The population of Ukraine has decreased by 10 million from the beginning of the full -scale war - the UN
Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, Florence Bauer, the head of the Eastern European Branch of the UN Foundation in the field of population, stated that the invasion in February 2022 had transformed the already difficult demographic situation in Ukraine into something more serious. "The birth rate has fallen sharply and is now about one child per woman, which is one of the lowest performance in the world," she said.
It is noted that to maintain a stable population requires the birth rate of 2. 1 children per woman. Journalists noted that Ukraine, whose population at the time of the collapse of the USSR in 1991 was more than 50 million people, as well as almost all its neighbors in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, suffered serious losses of the population. In 2021, the last year before the full -scale invasion of Russia, its population was about 40 million.
Bauer stated that the accurate accounting of the impact of war on the population of Ukraine will have to be postponed until the end of the fighting, when, finally, it will be possible to conduct a full census. According to her, the regions that have virtually devoured, villages where only elderly people, and couples, are not able to create families.
At the same time, according to the material, much larger Russia, with a pre -war population of more than 140 million people, also faced the deterioration of the already severe demographic situation after a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. Thus, in the first six months of this year, the country has recorded the lowest birth rate since 1999. Even the Kremlin consider the situation "catastrophic". It is reported that the largest part of Ukraine's population is 6.