The life expectancy of Russians is growing before the election

In annual official statistics, the maximum growth rate of the expectant life expectancy falls on years before the presidential election. RBC paid attention to this.

According to the publication, before the elections of 2008, 2012, 2018, the increase in the indicator reached 0.8-0.9 years, and the next year it decreased two to four times. In general, as the publication writes, life expectancy in Russia has been continuously growing since 2003 in a wave -like.

In Rosstat, who publishes statistics, they say that these factors are not connected. The agency claims that cold weather and incidence of flu affects life expectancy. So, they say in the department, in 2018, a cooling in March and April affected life expectancy. And the year before the weather did not change so much. Waves of cold and incidence also affect world statistics, noted in Rosstat.

The indicator of the expectant life expectancy over the year measures the mortality rate of the entire population of the country for a specific period.