“Russia will die out at a rate of 600 thousand people a year”
Russia is in danger of slipping from 9th to 18th place in the world in terms of population by 2050. Writes about it “FederalPress” referring to a bug report at the National Health 2022 Medical Congress.
Kirill Masliev reported that life expectancy due to the pandemic incidence of more than 2 years. At the same time, the price of medicines increased by 12%, while the solvency of Russians decreased by 7%.
“Negative is issued by Rosstat – it is expected that the population of the country will be reduced by 600 thousand people annually,” said Kirill Masliev.
In turn, Deputy Minister of Health Oleg Salagay said that during the pandemic, enormous pressure arose on the primary link of morbidity, after all, the provision of planned medical care was frozen in some regions, which sharply increased the number of patients with exacerbation of chronic diseases.
According to experts, today there is a problem with infections. In the USSR, its essence was a general medical examination, which today is not of a general and mandatory nature. According to WHO, today 85% of the causes that form mortality in our country are alcohol, nicotine, hypertension plus high cholesterol and atherosclerosis.
Oleg Apolikhin, director of the Research Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology, noted that Russia occupies only 9th place in terms of demographics.
“And if the situation does not change, then, according to UN analysts, by 2050 we will be in 18th place,” Apolikhin said, calling this scenario “fatal.”