Of course, the welfare of the country’s population is far beyond economic statistics. in One of the classic examples of 2006, Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel, economically provided an attempt to economically eliminate benefits to the US population from life expectancy and reduced illness. Of course, in this task, you need to choose the value of one year of life expectancy, which is worth on the dollar terms. However, the values are very large. They wrote:
It estimates the economic benefits of lower US mortality rates over the 20th century, and values future benefits from further advances in major diseases. These values are enormous. The profits of life expectancy for the century were worth more than $1.2 million per person to the current population. Between 1970 and 2000, life expectancy earnings added about $3.2 trillion Year The wealth of our nation has half of these benefits from progress only on heart disease. We estimate that even modest advancements against major illnesses are of great value in the future. For example, a permanent 1% reduction in cancer mortality is present value for nearly $500 billion in Americans, but treatment (if possible) is worth about $50 The sign.
Russia shows the opposite situation. It suggests that health statistics are significantly poorer and that the overall welfare of the Russian population is considerably worse than purely economic statistics suggest. Nicholas Eberstadt said,Russia’s Paradox: Very Many Education, Very Little Human Capital” (American companiesApril 8, 2025).
Eberstadt first described Russian education and per capita GDP levels in the context of European countries. As the figure shows, Russia’s per capita GDP (horizontal axis) is located near the bottom of the range of European countries, but its level of education (vertical axis) is quite close to many European countries.
However, while life expectancy around the world is generally increasing, the average life expectancy in Russia has not risen for about half a century. As a result, Russia is paralleled with many of the world’s fewer developed countries in life expectancy in this graph between Haiti and Benin, which lag behind Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Rwanda and others.
How is this possible? One place to start looking for answers is the cause of death. This diagram shows cardiovascular mortality on the horizontal axis and mortality on the vertical axis, in which “injury” includes homicide, suicide, poisoning, and “accident.” Points represent European countries, while Orange Points represent the average for all OECD countries (basically high-income countries around the world). Russia is clearly an outlier.
I leave speculation about certain reasons why Russian health may be so poor for you, mild reader. Considering Russia’s economy and education patterns, it should be noted that such disastrous health statistics suggest deep levels of dysfunction and weakness in Russian society.
