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Ukraine 2020 war10/17/2023 ![]() These people are not a random cross-section of Ukrainian society. Things are much worse now that more than a fifth of the remaining population currently lives in exile. Long before the 2022 invasion, Ukraine was in danger of running out of Ukrainians. By 2020, if you exclude the territories already occupied by Russia, the population had dropped to 37.3 million. By 2001 it had dropped to 1.1, and after a slight uptick to 1.5 in 2012, it stood at only 1.2 in 2020.īetween 19 – the year of Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the Donbas – Ukraine’s population dropped from 51.7 million to 45.1 million. ![]() Ukraine’s total fertility rate at the time of its independence in 1991 was 1.8 births per woman – already below the replacement rate of 2.1. The mass exodus will make it harder for the country to remain a viable independent state with a functioning economy. ![]() After eight months of fighting – and with no end to the war in sight – the prospect that many refugees may never return will exacerbate an ongoing population decline in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion in February, about 8 million Ukrainians have fled the country.
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