Belorussian women, be tender with your men!

If today's death rate will be the same in future, almost one third of men living in Minsk won't live to see their pension. Our sociologists came to such a sad conclusion. According to the materials of Minsk city statistical bureau, in 1997 more than 4,5 thousand of Minsk citizens died in able-bodied age (or 419 per 100 thousand population of a proper age). By the way, men die 4 times more often than women. Experts suppose that such a tendency still exists. This problem causes many other ones. For example the disproportion in correlation of men and women is increasing. In the beginning of 1998 for every 1000 of men in Minsk there was 1160 of women.

By Oksana Ospischeva.
Translated by Olga Detiuk http://www.belarus.net/Index/Team/FLC/Detiuk/index.htm
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