Paul Goble
Staunton,
September 10 – On average, women in Russia live 11 years longer than men do,
according to a study conducted by Russian and Western scholars that has been
published in Britain’s authoritative medical journal, The Lancet (thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31485-5/fulltext).
The study focused on trends between
1980 and 2016 and noted that the difference between the sexes has varied widely
with the smallest difference occurring in 1994 when the combined life
expectancy in the Russian Federation was 63.7 years (rbc.ru/society/10/09/2018/5b960b339a7947f63a2a2914?from=main).
Life
expectancy from birth among men rose to 65.4 years in 2016, The Lancet study reports; among women, it
rose to 76.2. That difference, just under 11 years is the largest in the world.
While infant mortality fell by 57.5 percent between 2000 and 2016, it
continued, morality among working age people remained high, often as a result
of “unfavorable behavioral factors.”
Among
these, The Lancet study says, are “consumption
of alcohol and drugs.” But it also pointed to the fact that “in comparison with
countries with similar levels of socio-demographic measures, the indicators of
mortality and invalid status in Russia remain high and the expected life
expectancy low.”
Two
months ago, RBC reports, Olga Tkacheva, the chief geriatrics specialist at the
Russian health ministry, says that the gender differences in life expectancy
will remain in place through at least 2030 even though the figures for each sex
will increase.
“Expected
life expectancy at birth for men and women in 2018 is 73.5 years. It is
projected,” she says, that “by 2030, it will grow to 80.1 years.” Men at that
point will have a life expectancy of 75.8, while women will have one of 83.7. She also said that Russians are already aging
more slowly.
According
to Tkacheva, Russians of both sexes in 2013 had at age 58 the cognitive
functions of 50-year-olds in 2003
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