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Regular version of the site

"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1021 – 1022

In the issue: Preliminary demographic results for 2023 in Russia (part I). Main changes in legislation in the field of international migration and acquisition of citizenship of the Russian Federation, 2023-2024: new legal norms, draft laws and discussion. Review of recent changes in migration legislation in a number of foreign countries. The formula of love - 2024. After the birth of a child, one in four women begin paying less attention to their career, one in five – paying more. The ideal age to have your first child. Surrogacy: pros and cons. Support for abortion rights is widespread, especially in Europe. Russians update ranking of cities to retire in. Modern demographic trends in Kazakhstan. Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Demographic Barometer

  • Preliminary demographic results for 2023 in Russia (part I)
    • The population of Russia at the beginning of 2024 was 146.2 million people, having decreased by 0.2% in 2023
    • Natural decline came to 495 thousand people, with a 51% compensation from migration increase
    • According to preliminary data, in 2023 the population decreased in 62 out of 85 regions of the federation
    • The number of births continues to decline, dropping to 1,265,000 people, or by 8.7‰ for January-December 2023
    • The total fertility rate according to data for January-December 2023 varied in the regions of Russia from 6‰ to 20‰

Current reviews and commentary

  • Main changes in legislation in the field of international migration and acquisition of citizenship of the Russian Federation, 2023-2024: new legal norms, draft laws and discussion
  • Review of recent changes in migration legislation in a number of foreign countries

Q&A

  • The formula of love - 2024
  • After the birth of a child, one in four women begin paying less attention to their career, one in five – paying more
  • The ideal age to have your first child
  • Surrogacy: pros and cons
  • Support for abortion rights is widespread, especially in Europe
  • Russians update ranking of cities to retire in

In the vastness of Russia

  • The population of Russia in 2023 decreased by 244 thousand people
  • By 2046, Moscow and the region will experience its greatest natural population decline
  • Putin considers it necessary for families to be “born earlier” in Russia
  • Russians name ideal age to start a family
  • Since 2020, 1.9 million families have received maternity capital at the birth of their first child
  • Unemployment in the Russian Federation in December 2023 was 3%
  • In 2023, the main problem for most employers was finding employees
  • Plan to resettle Russians from megacities is doomed to failure
  • Among cities with a population of over a million, it is most profitable to move to a private house in Omsk, Kazan and Krasnoyarsk
  • Net migration in Russia has decreased by 90 thousand people
  • Bill on conscription of 50-year-old migrants is withdrawn from State Duma
  • Murashko reports breakthrough in cancer treatment in Russia
  • In 2024 IVF procedure will become more accessible
  • Rejection of new WHO classification of diseases explained by traditional values

World News

  • The population of Poland decreased by 137 thousand people in 2023
  • Fertility in Ukraine has been falling for 10 years
  • Ukraine needs “powerful immigration”
  • Each additional year of education reduces the risk of early death by 2%
  • India has become world's fastest growing economy
  • US economy growing faster than in European countries
  • The number of jobs in the United States in January grew significantly more than expected
  • Only a fifth of Ukrainian refugees in Germany work
  • Finland will extend border crossing restrictions with Russia for another two months
  • Texas building barriers on border with Mexico due to influx of migrants
  • Trump announces plans to close US border if re-elected
  • Vilnius schools will no longer teach Russian as a second language
  • Mongolia ranks first in the world in cancer mortality
  • WHO predicts increase in cancer incidence in the world

The newspapers write about…

  • Novye Izvestia and Kommersant FM on internal migration
  • Lenta.ru, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Kommersant on the problem of youth migration from small towns
  • Kommersant on the results of the resettlement program for compatriots
  • Novye Izvestia on the creation of migrant autonomies
  • RBK on migration outflow from new regions
  • TASS and Novye Izvestia on the history of restrictions on the retail sale of alcohol
  • Vedomosti on import substitution in medicine
  • Kommersant on the development of geriatric care
  • Kommersant on problems with the purchase of drugs for the treatment of HIV
  • Novye Izvestia on a cancer vaccine
  • Izvestia on the need to increase age limit in program to ensure availability of expensive drugs
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on mortality from fires
  • Vedomosti on the shortage of personnel in medicine
  • Novye Izvestia on the shortage of nannies
  • Kommersant on the growing demand for child psychologists and specialists in the fight against alcohol addiction
  • Kommersant on employers filling vacancies with their own employees
  • Izvestia on obstetrics and motherhood
  • Izvestia on proposal to toughen penalties for absence of child restraints in car
  • Novye Izvestia on the reduction in the number of schools
  • Novye Izvestia on the decrease in the number of pensioners
  • Novye Izvestia on a decline in the well-being of Russians in the last decade
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on families' food costs
  • Lenta.ru on ageism

Read books and magazines

  • Labor and employment in Russia. 2023
  • Families in Austria. Partnerships, fertility intentions and economic situation in challenging times
  • Russian society and state in the context of the emergence of a new world order: the demographic situation in 2022
  • The Kazakhstan city: a socio-demographic view
  • Can people afford to pay for health care?
  • Through the pages of the magazines DEMIS and ORGZDRAV: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie. Vestnik VShOUZ (ORGZDRAV: news, opinions, training. Bulletin of the Higher School of Public Health)
  • Contents of the journal Population Studies

Profession: researcher

  • Modern demographic trends in Kazakhstan. Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

New in the reading room

  • Questions of sanitary and medical statistics