Russia registered a positive migration balance in January-April 2019, surpassing indices posted in previous ten years. The number of foreign migrant workers in Russia went up slightly, while the share of legal migrant workers decreased

According to preliminary data released by Rosstat, in 2018 life expectancy for Russian population increased by 0.2 year and came to 72.84 years. One of the acute demographic problems in Russia is high differentiation of life expectancy by gender which is due to low life expectancy for males. In...

Growth in the share of the elderly people cannot but lead to a higher burden on the able-bodied population. In the meantime, families' expenditures per child are increasing. In such a situation, it is inevitable either to increase insurance contributions or the retirement age

In 2019, the rate of decline in the workforce soared: in Q1, it shrank by nearly 0.8m on the corresponding quarter of the previous year, while over the entire year 2018, that index had declined by only 0.1m. As a result, the number of individuals involved in economic activities (without taking...