Life Expectancy

Head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova has announced that in the past five years the life expectancy in Russian has increased by 3.7 years.

According to the minister, in 2011 the life expectancy in Russia was 70.3 years (for men - 64.3 years and for women - 76.1 years). In 2006, men lived 60.4 years and women - 73.2 years. Thus, the average Russian woman lives 10 years less than the average woman in Italy, the United States or Germany. The life of a man in Russia is 15 years shorter than in the developed countries.

The good news is that Russian men do not need to worry about their pension plans: most of them will not live to retirement.