Russian invasion sends Ukraine population plummeting by 8 million

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00:00A new facet of the war in Ukraine has been revealed in a recent report by the UN Population

00:05Fund. Before the war, Ukraine had one of the lowest birth rates in Europe and has seen

00:11many young people leave in search of more opportunities abroad. But the country has

00:16seen a drastic drop in population since the outbreak of war in 2022. At the time the Ukrainian

00:22population stood at 43 million. It has now dropped by 8 million people. The report puts

00:29it down to a combination of different factors.

00:32But with Russia's full-scale invasion that started in 2022, the situation got significantly

00:39worse. The birth rate plummeted and is currently at around one child per woman, which is one

00:45of the lowest in the world. At the same time, we have millions of people who have been displaced.

00:51We know that we have internally displaced people and we have 6.7 million that are externally

00:56refugees.

00:58Where the externally displaced tend to be women and children, an increase in male mortality

01:03is also at the heart of the problem.

01:06In addition to that, you have the casualties. As you know, it's difficult to have exact

01:11numbers of this, but the estimate range around several tens of thousands of casualties, which

01:18of course add to the equation.

01:21Ukraine's demographic crisis will have to be addressed if the country hopes to one day

01:25rebuild after years of war.

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