The issues of assessing medical and demographic processes and improving public health are very actual in Russia. The article analyzes the current state and regional characteristics of medical and demographic development using the example of the Republic of Dagestan. The positive tendency of the main fertility indicators was determined, including the analysis of the age structure of the population and population size alterations.
Keywords: Republic of Dagestan; age structure; medical-demographic process; population birth rate; population mortality; the North Caucasus Federal Region; total fertility rate.