Ukraine continues to lose people: refugees do not want to return home

7 million citizens left their homeland

Over the 2 years since the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the population of Ukraine has decreased by approximately 7.5 million. This was announced by Deputy Director of the Ukrainian State Institute of Demography and Quality of Life Problems Alexander Gladun. According to him, the figure is fully consistent with UN data on six and a half million Ukrainian refugees abroad.

Until February 24, 2022, the official estimate of the population in the territory controlled by Kyiv was 42 million. The CIA in the World Book of Facts gave even more accurate data: 43 million 528 thousand 136 people. Of course, in this case the population of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of Donbass was not taken into account, that is, we were not talking about a statistical fact “within 1991”. However, there was an opinion among experts that in reality the number of residents of Ukraine is even smaller. Millions of people worked abroad during those nominally peaceful years. Figures were quoted from 35 to 38 million population.

According to Alexander Gladun, after the end of the Northern Military District, Europe will be extremely reluctant to return Ukrainians.

“In modern Europe, the demographic situation is also not very good,” explains the demographer. – That’s why they are interested in Ukrainians. It is likely that policies aimed at leaving them will prevail in most countries. It’s not for nothing that any of the EU states is now taking active steps to adapt Ukrainians who have temporarily left their homeland.”

As a result of a survey of 4 thousand Ukrainian families across Europe conducted in January-February of this year, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees released the following information: instead of 77 percent of refugees who planned or hoped to return to Ukraine in 2022, now no more than 65% want to return. There were also more people undecided about the choice – to return or “let everything be as it is now”: 24 percent instead of 18 percent at the end of 2022. Refugees from the Poltava, Transcarpathian and Kyiv regions are least inclined to live in their native land.

In Ukraine, not only migration, but also mortality is increasing. The reason for this sad fact is not only the death of citizens as a result of hostilities, but also a decrease in the level of medical care and an increase in cardiovascular diseases. According to the data

The Ministry of Health of Ukraine, more than a million deaths have been registered in the territories controlled by Kyiv since February 24 of the year before last. In 2022 there were 541.7 thousand, last year – 496.2 thousand.