The UN made a scary demographic forecast for Ukraine, according to which by 2100 the country's population will melt to 15.3 million people.
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs noted this in its projections for world population in the coming decades. According to the UN, the population of Ukraine is 37,441,000 as of January 1, 2024.
It was also reported that Ukraine's population will increase to 39.7 million by 2026, after which it will begin to decline annually. At this rate, the population could drop to 15.3 million individuals by 2100.
In 2014, the population of Ukraine was over 45 million. After the full-scale war launched by Vladimir Putin in February 2022, millions of Ukrainians fled their homes. A huge part of them are in other European countries.
The Ukrainian Institute of Demography noted that such a UN forecast is very pessimistic, reported “Ukrainian Pravda”. “I would not advise to interpret the UN assessment of demography as the only real verdict on Ukraine,” said the deputy director of the institute Oleksandr Khladun, according to whom the UN forecast is extremely gloomy. “From my point of view, the bleakest long-term forecast for Ukraine is a drop in population to 25 million,” he said.
The war and its end has a decisive influence on such predictions.