Ukraine's population - 42 million before the full-scale invasion in February 2022 - has already shrunk to below 36 million, including several million in areas captured by Russia, according to the demography institute at Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences.It estimates the figure will drop to 25 million by 2051.The collapse is gathering pace.The country has both the highest death rates and lowest birth rates in the world, according to 2024 estimates in the CIA World Factbook: for every birth there are around three deaths.
>>541631479Ukraine is what convinced me that white people are the dumbest race on earth. They are all dying by the millions because some dude thousands of miles away told them to.
>>541631620At one of Hoshcha's two remaining schools, headteacher Marianna Khrypa said the number of first-graders was falling and that about 10% of school leavers were heading abroad, mostly boys."Parents take their children out of the country before they reach the age of 18," she said. Kyiv has barred most men over 18 from leaving the country during the war, although President Volodymyr Zelenskiy raised the age to 22 in August.Ukraine, whose population exceeded 48 million in 2001, faced demographic decline well before the conflict, with millions of citizens heading westward from eastern Europe to escape economic strife and rampant corruption at home.
