Ukraine loses more than 700 thousand Ukrainians each year
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Ukraine every year loses more than 700 thousand Ukrainians, and 1/3 of them are people of working age.
This was in an interview with the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health Tatyana Bakhteyeva during the III International Conference on the topic "Who will help the medicine to recover: the search for a prescription", which is taking place in Kiev today.
The death rate of the population in Ukraine is 15.2, and in the member countries of the European Union it is 6.7 per 1000 population.
Ukrainians live 10 years less than residents of the EU and many CIS countries. Our country ranks 150th among the 223 countries of the world in terms of average life expectancy. The average life expectancy in Ukraine is 69 years, in the countries of the European Union - 74 years, and in the CIS countries: in Georgia - 76.7, in Moldova - 70.8, in Belarus - 70.63, in Uzbekistan - 71.9 and etc. The average life expectancy of healthy life in Ukraine is 59.2 years, and in European countries - 67 years.
Tatiana Bakhteeva reported that in Ukraine very high rates of child and maternal mortality. "The child mortality rate is 2.5 times higher than the European rates ... The mortality rate for men of working age is higher than in the countries in which the gross national product is 4-6 times lower than in Ukraine."
It should be noted that in Ukraine - one of the highest death rates in the world from diseases of the cardiovascular system: 64% in the structure of total mortality, which is about 500 thousand people a year.