Mikhail Gorbachev has died

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by LtWorf on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:32PM (#32655996)

Check life expectancy of russians… it is not the same… it has gone worse.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by bee_rider on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:57PM (#32657098)

I tried googling

Search Term : Result

Life expectancy Russia 1990 : 68.89

Life expectancy Russia 2019 : 73.08

For reference, in the US:

Life expectancy US 1990 : 75.21

Life expectancy US 2019 : 78.79

I dunno nothing really stands out. It looks like Russians benefited a little bit more, but Americans were starting from a higher baseline so it makes sense that gains would be harder to come by.

2019 was selected rather than 2021 for obvious reasons.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by stefan_ on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:55PM (#32657453)

You need to Google for males specifically, both for cultural and historic reasons.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by avmich on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:59PM (#32656265)

Unimpressed. How much worse? USA life expectation went worse for last couple of years - is it enough argument for the lack of an argument?

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by qwytw on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:59AM (#32659228)

It went from 69 years to 65 in 2005 when it started rising again. However life expectancy in the USSR seems to have been mostly stagnant since the 1960's, so I'm not sure the situation was that great in 1990.

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