Russia’smale population numbered 65.7 million and the female population 76.3million in early 2008, as women outnumbered men by 16 percent (10.6million people), the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat)reported. Women are seen to outnumber men by population from the age of28 years old, and the gap increases with age. The only two Russianregions where the male population was higher than female were theChukotka autonomous district and the Kamchatka region, where there are931 and 980 women for each 1,000 men, respectively.
Accordingto Rosstat data, 14 percent of Russian residents were aged 65 and aboveat the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, the average age of thecountry’s residents is 38.7 years (up from 38.5 years in 2007),including 36 years old (35.8) for men, and 41 (40.8) for women. In thewake of a decrease in mortality, life expectancy among men born in 2007reached 61.4 years, increasing by 1 year from 2006, while among womenlife expectancy rose by 0.7 years to 73.9 years, against 73.2 in 2006.
Interestinglyenough, the last time this type of increase in life expectancy was seenwas during the anti-alcohol campaign in the late 1980s.