A third of today's 15-year-olds will die before they reach 60
A third of Russian teenagers will not live to be 60 years old
The head of the expert council on family policy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Yevgeny Yuryev, said that according to research, a third of 15-year-olds living now will die before they reach the age of 60. According to the expert, currently the number of teenagers in Russia is two times less than 25-year-olds. This is reported by RSN.
At the conference "Strategy of Demographic Development of Russia", Yuryev stated that almost 30 percent of all deaths in Russia occur at working age, and the number of pensioners increases by 1 million people annually. In twenty years, the number of able-bodied people aged 20-40 will decrease by half. Thus, the ratio of the able-bodied and disabled population falls below the value of 2:1. In order to ensure the payment of existing social guarantees, pensioners and disabled people will need to work.
The government expert noted that the potential for replenishing the able-bodied population at the expense of pensioners under the age of 65, as well as the disabled of the third group is quite large. The share of employees among these categories of citizens is more than 30 percent.
The demographic "pit" that is currently observed in Russia is associated with the decline in the birth rate in the 1990s. According to the Minister of Health of Russia Veronika Skvortsova, the number of women of fertile (reproductive) age currently will not be able to provide the necessary level of natural population growth for the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last December that demographic programs adopted in the 2000s were working. The population of the country, according to him, not only stabilized, but also began to grow – in the first nine months of 2012, it grew by more than 200 thousand people.
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