"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1043 – 1044
In the issue: Demographic results of the first half of 2024 in Russia (part I). According to results of the first half of 2024, population decline in Russia increased by 1.8 times compared to the same period in 2023. Natural decline increased in January-June 2024, amounting to -4.4‰ in annual terms; migration growth decreased to 0.9‰. According to estimates at the beginning of 2024, the number of elderly people aged 65 and older almost equaled the number of children under 15, amounting to 17.1% and 17.2% of the population of Russia, respectively. The number of births continues to decline: 590,500 people were born in January-June 2024, 2.7% less than in the same period of 2023. Total fertility rate remains at 1.4 children per woman. The number of marriages registered in January-June 2024 decreased by 3.1%, divorces - by 4.8%. Family and work. Large families. Smoke without fire, or the culture of smoking in Russia. Where is it better to live: in the city or in the village? More than half of doctors support banning migrants from working in medicine. 110 years since the birth of Ilya Grigorievich Venetsky. Initiation into demographers - 2024.
- Demographic results of the first half of 2024 in Russia (part I)
- According to results of the first half of 2024, population decline in Russia increased by 1.8 times compared to the same period in 2023
- Natural decline increased in January-June 2024, amounting to -4.4‰ in annual terms; migration growth decreased to 0.9‰
- According to estimates at the beginning of 2024, the number of elderly people aged 65 and older almost equaled the number of children under 15, amounting to 17.1% and 17.2% of the population of Russia, respectively
- The number of births continues to decline: 590,500 people were born in January-June 2024, 2.7% less than in the same period of 2023
- Total fertility rate remains at 1.4 children per woman
- The number of marriages registered in January-June 2024 decreased by 3.1%, divorces - by 4.8%
- Family and work
- Large families
- Smoke without fire, or the culture of smoking in Russia
- Where is it better to live: in the city or in the village?
- More than half of doctors support banning migrants from working in medicine
- The number of Russians over working age will grow by almost 2 million by 2030
- Moscow will soon cross the 80-year mark in average life expectancy
- Fertility in Russia hits record low
- 72% of women and 70% of men would like to have two or more children
- Proposal to start "Demographic special operation" in Far East
- Ministry of Labor will focus on making families more popular
- Ministry of Justice intends to introduce mandatory conciliation procedure in divorce
- More than 10 new cities are being built in Russia
- A region’s distance from the capitals contributes to a growing proportion of young people willing to leave for work
- Will retraining reduce the personnel shortage?
- Yandex Taxi warns of price increases due to driver shortage
- Airports to prepare for fingerprinting of foreigners
- In 2023, Russia had 630,000 illegal migrants
- Registry of migrants required to leave Russia will appear
- Russia introduces new rules for deportation of foreign minors
- The number of smokers in Russia decreased from 41% to 30% from 2009 to 2023
- One-year mortality rate of cancer patients down by 18%
- Ministry of Health reports 30% decrease in heart attack mortality
- About 13 million people in the Russian Federation work in hazardous conditions
- A record low number of children were born in Japan in the first half of the year
- One in ten kindergartens in Sweden may close due to low birth rate
- Will Filipino nannies help raise fertility in South Korea?
- Kyrgyzstan changes rules for Russians staying in the country
- Berlin is called to radically change its migration policy
- German President calls for making migration restrictions a priority in coming years
- Germany introduces controls at all land borders
- New French Prime Minister intends to restore Ministry of Immigration
- Spanish Foreign Minister calls for preventing the Atlantic from becoming a migrant cemetery
- UN accuses Western politicians of inciting hatred towards migrants
- Germany deports migrants to Afghanistan for first time since 2021
- At least 1,500 migrants from Tajikistan have entered the United States through the southern border over 4 years
- Tajik citizens are advised not to travel to Russia
- The number of Tajiks willing to work in the Russian Federation has decreased
- More than 20 thousand people dead in Sudan
- Finland is predicted to have highest alcohol consumption in Northern Europe
- More than 460,000 children vaccinated against polio in Gaza
- USA to use smallpox vaccine to protect against monkeypox
- Two US states have recommended staying home in the evenings due to the VEE virus
- Sweden has recommended for the first time limiting children’s time with gadgets
- Kommersant on the dynamics of migration growth
- Kommersant on improving migration policy
- Kommersant on a register of persons under surveillance
- Novye Izvestia on crimes among migrants
- TASS on adaptation courses for migrants
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on instant hiring of workers
- Kommersant on the interaction of career centers in educational institutions and state employment services
- RBK on pension points for working pensioners
- RBK on raising the retirement age in China
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the demand for job seekers of retirement age
- Kommersant on the growth of employment among people with disabilities
- Forbes on the shortage of taxi personnel
- Kommersant on the growth of employment among people with disabilities
- RBK on a register of companies caught in illegal hiring
- Esli byt’ tochnym and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the growth of real wages and the reduction of poverty
- Forbes and RBK on postponing childbearing
- RBK on fertility testing
- Kommersant on the distribution of budget funds in healthcare
- IA Regnum on abortions in the North Caucasus
- Kommersant on lung cancer statistics
- Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on a vaccine against lung cancer
- Novye Izvestia on the new wave of coronavirus
- Novye Izvestia on quitting vaping
- Novye Izvestia on repressive medicine
- Society at a glance 2024
- Recruiting immigrant workers Japan 2024
- Demography: an introduction to population studies
- State report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in St. Petersburg in 2023"
- The situation of youth in the CIS countries (analytical review), 2024
- Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskiye Issledovaniya (Sociological research) and Noveishaya Istoriya Rossii (Modern history of Russia)
- Contents of the Journal of Marriage and Family
- 110 years since the birth of Ilya Grigorievich Venetsky
- Initiation into demographers - 2024