translate English to French: Since the early 1990s the life expectancy of the Ukrainian population as a whole has fallen by three years; it currently stands at 68.08 years, which, nevertheless, represents a slight improvement over the index during the last three years.
Concernant les tendances qui caractérisent l'évolution démographique naturelle, il est à noter qu'elles ont des répercussions négatives sur l'espérance de vie à la naissance.