18:10
Lena Batina
These statistics were stated by Tatyana Bahteeva, Health Minister of the
Regions party, the Head of the Verhovna Rada Committee, referring to the
forecasts of experts.
In her words, the population of Ukraine has decreased by almost 7 million
over the past 15 years, a drop from 52.2 million to 45.6 million.
"If in 1970 citizens of the Ukraine and other European states on average
lived to 70 years of age, today our people live 10 years less than citizens of
the European Union. Ukraine is occupies 150th position out of 223 countries in
terms of life expectancy" stated T. Bahteeva, speaking on Wednesday, 21
December, at the Committee Hearings, "Health - 2020: The Basic Principles of the
State Policy of the Ukraine in the Area of Healthy Living and Prevention of
Noncommunicable Diseases and the Ways of its Realization".
She emphasized that an analysis of the demographic situation in Ukraine
shows that unlike most European countries, the population of Ukraine "is not
threatened by old age", that is 80-85 years and over.
"The value of this indicator in our country is very modest. According to
this, Ukraine is ranked 34th on the list of 43 European countries, USA and
Canada. Such a demographic situation is caused by a high degree of morbidity of
the population, with cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory
diseases leading the charts."
Furthermore T. Bahteeva underlined that today Ukraine is annually losing
more than 700,000 of its citizens, one third of whom are people of working age.
Concurrently, mortality in Ukraine amounts to 15.2 whereas in countries of the
EU, the number is 6.7 to every 1,000 of the population.
"The mortality rate of men of working age in Ukraine is higher even than
those countries whose gross national product (GNP) is 4-6 times lower than that
of our country", outlined T. Bahteeva. From UNIAN data.
0 коммент.:
Отправить комментарий