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Yablokov: Mortality after Chernobyl 203Figure 7.17. Trend in infant mortality rates in Sweden, 1980–2006, and undisturbedtrend line. Based on official statistical data (Körblein, 2008).average mortality rate among them should beexpected.7.3.1. Belarus1. Mortality of male liquidators who workedin 1986 is higher than liquidators who workedin 1987 (Borysevich and Poplyko, 2002).7.3.2. Ukraine1. The mortality rate of the Ukrainian liquidatorsfrom nonmalignant diseases increasedsteadily from 1988 to 2003 (Figure 7.19).2. Total mortality in contaminated territoriesand among liquidators increased significantlyfrom 1987 to 2005 (Figure 7.20).3. The mortality among male Ukrainianliquidators increased more than fivefold from1989 to 2004, from 3.0 to 16.6 per 1,000,as compared to mortality rates of 4.1 to 6.0per 1,000 among other men of working age(Horishna, 2005).4. After 1995, the mortality of liquidatorsexceeded the mortality of the correspondingpopulation group (Law of Ukraine, 2006).7.3.3. Russia1. Ten years after the Chernobyl catastrophe,the mortality rate among liquidators employedin 1986 was significantly increased (EcologicalSecurity, 2002).Figure 7.18. Trend of infant mortality rates in Switzerland, 1980–2006, and undisturbedtrend line. Based on official statistical data (Körblein, 2008).