On 24 April 2009 the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Russian Federation presented the 2008 National Human Development Report Russia Facing Demographic Challenges. This is the twelfth of the kind in a series launched by UNDP in cooperation with the Government of the Russian Federation and prepared by prominent national experts since 1995.
The Report analyses the main aspects of the major demographic challenges and offers recommendations for social and economic reforms, which could help reduce mortality rates, improve the present birth rate, regulate and manage migration flows, and at the same time, alleviate adverse consequences of demographic trends, which cannot be adjusted in the nearest future.
The Report presents Human Development Index (HDI) for Russia and its regions. It also contains the first-ever calculated Gender-related Development Index (GDI), which takes into account the impact from differences between men and women in basic HDI indicators: life expectancy, literacy rate and access to education, as well as access to income.
Link to the full text of the Report