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Annual population increase in Adygeya – minus 2 000
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Demographic situation in the republic was the theme of the parliamentary hearings passed in Adygeya on December, 1st. According to the statistics, last years the death rate in the republic stably exceeded the birth rate. The head of the parliamentary committee Evgenie Salov reminded about that “every year the quantity of our population shrinks on average in 2 000 people. And that is only across Adygeya; in Russia demographic loss makes millions. If the demographic situation develops in the same way further in 10 years the Russians will lose 15 million of the population”.
Average life expectancy in the republic, the committee head noted, is 67 years – 3 years longer than across the whole country. The reasons for the complicated demographic situation are general: beginning with low social standard of living and finishing with the attitude of modern youth to concept “family”, considered Salov.
The Minister of Health of Adygeya Adam Jane sounded priority directions in the medical sphere. He told, in particular, that within the limits of the corresponding national project, alongside with equipping of the basic health objects, they planned to re-equip prenatal centers and maternity hospitals that should stimulate the future birth rate.
http://www.adygeanatpress.net/stat_e.php?id=834
