Demography Death and the demon drink in Russia

Tim Lincoln

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6644, 723-723

Abstract: Mortality statistics from Russia for the period 1984-94 show that life expectancy at first rose over this period then, from the mid-late 1980s, declined alarmingly. But are the statistics to be believed? Analysis of them by an Anglo-Russian collaboration not only concludes that the phenomenon is real, but also puts down the cause of the decline in life expectancy to an increase in alcohol consumption.

Date: 1997
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