Birth rate in Tatarstan is 7.1 percent above average figures in Russia

According to results of five months of the current year, the Kukmor region (Tatarstan) leads in the birth rate. Such information was presented by the RT Minister of health care Airat Farrakhov at a briefing at the RT Government House.

The minister informed that natural population growth is observed because of the two tendencies: the birth rate growth and progressive decline in the death rate.

The birth rate growth has been fixed in Tatarstan since 2006. Within five years it has increased 37. 5 percent. The birth rate now accounts for 13.8 per 1,000 population.

The lowest death rate was registered in 2011 (12.4 deaths per 1,000 population). For six months it has decreased and is 12.2 per 1,000 population.

According to the RT Minister of health care, the birth rate in Tatarstan is  7.1 percent above average figures in Russia and 7.9 percent above average rates in the Volga Federal District.

Airat Farrakhov informed that the highest birth rate for five months of 2012 was registered in the Kukmor region, Naberezhnye Chelny, Muslyumovsky, Yutazinsky, and Aznakaevsky regions. The lowest birth rate was registered in Tetyushsky, Drozhzhanovsky, Kamsko-Ustinsky, Kaibitsky and Alkeevsky regions.