BIRTH AND DEATH RATE

Ukrainian Ministry of Health states that the death rate in the country is 2 times as high as the birth rate! In 2004 the index of women’s death was 13,5 per 100 thousand of deliveries (the expected figure is 22). Accordingly, the rate of stillborn babies is 9,5 per 1 thousand of live-born babies (11,5). Children from 0 to 14 years old are still in a poor state of health.
In Ukraine the birth rate systematically goes down. First of all, it’s caused by general impoverishment of the population. In connection with cut of real wages, unemployment (both registered and unregistered), extremely low level of pension provisions, most Ukrainian people have found themselves beyond the line of poverty.

In other words, reproduction of the population isn’t provided economically. It concerns creation, provision and bringing up of a new generation as well as reproduction of working power of already existing generations. And if the first influences birth rate, the second affects the population’s health.
A grievous state of elderly people led to the situation when the generation of middle- aged people have to keep not only their children but also their elderly relatives, which turns into a serious factor of further declining birth rate. Decline in living standards is accompanied by unsolved ecological problems, aggravated by Chernobyl accident, social and psychological discomfort, caused by absence of expectations of quick changes for better in today’s social and economic situation.
Unfortunately, in the past years, death rate of Ukraine’s population had been steadily increasing, and by 1994 it had reached the level of 14,7 per 1000 inhabitants of the country (i.e. in comparison with the year 1990, it had increased by 22%). This figure had been increasing both in town and country areas. The average death rate of Ukrainian population is higher by one third than that in Europe and higher by 60% than the death rate in Canada.
In general, it’s necessary to mention that demographic situation in Ukraine is extremely unfavorable. Along with a declining birth rate the death rate is increasing. As a result, since the beginning of the 90-ies there has been registered negative increase in population: in 1991 death rate was higher than birth rate by 39 thousand people, in 1992 death rate exceeded birth rate by 100 thousand people, in 1993- by 184.
In 2004 Ukraine was at the shameful 25th place among 226 countries, that presented their statistics, i.e. 221 countries had lower death rate than Ukraine.
Besides Ukraine, such a low rate of birth was only in Hong Kong, Bulgaria and Latvia.
The main causes of a high death rate, for instance, in Russia, are diseases of circulatory system, ischaemia, cerebrovascular diseases, also flu, acute pneumonia, and parasitic infections. The highest rate of death from cardiovascular disease was registered in Russia in 1995-1998.
There’s still a high rate of infant mortality from respiratory, infectious, and parasitic diseases and from accidents. This rate is much higher than in the countries of EC.
According to official statistics, more than 22 million of the Russians suffer from parasitic infections (helminths).
In Byelorussia, the death rate as to infectious and parasitic diseases has increased by 50,7%.
According to the data of the WHO (1995) every year infectious and parasitic diseases take away 15-16 million of human lives!
(See in the section “Products” a program of body cleansing from contagious and parasitic infections).
The death rate in the class of “Neoformations” is at the second place among all the causes of death. Increase of death rate in this class in the past 12 years has made up 13, 3% (in 2002 there was registered a declining death rate).
The first place among causes of death of Byelorussia’s population is occupied by diseases of circulatory system. Since 1990 the death rate in this class has increased by 40,7%.
One more negative phenomenon in the same period of time is a higher rate of able-bodied people’s death from diseases of respiratory organs (by 22%).
The highest rate of mortality from diseases of digestive organs is registered with people at the age when they’re able to work; on the whole, about the republic, this figure has increased by 90,2%.
On the whole in the world: 7200 thousand people (14%) a year die of ischaemia (coronary disease of the heart). In industrially developed countries this figure is still larger – 30%. This disease has been occupying the tragical first place among causes of death for several decades.
Annually, more than 15 million people in the world die of cardiovascular diseases, 24,5% of all cases fall upon developing countries and countries with transitional economics (10 million out of 40).
In developed countries, these diseases are a cause of 45,6% of all deaths (more than 5 million out of 12 million). Preventive measures against ischaemia (as well as other diseases) have already become principles of a healthy way of life. A well-balanced diet also plays a great role in it. Unfortunately, the lion’s share in our diet is taken up by fatty sorts of meat and animal fats. They must be present in our diet, but we should use them rationally.
According to the data, presented by the WHO, mortality from medicine takes the fifth place, being inferior only to traumas, diseases of circulatory system, oncological and pulmonary diseases. In other words, hundreds of people in the world annually die only because they tried to do the opposite- to prolong their life with the help of medicine.
Nowadays, in developed countries there exists an urgent problem of mortality from suicides. Considering the leading role of these countries in development of social, economic and political tendencies in the world society, we can logically suppose that in some years this cause of death can take the leading positions in the whole world, and the problem will become thus much urgent for any other country.
According to the data, presented by the WHO, by 2020 mental disorders will have entered the first fiver of diseases, that will be leaders in the quantity of loss of people, able to work. In this sphere mental disorders will outrun cardiovascular diseases that have been so far leaders in the sickness rate of the world’s population. Schizophrenia, as it states, will take the fifth place among these diseases. For the last 15 years, the number of schizophrenic people has increased by 30% and today, there are 45 million of these people or 0.8%. Every year the number of schizophrenic people on the planet increases by 4,5 million.