Russia’s Demographics: “This Is Not a Portrait of a Successfully and Rapidly Developing Economy — Much Less an Emerging Economic Superpower”
Published: October 25th, 2008
The New York Times:
In 2006, overall life expectancy in Russia, at fewer than 67 years, was actually lower than it had been at the end of the 1950s, nearly half a century earlier. For a literate, urbanized society during peacetime, such a monumental public health failure is an extraordinary historical anomaly. Russian life expectancy nowadays is about the same as India’s, and life expectancy for Russian men, today barely over 60 years, is lower than for their counterparts in Pakistan.
This, of course, makes Russia even scarier, because Russia’s problems tend to become the world’s problems.
Via Mark J. Perry.
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