Link: https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/mortality-angle-of-the-russianukrainian?utm_source=url
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These are awful trends. There’s nothing to caveat. Yes, Ukraine’s life expectancy is a little bit higher, but these numbers are awful, and yes, there was a cratering of male life expectancy after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I will note that there was a general slide from the early 1960s until the early 1980s… a run-up for some reason (falsifying data?), and then absolute cratering. That’s just hideous.
Dropping about 5 years over a 5-year period is a horrible decrease.
There has been a recovery since 2004, but that life expectancy is still very low compared to other European countries, even other Eastern European countries, as we’ll see below.
Author(s): Mary Pat Campbell
Publication Date: 27 Feb 2022
Publication Site: STUMP at substack