RUSSIA'S Male Mortality Highest in World Report.
MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has the world's highest male mortality, the director of the Institute for Family Research, Valery Chervyakov, said at a press conference on Monday.
He said the difference in life expectancy of men and women makes 14 years.
Russia's annual loss of human potential in work age populations because of the high mortality rate is only comparable with consequences of war, Chervyakov said.
He presented a report on Policy of Transitional-Period Control of Crisis Mortality which is based of statistical surveys in the Russian republic of Udmurtia and in Moscow.
Alcohol abuse is a major mortality factor, the report said.