More than 164 thousand Russians in 2015 had not died of natural causes: died from alcohol and drugs, had been killed or did not survive the consequences of other violent crimes, become victims of accidents.
In 2015 in Russia died of 1 million 911 thousand 413 people, according to the annual report of the Commissioner for human rights. Its author, the Ombudsman, Ella Pamfilova, said that a quarter of the dead — 458 281 thousand people of working age.
164 276 thousand people died an unnatural death from external causes: were killed, died from alcohol or drugs, were killed in the accident. Most of them are people of working age: 120 761 thousand people.
“The figures are slightly better than in 2014, but nevertheless very alarming. This inexcusable loss of life from unnatural causes, especially among men of working age,” — says the statistics Pamfilova.
In his report the Ombudsman speaks about alcoholism and anesthesia population, comparing drug addiction and related crime according to the degree of threat from international terrorism. The average age of beginning drug user in Russia decreased to 11 years, she notes, is widely distributed synthetic drugs, and many regions cut spending on anti-drug prevention.
Pamfilova also refers to the interior Ministry that 32,1% of all calls in 2015 crimes were committed in a state of alcoholic intoxication. About 13 thousand of Russians died due to alcohol poisoning.
Another reason of the high mortality rate — fatal accidents. Every year in Russia on 100 thousand persons is recorded 18,9 death on the road, said in published in the autumn of 2015 the global report of the world health organization (who). This is two times higher than in Europe, where the rate is 9.3.
Worldwide every year in traffic accidents killed 1 million 300 thousand people, 20 to 50 million are injured. In 2015 in Russia there was 184 thousand accidents, which killed 23 thousand 114 people, according to the report of the Commissioner. Another 231 thousand 197 people were injured.
Among those who died in accidents — 1 28 thousand children, affected nearly 27 thousand children.
Separately Pamfilova noted increase mortality among patients with HIV. According to reports, the number of HIV infections in Russia is growing annually by about 10 thousand people, and this conclusion is made only on the basis of counting reported cases. In 2015 in Russia died 20 612 thousand HIV-infected, or 16.6% more than in 2014.
