Human potential of sustainable development of the Eurasian Economic Union countries: change dynamics and demographic security[Человеческий Потенциал Устойчивого Развития Стран Евразийского Экономического Союза: Динамика Изменения И Демографическая Безопасность]

The challenging inconsistency of today is contradictions between the developing each member country’s human potential individually and the Eurasian Economic Union as a whole, strengthening the positive impact of integration processes, the real demographic situation of member countries, the contradictory influence of integration processes related to the emergence of multiple socio-demographic issues and primarily, with demographic expansion. The EEU integration goals require increased human potential, owing to the fertility, mortality and migration in the member states, ensuring demographic security. The population of the union is its real strategic resource. The research analyzes various aspects of human potential and human capital. Based on the analysis of the demographic situation in the EEU member states, the authors aim at revealing the risks and threats of its reduced human potential and rationalizing the system of indicators and indices of the EEU demographic security. Demographic security penetrates every single field of human life. Understanding the demographic development significance for the national security of the EEU member countries in general, the authors state the need to specify the content of the “demographic security” category and develop indicators and to monitor its condition. The article advises that the EEU demographic security is a state of secure socio-economic development with the ensured geopolitical, economic and ethnic status of each member state and the union, their integrity, independence, sovereignty while maintaining the existing geopolitical status. The human potential dynamics of the EEU sustainable development is assessed through modern approaches to researching the problems of the demographic potential of societies. The research considered the possibilities of the countries, opening up with the single integration association functioning.