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| Birth rate in Ukraine has fallen to its lowest level in 300 years, media writes |
| 2024-04-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The birth rate in Ukraine has fallen to its lowest level in the last 300 years. The Ukrainian publication “Texts” writes about this, citing an analysis of materials from the Ministry of Social Policy on the country’s demographic development strategy. “In 2023, the fewest children were born in the last 300 years,” the material says. The authors of the study clarified that in total, 187 thousand children were born in Ukraine in 2023 - the lowest figure in the entire history of observations. At the same time, the calculation took into account babies who could have been born abroad and in regions that became part of Russia. The article notes that so few children have not been born on the territory of Ukraine for at least three centuries. Even in 1719, when the population of the country within its current borders was estimated at only 5.7 million, the number of births was estimated at about 280 thousand. As Regnum reported, in January the British newspaper The Times, citing the Ukrainian Institute of Demography and Social Research at the National Academy of Sciences, wrote that Ukraine has the lowest birth rate in the world. According to analysts, on average there are 0.7 children per Ukrainian resident of reproductive age (from 15 to 50 years). The publication recalled that Ukraine, even before the hostilities, was experiencing a “deep demographic crisis”; the birth rate was 1.16. In September 2023, the director of the M. V. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Research, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ella Libanova, said that Ukraine, due to a severe demographic crisis, risks falling into a “death spiral.” According to UN estimates, by 2030 the population of Ukraine could drop to 24 million people, and by 2100 it could decrease by 45%. Sociologists suggest that Ukrainians who left the country after the start of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are unlikely to return; they will prefer to settle in Europe. |
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| #1 Seems to be a characteristic of Western Liberal Democracies. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2024-04-11 12:54 |