Russia's birth rate rises

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Fri Feb 14 22:47:34 PST 2003


On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 at 9:40am ChrisD(RJ) wrote:


>
> - -Mortality still rising? What about improvements in living standards and
> - -decreasing infant mortality? What is happening? This overall mortality
> - -rate is obscenely high, near that one registered in China in 1959 and
> - -1961.
>
> Alexandre Fenelon
> ---
>
> Cheap, affordable vodka contaminated with poison.
> Filterless cigarettes. Blithe disregard for one's one
> safety.

I thought that was part of the fun of living in Russia, no?


> Mortality rates are high for men, not women. Female life
> expectancy is 72, male 58.

So?

-- no Onan



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