Posted on 10/15/2023 3:08:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
About 93,500 infants were born in Ukraine in the first half of this year, 28% fewer than during the same period in 2021 before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country. While the birth rate in Ukraine had already declined over the past decade, the exodus of the country's female population and the security risks linked to the war have had a catastrophic impact.
According to the worst-case scenario estimated by Ella Libanova, director of the Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the current population of approximately 37 million could fall to 26 million over the next 10 years.
Even before the war, the Ukrainian fertility rate was behind the replacement rate, whereby a woman has to give birth to at least 2.1 children on average to keep the population size steady. In 2021, the ratio had fallen to 1.16, dropping by another 25% the following year.
Svitlana Aksyonova, also a researcher at the Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies, told DW that this decline was more likely a result of the COVID-19 pandemic than the ongoing war. In 2021 alone, there were 86,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus-related deaths.
"Many families decided to postpone having children until a safer epidemiological situation arose," she explained.
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CIA proxy wars have consequences.
"Best money we've ever spent!" --Lindsey Graham.
They just don’t have the time.
Zelensky, the conman extraordinaire, and his Nazi crew have coned the West out of billions and demolished a country?
It's gone. Over. Done.
Native born Americans aren’t having that many kids either...
Possible future mothers know when they’re living in a growing hellhole. That’ thanks to Biden and his ‘elite’ goons and thugs.
Biden brings the third world to us for cheap labor and democrat votes - and American mothers aren’t having kids. Can anyone blame them?
War
Protracted self destruction
For a quickee fix me upper
Have the addadichtomy procedure performed on half the Ukrainian women...problem solved.
Uh, could it be because it takes a woman AND a man to make a baby?
Sorry liberals, but it takes more than just going to the Gender Store.
Ukrainians just have not had TIME to take for procreation, war is their major industry now.
Priorities, man.
One problem with that...Russia did the invading and slaughtering.
One problem with that...Russia did the invading and slaughtering.
On the other hand birthrate in Poland skyrocketed 800%
War brides, eh
Dont forget the impact of WOKE theory on our young that go through college. Girls can be boys etc.
Quite a few of them (maybe not a significant % yet) even take puberty blocker hormones essentially castrating themselves in middle school.
Duh.
It’s difficult ( but not impossible) to do the horizontal bop while being shot at.
5.56mm
Wait, what? Someone’s worried about white folk birth rates?
Why concerning? It means that the war must be over in 18 years since there won’t be any replacement cannon fodder available.
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