She stressed that "key" are "two national goals - this is natural population growth and life expectancy."
“We are catastrophically losing the population of the country. Over four months, the natural decline in our population amounted to about 149 thousand people, ”Golikova quotes TASS.
She also stated that “in the pursuit of qualitative indicators, very many regions of the country showed the best statistics”.
In March, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, citing data from the Rosstat, reported that the lowest mortality rates in Russia were recorded in the Caucasus.