UN: PEOPLE IN ARMENIA LIVE LONGER THAN IN OTHER COUNTRIES OF FORMER USSR

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.06.2007 15:58 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In many countries with transitional economy, which
once were part of the former USSR, the life expectancy is lower
of world figures. UN News Center reports that life expectancy has
increased up to 15 years during recent five years reaching 64 for
men and 68 for women. These are average statistical world figures.

Women in Ukraine live 72.5 years on average and men -60.5. The figures
are lower in Russia: here life expectancy of men is 58.7 years, and
Russian women live 71 years on average. In Byelorussia these figures
are correspondingly 74 and 63. But in Georgia men live 67 years on
average. The best situation is in Armenia, where men live more than
68 and women 75 years.

There exists a great difference in figures of life expectancy between
men and women in favor of the latest in all former soviet republics.

In West European and North American countries people live much
longer. However, in some developing states the life expectancy does
not exceed 40 years. Women in many African states live much less than
men, says the report on world population of 2007.

Men live 75 years on average in USA, and women -80 years. In such
countries like Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark these figures
are equal to correspondingly 77 -78 and 82 -84 years. At the same
time women in Zimbabwe live 36 and in Swaziland 29 years on average.