Ukraine's Death Last Year, Three Times Births...35.5% less born than before the war
Feb 06, 2025
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Citing government statistics, local media Kyiv Independent reported that Ukraine's death toll stood at 495,090 in 2024 and 176,679 births.
However, these statistics are compiled only in the territory currently controlled by Ukraine.
Figures for the partially occupied provinces of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are likely to be erroneous and do not include data from Russian-occupied Luhansk and Crimea.
The highest death rate was in Dnipropetrovsk, which is fiercely fighting with Russian forces, killing 53,268 people.
About 35,000 people were killed in the northeastern Kharkiv space, which borders the capital Kyiv and Russia.
There were 176,679 newborns born in Ukraine in 2024, down 97,093 (35.5%) from 2021 before the Russian invasion.
Kyiv has the highest number of births, followed by 15,642 in the western Libby universe and 14,029 in the densely populated Dnipropetrousk province.
Kherson Province, which is in fierce battle with Russian forces, had the lowest number of births last year, with 434 people born.
Ukraine's population peaked at more than 50 million in the early 1990s before declining to around 37 million in January 2024. The United Nations also predicted that Ukraine's population could fall to 15.3 million by 2100.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
