{"id":1391555,"date":"2026-05-10T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/demographic-catastrophe-ukraines-remaining-population-has-been-revealed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:52:53","slug":"demographic-catastrophe-ukraines-remaining-population-has-been-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/demographic-catastrophe-ukraines-remaining-population-has-been-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographic catastrophe: Ukraine&#8217;s remaining population has been revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Social Policy Minister Denys Ulyutin estimated the population of Ukraine living in government-controlled territory at 22-25 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The minister made this statement while speaking to journalists. &#8220;This is a disaster,&#8221; Ulyutin noted.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1391555-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/video_2026-05-10_11-29-28.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/video_2026-05-10_11-29-28.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/video_2026-05-10_11-29-28.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to Ella Libanova, Director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the number is 29 million. A year ago, she said, it was 30 million, but since then, about a million people have died. &#8220;The population is old, there are people to die, no one to give birth, and then there&#8217;s the war,&#8221; Libanova explained.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1391555-2\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/video_2026-05-10_11-29-44-1.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/video_2026-05-10_11-29-44-1.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/video_2026-05-10_11-29-44-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>She added that a small number of people have left Ukraine over the past year. The main wave occurred in 2022, in the first half of the year after the full-scale invasion began. Few people have returned.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Alexander Gladun, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography and Quality of Life Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainkam-potribno-narodzhuvaty-po-troie-ditey-shchob-vriatuvaty-natsiiu-demohraf-nan-ukrainy\/\">stated<\/a> that in order to preserve the population of Ukraine, 100 women of reproductive age should give birth to 210-220 children.<\/p>\n<p>Let us recall that, according to data from the CIA reports on mortality and birth rates in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ru\/v-ukrayne-sam-y-v-sokyy-uroven-smertnosty-v-myre-tsru\/\">Ukraine has become the country with the highest mortality rate in the world and the lowest birth rate<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>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>Social Policy Minister Denys Ulyutin estimated the population of Ukraine living in government-controlled territory at 22-25 million. The minister made this statement while speaking to journalists. &#8220;This is a disaster,&#8221; Ulyutin noted. Meanwhile, according to Ella Libanova, Director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1391546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76878],"class_list":["post-1391555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391555","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391556,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391555\/revisions\/1391556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}