Vital and Health Statistics: Russian Federation and United States, Selected Years 1980-93

The first in a series of publications comparing vital and health statistics of the Russian Federation and the United States is available. It contains 18 tables covering population size, natural increase in population, birth rates, life expectancy, infant mortality, death rates, incidence of notifiable diseases, incidence of acquired immunodefiency syndrome (AIDS), levels of health personnel, hospital utilization, and ambulatory care.

Data Highlights:

Life expectancy at birth continues to rise in the United States and decline in the Russian Federation.

Rates of infant mortality decrease in the Russian Federation and in the United States.

The age-adjusted death rate is declining in the United States but is rising in the Russian Federation.

Homicide and suicide rates rose in the Russian Federation during survey years, while they declined in the United States.

This page last reviewed January 11, 2007