuing visas to Russian citizens

·          Mexican authorities letting fewer foreigners into country

·          Number of illegal EU border crossings highest since 2016

·          More than 300,000 citizens have returned to Venezuela since 2020

·          Kyrgyzstan bans foreigners from taking out more than $5,000 in cash

·          China records 60,000 COVID-19-related deaths in a month

·          Japan again records sharp increase in deaths from coronavirus

·          WHO asks China to provide details on coronavirus pandemic

·          Japan plans to downgrade COVID-19 status to seasonal flu

·          Cholera affects up to four million people worldwide every year

 

The newspapers write about…

·           Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Advance, Kommersant and RBK on China’s population decline and India’s rise

·           Nezavisimaya Gazeta on stimulating the birth rate in China and Russia

·           Novye Izvestia on Russia’s ethnic composition according to census results

·          Kommersant on traditional family values

·           Nezavisimaya Gazeta on possible sanctions against Russians leaving the country

·          Kommersant on innovations in the rules for the stay of foreigners in Kazakhstan

·          RBK on the growth of money transfers abroad

·           Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the lifting of covid restrictions in China

·          Kommersant on the effectiveness of calls to "take care of yourself" during the COVID-19 pandemic

·           Izvestia on the salary of doctors

·           Novye Izvestia on the shortage of medicines and medical personnel

·          Kommersant on telemedicine

·          Kommersant on religiosity and bad habits

·          Kommersant on grandparents

 

Read books and magazines

·          The demographic well-being of Russian regions

·          A comprehensive assessment of current economic development strategies, labor migration and remittances in the Republic of Belarus

·          STEPS: prevalence of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2019

·          Regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2022

·          The demographic handbook of Armenia, 2021

·          Through the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Ekologiya Cheloveka (Human Ecology)

·          Contents of the magazine Genus

 

Profession: researcher

·          70 years since the birth of Sergei Sergeevich Artobolevsky

·          Border territories of the Russian Federation: what can the state do and what does it want?

·          Interview of Sergei Artobolevsky by International Life magazine