At the end of last year, life expectancy in the Russian Federation rose to 72.76 years (70.1 years in 2021). It has been reported red blood cell With reference to Rosstat data.
As highlighted, the annual increase in life expectancy of Russians amounted to 2.66 years. This figure was the highest since the early 1990s.
The media added that the statistics are derived from Rosstat’s preliminary data on life expectancy at birth.
The trend in life expectancy has picked up after a two-year decline during the pandemic – life expectancy decreased by 1.8 years in 2020 and another 1.4 years in 2021.
In the modern history of Russia, the indicator in question has never grown more than 1.3 years a year ago.
Former Ministry of Health judicial Inaccurate data that 81% of men die from sudden death in Russia. The ministry noted that sudden deaths in the Russian Federation account for less than 1 percent of the dead.