AGE PECULIARITIES AND DYNAMICS OF FEMALE POPULATION MORTALITY IN RUSSIA

Though high male mortality is considered to be a marker of negative demographic processes in Russia, situation with female mortality occurs to be less favourable.
The aim is to manifest the sources of unstable female mortality dynamics, age groups and death causes slowing down life expectancy growth in females during 2002-2010.
Mortality decreased by 15-23% depending upon age. In young and middle ages positive trends developed after 2005, in women over 50 - during the first part of decade.
Mortality decline in all age groups was due to external causes. In young and middle ages general positive dynamics was intensified by reduction of deaths in circulatory and respiratory diseases. But mortality from infections and digestive diseases retards positive processes.
Considering essential share of marginal deaths in external causes (alcohol poisonings, homicides, drawnings, falls etc.) it is possible to assume that their reduction reflects gradual negotiation of population marginalization, growth of living standards, decrease of poverty scale. But growth of mortality from infections and digestive diseases evidences that marginalization factor is not overcome. The form of its manifestation changes: in 1990s marginal population increased mortality risk from external causes, nowadays their mortality switches to somatic causes.