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Main article: Ukraine
Population
2023: The population of Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict with Russia has decreased from 37.6 million to 29 million people
By May 2023, the permanent population of Ukraine was 29 million people against 37.6 million at the beginning of 2022. Such data in June 2023 was published by the analytical center "Ukrainian Institute of the Future" (UIB).
By May 2023, 9.1 million - 9.5 million residents worked in Ukraine, and if you subtract from this number of state employees, there are about 6-7 million people employed in the extra-budgetary sector.
 | They are a team that carries others - 22-23 million people, including pensioners, children, students, unemployed, dependents, the same public sector workers, - say UIB analysts, whose data are provided by TASS on June 6, 2023. |  |
According to the researchers' forecasts, if nothing changes, then in a few years there will be twice as many pensioners in Ukraine as working citizens. The UIB explains that the announced estimate of the country's population is based on data from the Ukrainian Institute of Demography and Social Sciences named after Mikhail Ptukha, data from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as on the organization's own estimates.
| | I believe that the figure of 29 million inhabitants announced by the UIB is still a very large advance to the current Ukraine. I am sure that in reality its population today is much smaller. We remember that at the time of the collapse of the USSR, the population of the republic was estimated at 52 million people. But since then, over the years of independence, the number of people living in Ukraine has been steadily falling. In addition, several densely populated regions fell away from Ukraine. But the strongest influence on the decline in the number of Ukrainians was mass migration - these are people who are looking for a better life in other countries, as well as those who do not want to participate in hostilities against Russian troops, military analyst Yuriy Kotenok told the Federal News Agency.[1] | |
2020:15% population decline in 30 years
2018: Population decline since 1989 by 14% to 43.9 million
Migration
2023: Over two years of armed conflict, more than 17 thousand citizens of the country were detained while trying to illegally cross the border
According to the Border Service of Ukraine, in 2023, 7,708 Ukrainian citizens were detained in 11 months while trying to illegally cross the border.
In 2022 - 9,435 citizens. Total - more than 17 thousand people.
Ukrainian border guards did not catch 4,399 citizens in 2023, 4,630 in 2022. They were detained already in Moldova and neighboring EU countries. Total=9,029.
3,613 criminal cases were opened.
2022: Wave of refugees returning to Ukraine during conflict
2021: Net outflow over 4 years
Citizens abroad
2024: Millions of Ukrainian refugees live in Russia and Europe
2023: 8.2 million Ukrainian refugees in Europe
According to the estimates of the "Ukrainian Institute of the Future" (UIB), announced in June 2023, from the moment the military special operation of the Russian Federation began, 20.7 million people left Ukraine, but subsequently 12.1 million returned.
According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees as of May 23, 2023, there are more than 8.2 million refugees from Ukraine in European countries. Of these, only slightly more than 5.1 million people have official status in European countries.
2020: More than 7,000 Ukrainians received a "Pole card"
In 2020, 7094 citizens of Ukraine received the so-called "Pole card," which confirms the person's belonging to the Polish people. Such a card can be obtained by persons living outside Poland.
2018: Labour migrants surge
2015:13% of those born in Ukraine permanently reside abroad
In 2015, 13% of people born in Ukraine permanently live outside of Ukraine.
Share of the population living in the capital
2018: Only 7% of the population lives in Kyiv
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Male-to-female ratio
Age
Marriages and divorces
2025: In Ukraine, the number of new marriages for the year increased by 10.2%, the number of divorces decreased by 23.4 %
In 2025, 165.59 thousand new marriages were concluded in Ukraine. This figure by 10.2%, or 15.38 thousand new marriages, exceeded the result of 2024. At the same time, the number of divorces decreased by 23.4%, or 8.01 thousand, amounting to 26.28 thousand. This is evidenced by the data of the report of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on state registration of acts of civil status, published on January 28, 2026.
The dynamics of marriages and divorces in Ukraine in 2025 became the opposite to the trends of the previous period. In 2024, 150.21 thousand marriages were registered in the country, which is 19.3%, or 38.84 thousand, less than in 2023. And the number of divorces in 2024 increased by 42.2%, or 10.18 thousand - to 34.29 thousand.
In the second half of 2025, marriage activity was significantly higher than in the first: the number of registered marriages increased by 41.4%, reaching 96.99 thousand. The number of divorces in the same period increased by 7.1% - to 13.59 thousand.
On national average, there were 6.3 marriages per registered divorce in 2025. The highest ratio was noted in Kyiv (10 marriages per divorce), Lviv (8.7) and Transcarpathian (8.6) regions, as well as in Rivne region (8.3). The lowest indicators were demonstrated by Zaporizhzhya, Cherkasy, Kharkov, Poltava, Vinnytsia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, where the ratio was from 4.3 to 4.8 marriages per divorce.
By comparison, in 2024, there were 4.4 marriages for one divorce. The best ratio was recorded in Rivne (8.1 marriages for divorce) and Transcarpathian (7.2 marriages for divorce) regions. The lowest indicators were noted in Ternopil, Kharkov, Cherkasy, Vinnitsa and Khmelnitsky regions, where there were 3.3 to 3.6 marriages per divorce.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Justice, in 2021, 214.01 thousand marriages and 29.59 thousand divorces were registered in Ukraine. In 2022, in the first year of Russia's special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine, the number of marriages increased to 222.89 thousand, and the number of divorces decreased to 17.89 thousand.[2]
2018: Divorce rate - 67.4%
Fertility and mortality
Main article: Birth and mortality in Ukraine
Children
2025: The number of school-age children in Ukraine has decreased to 3.74 million. This is at least 30 years
As of the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, the number of school-age children in Ukraine was about 3.74 million, which is the lowest figure in 30 years. Moreover, every tenth student, although listed in the Ukrainian education system, is actually outside the country. This is stated in the materials with which TAdviser got acquainted in mid-November 2025.
According to the NGL Media resource, citing data from the State Statistics Service and the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, 9.3% of Ukrainian schoolchildren study abroad, or about 345 thousand children. Many high school students, especially young men, leave the country due to the prevailing geopolitical situation. The proportion of girls in the upper classes of Ukrainian schools increases slightly annually, but the difference between the sexes remains insignificant (1-2%).
| | The main reason for traveling abroad among high school students remains the issue of safety - this includes both the excitement of parents about a possible decrease in the mobilization age to 18 years, and the general anxiety for the lives of children in the country, - said in the publication of NGL Media. | |
According to UN estimates, about 1.4 million Ukrainian refugees worldwide are children and adolescents aged 3 to 17 years. A UNESCO study suggests that almost 665 thousand Ukrainian schoolchildren studied in the EU countries alone in 2024. More than a quarter (29%) of Ukrainian school-age refugees study in Europe in two programs - local and Ukrainian, spending an additional three hours a day on this.
In 10 European countries, an average of 78% of Ukrainian pupils were enrolled in formal educational institutions, according to data compiled by UNESCO and the UN Office for Refugees. However, inequality persists - especially for children with disabilities and those facing language barriers.[3]
2018
Dominant haplogroup
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National and racial composition
Slavs
Russians
Jews
Black
2020: Black population share 0.01%
Xenophobia
Billionaires in Ukraine
Main article: Billionaires in Ukraine
Poverty in Ukraine
2020:22% of Ukrainians are malnourished
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Notes
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