{"id":1306584,"date":"2025-10-15T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-imf-has-predicted-ukraines-population-if-the-war-ends\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:30:40","slug":"the-imf-has-predicted-ukraines-population-if-the-war-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-imf-has-predicted-ukraines-population-if-the-war-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"The IMF has predicted Ukraine&#8217;s population if the war ends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"299\"><strong data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"297\">If Russia&#8217;s full-scale war against Ukraine ends, the country&#8217;s population will stabilize at around 34 million people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"408\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Publications\/WEO\/Issues\/2025\/10\/14\/world-economic-outlook-october-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is stated<\/a> in the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s World Economic Outlook forecast for October 2025.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"410\" data-end=\"544\"> According to IMF estimates, Ukraine&#8217;s actual population in 2021 was 41 million, a figure that has declined significantly since the start of the war: <\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"650\"><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"578\">\n<p data-start=\"547\" data-end=\"578\"> 2022 &#8211; 34.5 million people,<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"614\">\n<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"614\"> 2023 &#8211; 34.026 million people,<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"615\" data-end=\"650\">\n<p data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"650\"> 2024 &#8211; 33.343 million people.<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"759\"> In its forecast, the IMF expects a gradual resumption of demographic indicators after the end of hostilities: <\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"760\" data-end=\"975\"><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"760\" data-end=\"795\">\n<p data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"795\"> 2025 &#8211; 32.862 million people,<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"796\" data-end=\"831\">\n<p data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"831\"> 2026 &#8211; 33.383 million people,<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"867\">\n<p data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"867\"> 2027 &#8211; 34.006 million people,<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"903\">\n<p data-start=\"870\" data-end=\"903\"> 2028 &#8211; 33.981 million people,<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"939\">\n<p data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"939\"> 2029 &#8211; 33.957 million people,<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"940\" data-end=\"975\">\n<p data-start=\"942\" data-end=\"975\"> 2030 \u2013 33.936 million people.<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"1172\"> According to the IMF&#8217;s baseline scenario, a full-scale war could end by the end of 2025, which would facilitate a partial return of Ukrainian refugees and stabilization of the population.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"1172\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Russia&#8217;s full-scale war against Ukraine ends, the country&#8217;s population will stabilize at around 34 million people. This is stated in the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s World Economic Outlook forecast for October 2025. According to IMF estimates, Ukraine&#8217;s actual population in 2021 was 41 million, a figure that has declined significantly since the start of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":369330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1306584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}