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This year the mortality rate in Ukraine is three times higher than the birth rate - Opendatabot
Kyiv • UNN
In the first half of 2024, 87,655 children were born in Ukraine, which is 9% less than last year. For every newborn, there are three deaths, indicating a deep demographic crisis.
In the first half of 2024, 87,655 children were born in Ukraine, down 9% from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Justice. Most newborns and deaths were registered in Dnipropetrovska oblast and the city of Kyiv.
Writes UNN with a link to the Opendatabot data.
Details
This year, the birth rate in Ukraine has decreased by 1.5 times compared to 2021, before the full-scale invasion: from 132,595 to 87,655 newborns. Most children were born in Kyiv (9,695), Lviv (7,923), and Dnipro (6,962), while the figures remain low in the frontline Kherson (221), Donetsk (702), and Luhansk (702) regions, where no births were registered.For every newborn, there are now three deaths, indicating a deep demographic crisis.
In comparison, in 2018-2020, there were two deaths per child. Mortality has also decreased: 250,972 people died in the first half of 2024, which is 1.4 times less than in 2021, when the figure was higher due to the COVID-19 pandemic (349,041 deaths).
The lowest number of deaths was recorded in Chernivtsi (5,422), Kherson (2,334) and Donetsk (5,753) regions, and the highest number in Dnipropetrovs'k (26,374), Kharkiv (17,999) and Kyiv (17,449).
Recall
The Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Oksana Zholnovych reportedthat last year was extremely disturbing because the growth rate of Ukrainians was 0.9. This is an extremely low rate. In total, there are about 35 million Ukrainians, which is 20 million less than in 1991.
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