Life expectancy tends to go down in countries that invade their neighbors:
Russian scientists have been told to work on treatments that could help tackle the country’s declining life expectancy as part of a decree announced by President Vladimir Putin this year that seeks to “save 175,000 lives” by 2030, according to an investigation.
In May, the Russian leader announced that one of his goals for his fifth term as president was to increase the nation’s life expectancy to 78 years by 2030 and to 81 years by 2036, including by “rapid growth in healthy life expectancy.”
The Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat) released data in July that showed the average life expectancy in Russia had fallen between July 2023 and June 2024, and was 73.24 years—the same as it was in 2017—the Kyiv Post reported.
