THE REGIONAL TRENDS IN NATALITY AND MORBIDITY OF POPULATION: CHARACTERISTICS OF PRE- AND POST-COVID PERIODS

The issue of national demographic well-being of population is the most actual task in the national state programs of social economic development and security. The tools implementing these tasks at state level are the current Concept of Demographic Policy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025, the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On the National Development Goals of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030 and in perspective up to 2036" and also a number of other normative legal acts. The study of regional characteristics permits to identify specifics of demographic problems and to develop targeted measures considering local conditions and needs of population. The presented results can be used as basis for assessing demographic trends at level of the Regions of Russian Federation and can be considered as development of theoretical propositions in the field of demographic process management at Federal and Regional levels. Besides, the results of analysis and modeling make it possible to assume that demographic processes in the Regions are determined not only by the level of morbidity of population, but by a number of other factors of social, economic and institutional nature that can be assumed as basis for subsequent studies of this issue.