What happened in Russia around 1995 that led to its HDI score dropping lower?

by ocolgan

Life expectancy went down, gross national income per capita went down, expected level of education went down etc etc. Just wondering what led to this bad period right after the fall of the society Union.

Kochevnik81

Not to discourage further answers, but you might want to check out a number of answers I've written that talk about these trends:

  • This answer discusses how the Soviet economy began to unravel in the late 1980s.

  • This answer picks up the story by describing Russia's very rough and chaotic transition to capitalism in the 1990s.

  • And this answer discusses the change in terms of public health in Russia in the 1980s and 1990s, and the knock-on effects it had with regards to demographics.