Male mortality

The average Russian man lives to about 59 and is much more likely to die before 60 than men in other industrialized nations.

Probability

Life of males

expectancy dying

at birth between

(2004) 15 and 60

Japan 79 9.2%

Australia 78 8.6

Germany 76 11.2

U.S. 75 13.7

Mexico 72 16.1

China 70 15.8

Lebanon 68 19.8

Russia 59 48.5

Afghanistan 42 50.9

Sierra Leone 37 57.9

Zimbabwe 37 85.7
Source: World Bank. Graphics reporting by Julie Sheer

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