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We found what President Putin said in December about life expectancy in Russia to be partially true. There is no change in that assessment now, however, a new demographic report shows a change remarkable enough to revisit the issue of life and death in Russia.The Russian Federation government shows in January 2018, the gap between death and birth is growing. In short, many more people are dying than are being born. More on that later but first the information on life expectancy, which remains current.In 2016, the Russian Federal State Statistics Service reported life expectancy in Russia to be an average of 71.87 years. This number roughly equals French and British statistics of the 1960s.Life expectancy numbers have shifted dramatically in recent decades. In Soviet times, the highest level reached was in 1987 when life expectancy in the USSR went above 70 years. In the early 1990s, after the break up of the Soviet Union, it dropped sharply and the worst index was registered in 1994 (63.98 years). By 2012, it swung back up, surpassing the record of the the late 1980s.EmbedshareRussian demographicsEmbedshareThe code has been copied to your clipboard.widthpxheightpxShare on Facebook Share on Twitter The URL has been copied to your clipboardNo media source currently available0:000:01:010:00Early this year, the director of the of Institute Demographics of the Higher School of Economics, Anatoly Vishnevsky, said, Our life expectancy is rising after it plummeted to the bottom. In the last 20 years we have been
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