Some factual statistics on why looking in the FSU makes sense on the numbers!!
Study: Why women outlive men in UkraineA higher mortality among men in the former Soviet Union, including Ukraine, only partly explains why populations in this region have more women, American think tank Pew Research Center found in a study published on Aug. 14.
Citing United Nations data, the research center found that although the global population is majority male, the gender ratio in Ukraine is 86.3 men per 100 women, with other former Soviet nations being similarly low – for example, Russia currently has 86.8 men per 100 women.
Ukraine’s State Statistics Service also states that there were 3.4 million more women than men in Ukraine last year within an overall population of 45.4 million.
Several factors set the former Soviet bloc apart and provide insight to why women outlive men in Ukrainian society.
The former USSR as a whole is older than that of the world, Pew noted, and women tend to live longer as populations age. That coupled with lower fertility rates than the rest of the world skews the population’s gender ratio.
Historically, the former Soviet Union also had a lot more women than men. The main reason is the huge losses that the Red Army incurred during the Second World War, with most of the casualties being men. As a result, the sex repartition of the population was heavily affected. Five years after the war ended in 1950, there were only 75 men for 100 women in what is current-day Ukraine, according to the U.N. This gap progressively narrowed through the years until 1997 when it reached its minimum value of 87.3 men per 100 women.
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