Amid low birth rates, war and emigration, Ukraine’s numbers are dwindling

The Washington Post ^ | February 27, 2025 | David Stern, Kostiantyn Khudov

[MinorityRepublican]

KYIV — Ukraine is shrinking.

The war has killed tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers. At least 5 million more have fled and live outside Ukraine, and a fifth of the country — another 5 million people — is under Russian occupation.

Ukraine’s population at independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 was over 50 million. Now just 31 million live in land controlled by Kyiv. And the number of deaths is nearly three times the number of births, according to the justice minister.

These missing Ukrainians — the ones who have fled, the dead, the occupied — have left a gaping hole in today’s Ukraine that will greatly shape what sort of country will be left when the conflict ends. A diminished population could have a major impact on the country’s economic health, political stability, ethnic makeup and ability to fight wars in the future.

As President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump and discuss a deal for the country’s minerals and a possible end to the war, the issue looms in the background.

Reversing the demographic decline is critical and “on par with our victory in the war, achieving a just and stable peace, membership in the E.U. and NATO, and rebuilding the country,” said Mykola Kniazhytskyi, an opposition parliament deputy.

Today, Ukraine’s population, including the areas under Russian occupation, is believed to be just under 36 million, officials say, down from roughly 41 million when the war broke out. These numbers are estimates, however, and could be much lower.

If demographic trends continue, Ukraine’s population is expected to be around 25 million by mid-century and just 15 million in 2100.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Ukraine can be repopulated with Turks, Arabs and Africans.

That seems to be the plan…like the rest of Europe

[aumrl]

And I suggest you check who is on your ‘friends’ back door

[Red6]

Europe, North America, New Zealand, Australia and Israel are culturally tied because they share the same Internet, watch the same movies, listen to the same news and music, are majority Judea-Christian, economic trading partners and the parent culture for all of them are the Euros.

Every social movement in the US goes to Europe (BLM / LGBTQIA), and every movement in Europe comes to the US (ANTIFA).

It’s almost funny, Germany with like 1% black people, has/had a BLM chapter.

Every time we disagree we use some nuance detail to pretend we’re different, but we are culturally more similar than different because we share a common value system and experience life in a similar way.

[Menes]

And we also share the corrupt oligarchs at the top, who squeal about antiracism and are, at the same time, bent on genociding the heritage populations in their own respective countries. The ideas they use to advance this hellish agenda are like a system of communicating vessels. Thus, they ar3 so similar all over the Western world.

That makes these hellish oligarchs the worst racists in the world, and, to me, it shows that Edward Dutton might have been right with his theory of the „spiteful mutants“. That’s what these carbon units (I find it more and more difficult to call them human)appear to be.