"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1045 – 1046
In the issue: Demographic results of the first half of 2024 in Russia (part II). In the first half of 2024, the number of deaths increased compared to the same period in 2023, exceeding 921,000 people, or 12.7 per 1,000 people. Life expectancy at birth increased in 2023 to 73.4 years, exceeding the pre-pandemic level of 2019. In 2023, mortality from external causes, diseases of the digestive system, neoplasms, and some infectious and parasitic diseases increased. According to data for the first half of 2024, infant mortality was 4.0‰ in annual terms. Maternal mortality in 2023 increased again, amounting to 13.3 per 100 thousand live births. Russians' views on parenting. Online dating, or Romance in the digital age. Less than 1% of Russians surveyed consider a housewife to be the ideal role for a girl. Women in politics: VTsIOM monitoring. Career growth leads women to divorce 1.5 times more often than men. Mandatory consultation with a psychologist before divorce: 42% of divorced people approve, 45% are against. 95th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Samoilovich Akhiezer. Congratulations to Ekaterina Sharepina on the birth of her son. Expedition of the HSE Department of Social Sciences "Population migration in settlements between two or more large centers: what determines its scale and direction?" Collective diary of participants.
- Demographic results of the first half of 2024 in Russia (part II)
- In the first half of 2024, the number of deaths increased compared to the same period in 2023, exceeding 921,000 people, or 12.7 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth increased in 2023 to 73.4 years, exceeding the pre-pandemic level of 2019
- In 2023, mortality from external causes, diseases of the digestive system, neoplasms, and some infectious and parasitic diseases increased
- According to data for the first half of 2024, infant mortality was 4.0‰ in annual terms
- Maternal mortality in 2023 increased again, amounting to 13.3 per 100 thousand live births
- Russians' views on parenting
- Online dating, or Romance in the digital age
- Less than 1% of Russians surveyed consider a housewife to be the ideal role for a girl
- Women in politics: VTsIOM monitoring
- Career growth leads women to divorce 1.5 times more often than men
- Mandatory consultation with a psychologist before divorce: 42% of divorced people approve, 45% are against
- In Russia, the population decline trend continues
- Ministry of Labor expects the number of women of reproductive age to decrease by 2046
- Data on 2.4 million families has been added to the register of large families
- Does the Kremlin still have no position on the issue of banning the childfree movement in the Russian Federation?
- 1.9 million unemployed in Russia
- List of professions prohibited for women has been cut by almost a third
- As of September 1, there were 6.2 million foreigners registered with the migration service in Russia
- In 2024, 43,000 work patents of migrants were cancelled in Russia
- Moscow Region will limit the work of migrants in 2025
- Authorities intend to reduce the number of fictitious marriages between migrants and Russian citizens
- Ministry of Education and Science supports introduction of oral part in Russian language exam for migrants
- Ministry of Education decides to test children of migrants on knowledge of the Russian language
- Russian Federation has almost 370,000 educational migrants
- More than 70% of foreigners study at Russian universities on a fee-paying basis
- Russia no longer one of world’s heaviest-drinking countries
- About 40 million Russians are obese
- Muscovites are offered free fertility testing for a year
- More than half of elderly Russians report anxiety and depression
- Australia's population reaches 27.1 million for first time
- The number of people over 100 in Japan reaches 95,000
- China to raise retirement age
- Germany to start checking social networks of Schengen visa applicants
- Hungary intends to join Netherlands' request to withdraw from EU migration pact
- More than 80% of Germans surveyed support immigration restrictions
- Scholz supports introduction of controls at all German borders
- 77% of French respondents support restoration of border controls
- British government to allocate $100 million to strengthen border security
- New French Interior Minister promises to combat illegal migration
- Danish Prime Minister calls migrant problem second most important after Ukraine
- Finland to tighten residence permit requirements for family reunification
- Netherlands to declare asylum crisis
- Germany and Uzbekistan sign migration agreement
- Uzbekistan begins recruiting migrants for construction and manufacturing in Russia
- Ethiopian refugees return home due to war in Sudan
- Trump calls for death penalty for drug dealers in US
- New monkeypox strain reaches Sweden, Thailand and other countries outside Africa
- About 40% of Americans are obese
- Almost 50,000 cases of cholera registered worldwide in August
- Spain records its largest outbreak of dengue fever
- WHO recognizes Jordan as first leprosy-free country in world
- UK National Health Service in critical condition
- News.ru, E1.ru, Novye Izvestia, RBK and Fontanka.ru on banning "childfree ideology"
- RBK and Kommersant on the reproductive plans of Russians
- Esli byt’ tochnym on low fertility
- Kommersant on hormonal analysis for fertility
- RBK on the possibility of increasing the amount of child care benefits up to one and a half years
- Novye Izvestia on curtailing family mortgages
- RBK on the 2030 population census
- Kommersant on migration in Russia through the eyes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
- RBK on restrictions for illegal migrants
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta on assistance to foreign citizens in moving to Russia
- Kommersant and Izvestia on regulating the number of migrant children in school classes
- Esli byt’ tochnym on crime in Russia
- RBK on the difficulties of Russian emigrants
- Kommersant on the shortage of personnel
- Kommersant on new strains of coronavirus
- Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the resistance of microbes to antibiotics
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta on refusing prophylactic vaccinations
- Novye Izvestia on the aging of the human body
- Novye Izvestia on the problem of early puberty in girls
- Kommersant on the transfer of anonymized personal data for training models based on artificial intelligence
- Novye Izvestia on identifying a predisposition to diabetes in children
- Novye Izvestia on the problem of loneliness
- TASS on Semashko's healthcare system
- Kommersant on the advantages and disadvantages of remote work
- Kommersant on shrinking cities in the Russian Arctic
- The demography of transforming families
- Materials for the state report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Russian Federation in 2022" for the Republic of Bashkortostan
- Health behaviour in school-aged children international report from the 2021/2022 survey
- Safeguarding the population of Russia: health, employment, standard of living and quality of life
- Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of January 1, 2024
- Through the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Sibirskiy onkologicheskiy zhurnal (Siberian Oncology Journal)
- Contents of the journal Population & Societe
- 95th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Samoilovich Akhiezer
- Congratulations to Ekaterina Sharepina on the birth of her son
- Expedition of the HSE Department of Social Sciences "Population migration in settlements between two or more large centers: what determines its scale and direction?" Collective diary of participants