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What do the new data from Rosstat say about mortality and fertility during the pandemic, a new answer to the question of whether Biden considers Putin a murderer, millionaires from RUSSIA are buying housing in London, how popular are Mir cards - in the RBC review

What you can learn about the pandemic from the annual data of Rosstat

Rosstat has published the final demographic data for 2020. According to adjusted estimates, total mortality in Russia increased by almost 19%, or 340.3 thousand people. This is the highest increase since the mid-1990s. The birth rate over the past year has decreased by 3%.

Deaths directly caused by covid-19 accounted for 42.5% of the annual increase in mortality. The rest of the excess mortality is made up of diseases of the circulatory system, pneumonia, endocrine and other diseases. Fatal outcomes also occurred after recovery from COVID-19, since CORONAVIRUS can lead to complications in chronic diseases, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said earlier.

How the causes of death have changed, how the pandemic affects the birth rate and what indirect effects the pandemic leads to - read in the RBC material.

What became known about the pandemic from Rosstat's annual data on demographics Economics