Life expectancy in Russia

27 March 2018

27 March 2018 Click the images to get PNG versions. National overview As of 2017, life expectancy at birth in Russia is 72.5 years. This is quite an improvement over the mid 1990s, when life expectancy had fallen into the low 60s, on par with much less developed countries like Sudan and Pakistan. And, for the first time, it is actually a modest improvement over Soviet levels which, in the '60s, topped many Western countries—but then froze in time as the economy stagnated. ...