"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1023 – 1024
In the issue: Preliminary demographic results for 2023 in Russia (part II). The ideal age to get married. Modern women: between work and family. Most Russians believe that a woman can combine a successful career and motherhood. More families have separate budgets. A growing number of supporters of bill to abolish personal income tax for large families. Russians' attitude towards IVF. Child well-being index. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists. "Son preference" as a fertility factor in the countries of the Middle East and Central Asia: the experience of cohort comparison. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography "Demographic challenges of the 21st century".
- Preliminary demographic results for 2023 in Russia (part II)
- The number of deaths in Russia has decreased for the second year in a row, coming to about 1.8 million people in 2023, or 12 per 1,000 people
- The number of deaths decreased as a result of a decrease in mortality in all ages except for those aged 20-24 and 25-29 years
- According to preliminary data, life expectancy at birth has exceeded 73 years
- Differences in life expectancy at birth between Russian regions have decreased to 12 years
- Standardized mortality rates for men vary across Russian regions from 743 to 1,965 per 100,000 people, for women - from 487 to 1,022 per 100,000 people
- Infant mortality in Russia, according to preliminary data for January-December 2023, decreased to 4.2‰
- The ideal age to get married
- Modern women: between work and family
- Most Russians believe that a woman can combine a successful career and motherhood
- More families have separate budgets
- A growing number of supporters of bill to abolish personal income tax for large families
- Russians' attitude towards IVF
- Life expectancy in Russia is 73.46 years
- Putin announces need to reach life expectancy of 80+
- The number of Russians over 60 years old will increase by 2 million by 2030
- The number of lonely elderly people in the Russian Federation has approached 10 million
- Infant mortality in Russia is 4.1 ppm
- Putin intends to achieve sustainable fertility growth in the Russian Federation in the next 6 years
- Can sustainable population growth in Russia be ensured by raising children as future fathers and mothers?
- President links decline in birth rate in Russia to lifestyle and level of well-being
- Regions with low fertility will receive additional funding
- In Russia, 13.9 million families have received maternity capital certificate
- The number of Russians living below the poverty line fell to 13.5 million in 2023
- Putin announces new national projects
- Shortage of workers in Russia explained by import substitution and demographic pit
- Ministry of Economic Development estimates women's domestic work at 13% of GDP
- “Tourist card” for foreigners will be fully launched in Russia before the end of the year
- The number of new cases of HIV infection in Russia has decreased by 30% over past five years.
- Since 2012, 65 thousand health workers have participated in the “Zemsky Paramedic” and “Zemsky Doctor” programs
- A shortage of measles vaccine has been recorded in Russian regions
- Ukraine's population has dropped by seven million people since 2022
- South Korea sets new world record for low fertility
- Over the past 11 years, fertility in Ukraine has been decreasing annually by approximately 7%
- China intends to improve policy instruments to support fertility
- China plans to create 12 million new jobs in 2024
- Trump promises to immediately close the US border if re-elected
- Since 2022, over 1.4 million Ukrainian citizens have crossed the border of Moldova
- Mexico, US and Guatemala agree to work together to fight illegal migration
- According to Trump, the number of illegal migrants in the United States has reached 15 million
- Poland will demand preferences under the new migration pact
- EU registers seven-year record number of asylum applications
- Prime Minister of Saxony proposes to set upper limit for admission of refugees to 60 thousand per year
- French Parliament enshrines right to abortion in constitution
- The number of obese people in the world has exceeded 1 billion
- Uzbekistan adopts law banning corporal punishment of children
- TASS and Kommersant on new national projects
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on attracting migrants from foreign countries
- Esli byt’ tochnym on the effectiveness of the compatriot repatriation program
- Kommersant on simplifying compatriot repatriation procedure
- RBK on Russians who have moved to Argentina
- Kommersant on the problems of labor migrants
- Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on housing for migrant workers
- Kommersant and TASS on the most popular job openings
- Novye Izvestia on the number of pensioners
- Novye Izvestia on the difference in income between pensioners and working Russians
- Kommersant and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on replenishing human resources
- Kommersant on fight against outflow of personnel in medicine
- RBK on record length of working day
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on continuing education
- RBK on the seasonality of births
- Novye Izvestia on protecting the rights of single mothers
- Kommersant on proposal to include postpartum support program in compulsory medical insurance
- Kommersant on proposal to spend maternity capital on medical care for children
- Kommersant on healthy lifestyle trend
- Kommersant on the sale of an unregistered and dangerous contraceptive drug
- Novye Izvestia on an increase in the use of antidepressants
- Esli byt’ tochnym on the influence of a defendant's gender on the verdict in murder cases
- Novye Izvestia on a possible raising of retirement age in China
- Beating cancer inequalities in the EU
- Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2022 (morbidity and mortality)
- Tracking universal health coverage: 2023 global monitoring report
- Regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2023
- Factors of fertility growth in the Republic of Uzbekistan after 2017
- Through the pages of the journals Voprosy Onkologii (Oncology Issues) and Sotsiologiya Meditsiny (Sociology of Medicine)
- Contents of the journal Population and Development Review
- Child well-being index. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
- "Son preference" as a fertility factor in the countries of the Middle East and Central Asia: the experience of cohort comparison. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography "Demographic challenges of the 21st century"
- Renewal of our country's generations