The mortality rate has increased by 6.5% compared to the same period of 2015 in Crimea occupied by Russia.
This is evidenced by the Krymstat’s data.
It is reported that the death rate was 4.0 thousand people in January-June 2016 and it increased by 6.5% in comparison with January-June 2015.
The natural decline in population was 4.2 person per 1000 people.
In total, 14.8 thousand people, including 7.4 thousand men and women, died in January-June 2016.
In the first half of 2016, the death rate exceeded the birth rate by 1.4 times.
The diseases of the circulatory system (63.2% of all deaths), neoplasms (14.5%) and external causes of morbidity and mortality (6.8%) are still remaining among the main causes of the death in population.
As a reminder, the mortality rate exceeds the birth rate in Sevastopol as well.
