November 10, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

According to the prognosis of specialists by 2019 the number of the population in Ugra will be 1560,4 ths. people.

While the preserving the permanent regime of the population reproduction and absence of the migration increase the population will increase by 91,4 ths. people in comparison with the beginning of 2005. Now in the Okrug there are 1478,2 ths. people. Experts say that the demographic situation in the Autonomous Okrug at the beginning of 2006 is positive in general.

Altogether due to the growing total number of the population, the number of employable age will decrease starting from 2008. At present the program of the Pre-Polar Ural development is being made which will promote to solving this problem via involving the economically active population from other regions of the country.

According to the prognosis of Rosstat the expected life expectancy in the Autonomous Okrug will also grow. By 2015 the life expectancy among women will be 75,7 years, among men - 64,4 years.

The natural increase of the population in 2005 was fixed only in 16 constituent entities of the RF including the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug. The natural increase of the population of Ugra last year was 9605 people. The rate of the childbirth exceeds the mortality rate almost in all the municipalities of the Okrug. The indicators of the population’s natural increase is expected to remain positive. Under contemporary conditions the main source of the population’s formation in the region is not the migration but natural reproduction.

Comparatively young age of the Okrug people - 32,4 years - provokes high indicators of marriages. The number of marriages, registered from January to April of 2006, made 4092 what is by 1,2 % more than for the same period of the previous year. The number of divorces was 3058 and decreased by 0,9 %. People more often marry in the age of 18-24 years (16,2 %) and 25-34 years (20,5 %) what testify the favorable conditions for the demographic development of the Autonomous Okrug. The coefficient of families is 3 people. Specialists explain that in the Okrug the “super-young” age structure of the population had been formed in the Okrug for a very long time which was possessed of labor and reproductive potential.

The reproductive indicators of Ugra are much better than in Russia and in most regions. The total coefficient of childbirth in the country was 1,34 per mille, and in the Autonomous Okrug - 1,53 per mille. In 2005 the total coefficient of childbirth in Ugra (13,8 per mille) by over twice exceeded the coefficient of mortality rate (7,1 per mille). The coefficient of mortality rate in Russia was 16,3 per mille.

The quota of children 0-17 years is 26,5% of the total number of the population, the quota of people older than the employable age - 8 %. The rest of the population are citizens of the employable age. So, the structure of the Okrug population is characterized with prevailing the quota of people younger that the employable age what can be considered as the process of the forming the stable permanent population with many-generations structure.

In Ugra as on the federal level the directions of the demographic policy, aimed at increasing the level of the childbirth and family strengthening, decreasing the mortality rate, increase of the population’s life expectancy, forming the permanent population of the Autonomous Okrug have been realized for many years. So, in 1999 the rate of babies’ mortality in Ugra was 12,1 per mille for 1000 babies. By the beginning of 2006 this indicator was decreased by almost 3 per mille.

In the Autonomous Okrug the concept of demographic policy until 2015 is being realized. At present the Government of Ugra does work on making amendments to the existing concept, the development of the program of the demographic development in the Autonomous Okrug for the long-term prospect (2008-2015) is being planned by the Government of Ugra. The main goal of the program will become the increased childbirth rate and decreased mortality rate as a result of the integrated demographic policy.

November 10, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The first meeting of the working group of members of the Public Chamber of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug was held in Ugra.

The members of the Chamber from Khanty-Mansiysk and Khanty-Mansiysk District participated in the meeting. On proposals of the Okrug Chamber Chair Vladimir Denisov, the forms of the interaction with the public authorities, public organizations, citizens’ appeals were discussed. Vladimir Denisov said that the Chamber does not implement the control functions, it can give recommendations, assessment of the public authorities activity, participate in the discussions of socially-important projects and hold their expertise.

At the meeting it was proposed to unite the members of the Okrug Public Chamber from municipalities. At the first plenary meeting on October 27 it was made a decision to form five commissions to work under different directions. The commissions consist of members of the Chamber living in different towns and districts of Ugra. For quick and fruitful work it is necessary to unite them in their municipalities. This idea was supported by the members of the Public Chamber of Khanty-Mansiysk and Khanty-Mansiysk District. Such unities will be discussed in other municipalities while the coming trips of the Chamber Chair. On November 14 the working group will hold the meeting in Surgut and on November 15 - in Nizhnevartovsk.