Working-Age Russians Experiencing "Hyper-Mortality" According To UN Demographic Report - AFP

An alarming new word has been born. It is "hypermortality," which might be defined as an extraordinary tendency toward death. It jumps from the first page of the U.N. Development Program report entitled "Demographic Policy in Russia."
"The Russian phenomenon of hypermortality comes to be observed primarily in working-age populations," it says.

"Compared to the majority of countries that have similar levels of economic development, mortality in Russia is 3-5 times higher for men and twice as high for women." What this means, the report says, is that the size of the working-age population "will fall by up to 1 million people annually already by 2020-25." The effect of this will be to raise the dependency load (the number of young and old people dependent on those of working age) to 670 to 750 per thousand by 2020 and to 900 to 1,000 per thousand by 2025.

"This will inevitably influence economic growth rates," the report notes. "At the moment, there are no grounds to believe that the crisis will be overcome and the size of the population will be stabilized," it adds.

The report, while commissioned and published by the U.N. agency, was entirely prepared and written by Russian experts led by Professor Valery Yelizarov, head of Moscow State University's Center for Population Studies. It was peer reviewed by Germany's Max Planck Institute.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Walkers_World_Russias_hypermortality_999.html

thinking of Iraq and Afghan. people and our troops.

alcohol is laying waste to Russia.

Read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. She details the destruction and misery that Chicago School policies have wrought wherever they're implemented.

This latest news is only to be expected; it's really a sign of success as far the Chicago School boys are concerned. It's what they've got planned for us.

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Perhaps I'm being melodramatic, but it's sad and a bit creepy to see an entire culture committing a kind of demographic suicide.

Voluntary human extinction.

If humanity was a "plague species" as Reg Morrison contends, we might expect to see various population-restraining effects as we reached the top of our growth curve. Crashing fertility in various places might be one such effect, odd pockets of hyper-mortality might be another.

we have some very serious hyper-hyper-hyper mortality coming before 2100, and perhaps much sooner.

May God help us all.