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ALIAKSANDR CHUBRYK
PHOTO: VOLHA SHUKAILA, TUT.BY

On why Belarus has stopped publishing data on mortality.

Well-known economist Aliaksandr Chubryk asks in his article for tut.by why such important figures are hidden from people nowadays.

- Why are the latest data on the population, which we know is the preliminary figure as of April 1, 2020? Why wasn't the data on births and deaths for the first half of the year published in 2020, and 9 months - the deadline set by the Council of Ministers' decree No. 911 of December 24, 2019, has long passed?

Why do experts have to be hunting for data from civil registries, gathering bits and pieces of information about doctors' deaths from the media in order to try to estimate the real scale of the 2020 mortality rate? Because the people, who are professionals of the European level, for some reason are hiding from the people what belongs to them - the truth.

Believe me, it will not scare anyone, just as the real figure of unemployment did not scare in its time. What scares is what we can become if we continue in the same vein.

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