"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1017 – 1018
In the issue: The world's least developed countries: demographic past, present and future (part 1). Family as a value. 56% of Russians believe that a family is a family only with a child. On gender inequality and maternity leave for men. Fewer gender stereotypes in the labor market. Russians name country’s best regions. 125 years since the birth of Arkady Mikhailovich Merkov. 90 years since the birth of Valentina Sergeevna Steshenko
- The world's least developed countries: demographic past, present and future (part 1)
- By 2023, the population of the least developed countries will exceed 14% of the world's population, and by mid-century, according to the average version of the UN forecast, it will increase to 20%.
- Total fertility in the least developed countries of the world has dropped to 4 children per woman, ranging from 2 or less to 6 children or more
- Life expectancy at birth has risen in the world's least developed countries to 65 years, ranging from 53 to 72 years
- Family as a value
- 56% of Russians believe that a family is a family only with a child
- On gender inequality and maternity leave for men
- Fewer gender stereotypes in the labor market
- Russians name country’s best regions
- Natural population decrease in the Russian Federation from January to November was 438,000 people
- The number of large families over the past 5 years has increased by 27%
- Budget expenditures on national projects in 2023 were completed by 99.2%
- Gap between rich and poor has narrowed
- Maternity capital for first child will be indexed to 630,400 rubles
- Matkapital in 2023 was most often used to improve living conditions
- Going on maternity leave in the first trimester of pregnancy is unlikely to affect fertility
- State Duma deputy proposes punishment for divorce
- Matvienko proposes renaming Ministry of Labor
- State Duma does not support prohibiting mobilization of fathers with three children
- The number of informally employed Russians has grown to 14.2 million people
- Shortage of personnel in agriculture will be 30–50 thousand people by 2030
- Court bans “only for Slavs” job ads
- Citizenship by birth will not yet be revoked
- Consular registration for Russians abroad is proposed to be made mandatory
- Foreign graduates of Russian universities will be eligible for simplified residence permit
- Ministry of Health is against expansion of alcohol trade
- Alcohol production has decreased in Russia
- The number of road accidents involving children has increased in Russia
- Some employers refuse to employ obese people
- Russia hosts its first wedding using biometrics
- China's population will fall by 2.08 million in 2023
- 58% of children aged 0 to 6 years in Switzerland have a “migration” background
- Poverty rate in Ukraine returns to 2002 level
- Ukraine will reduce the number of universities, but improve their quality
- 2023 could be the year of minimum global unemployment
- Moldova announces influx of Russians seeking citizenship
- About 10 million Ukrainians forced to leave homes due to fighting
- Almost 4.3 million Ukrainian refugees in EU countries
- Orban says Hungary will not accept migrants
- British House of Commons passes bill to expel illegal immigrants to Rwanda
- New York authorities impose curfew on asylum seekers
- Kenya ready to send 10,000 labor migrants to Russia
- Climate change could reduce life expectancy of world's population
- Global cancer incidence getting younger
- American scientists testing new method of treating neuroblastoma in children
- Latvia passes same-sex marriage law
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Forbes on measures to increase fertility
- News.ru and Izvestia on large families
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Novye Izvestia and RBK on Russia’s population decline
- Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the concept of migration policy until 2025
- Novye Izvestia and RBK on shortage of street cleaners
- Kommersant on intention to expand the list of acts leading to termination of acquired citizenship
- News.ru on crime among migrants
- Novye Izvestia on restricting access to the labor market for migrants
- Kommersant on the need to respect migrants’ labor rights
- Novye Izvestia on the shortage of personnel and the demand for young people
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the aging workforce
- Kommersant on an increase in the number of female sterilizations
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on Russians’ state of health
- News.ru on available compulsory medical insurance services
- Kommersant on the growing number of people with alcohol addiction
- Izvestia on proposal to allow the sale of alcohol in markets
- News.ru on major chronic diseases
- Izvestia on the risk of new pandemics
- Kommersant on the increase in the incidence of whooping cough
- Kommersant on the impact of COVID on the aging of brain cells
- TASS on reducing inequality
- Vedomosti on reducing the prevalence of tobacco smoking
- Izvestia on child mortality in road accidents and its prevention
- RBK on the economic damage from premature mortality
- IQ on the tradition of preferring sons in Caucasian countries
- Forbes on divorce among the elderly
- Novye Izvestia on housing security
- Vedomosti, Novye Izvestia, Izvestia on the demographic situation and challenges of China
- Al Jazeera on Italy's demographic crisis
- Healthcare in Russia. 2023
- WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2030
- Mortality trends by causes of death in the Republic of Moldova, 1965-2020
- Women and men of Kazakhstan 2018-2022
- Pensions at a glance 2023
- Through the pages of the magazines Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Povolzhsky Onkologicheskiy Vestnik (Povolzhsky Oncology Bulletin)
- Contents of the magazine Demography
- 125 years since the birth of Arkady Mikhailovich Merkov
- 90 years since the birth of Valentina Sergeevna Steshenko