The average life expectancy for Mongolian men is 65 years, which is 9.5 years shorter than women, the country’s Ministry of Health said in a statement on Tuesday.
The ministry stated that the annual number of men who died of liver and lung cancer was 11.3 per cent higher than that of women.
It noted that “on average, over 17,000 people die every year in Mongolia, of which 62 per cent are males.
“A 33.1 per cent of men’s mortality rate is due to cardiovascular disease and 25.6 per cent is due to cancer.
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D. Nyamsuren, Head of Council of Urology and Andrology at Mongolia’s Ministry of Health,
said at an event to discuss men’s health that “but this is not a detailed study. There is no detailed research on men’s health in Mongolia. Therefore, government needs to pay more attention to research on men’s health.”
High consumption of tobacco and alcohol by men, resulting in diseases such as lung and liver cancer and cardiovascular problems, is considered the reason Mongolian men have shorter lifespan than women on average.
