UN: People in Armenia live longer than in other countries of former USSR

PanARMENIAN.Net - In many countries with transitional economy, which once were part of the former USSR, the life expectancy is lower of world figures. UN News Center reports that life expectancy has increased up to 15 years during recent five years reaching 64 for men and 68 for women. These are average statistical world figures.



Women in Ukraine live 72.5 years on average and men -60.5. The figures are lower in Russia: here life expectancy of men is 58.7 years, and Russian women live 71 years on average. In Byelorussia these figures are correspondingly 74 and 63. But in Georgia men live 67 years on average. The best situation is in Armenia, where men live more than 68 and women 75 years.



There exists a great difference in figures of life expectancy between men and women in favor of the latest in all former soviet republics.



In West European and North American countries people live much longer. However, in some developing states the life expectancy does not exceed 40 years. Women in many African states live much less than men, says the report on world population of 2007.



Men live 75 years on average in USA, and women -80 years. In such countries like Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark these figures are equal to correspondingly 77 -78 and 82 -84 years. At the same time women in Zimbabwe live 36 and in Swaziland 29 years on average.