The number of men in Ukraine has declined sharply

In the past 10 years in Ukraine rapidly shrinking population and evolving demographic crisis, according to "Observer". Statistical data on the occasion of World Population Day, said the deputy chairman of the State Committee for Statistics of Ukraine Natalia Vlasenko that the country rapidly falling birth rate and decreasing life expectancy of its citizens. So when in 1989 the birth rate was a little over the death, in 2004, the situation in the country of a thousand babies born has changed 427.3, and died - 761 300 people. According to Natalia Vlasenko, people are dying in Ukraine often and earlier than women. You have only 46.2% of the total population, that is, an average of 1,000 women in the Ukraine has 858 men. The difference in life expectancy between men and women in Ukraine is 11.5 years, while in developed countries this figure is 5 to 6 years. Live representatives manage half of humanity, on average, 62.6 years and the weaker sex is not to 74. Among the countries of the former Soviet Union, Ukraine to 3.4 years of life expectancy ahead of Russia, Kazakhstan and 2.6 years and is almost on par with Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova.