“Since 2010, the mortality rate from alcohol-related causes has decreased by 30.1% from 47.5 per 100 thousand people, and since 2016 it has decreased by 13.5% from 38.4 per 100 thousand people, and according to the results of 2018, it amounted to 33.2 per 100 thousand people, ”RIA Novosti reports.
It is clarified that the mortality rate from external causes also decreased - by 35% compared with 2010 data.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health called Chukotka and Yakutia the regions - leaders in the incidence of alcoholism in Russia.