Ukraine's population down 10 million since Russia first invaded, U.N. says

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Geneva — Ukraine's organization has declined by astir 8 cardinal since Russia invaded successful February 2022, sparking an exodus and sending commencement rates plunging, nan United Nations said Tuesday. The U.N. Population Fund said location had not been a census, but that location intelligibly had been a melodramatic organization diminution successful war-torn Ukraine.

"Overall, Ukraine's organization has declined by an estimated 10 cardinal since 2014 and by an estimated 8 cardinal since nan opening of nan full-scale penetration successful 2022," UNFPA's location head for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Florence Bauer said successful comments sent to journalists.

Ukraine's organization stood astatine astir 45 cardinal successful 2014, erstwhile Russia first invaded, occupying and annexing Crimea, nan agency said, citing information from nan nationalist statistic office.

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By February 2022, erstwhile Russia launched its full-scale penetration of Ukraine, nan organization had dwindled to 43 million, and it has plummeted further to conscionable 35 cardinal today, it said, citing a operation of authorities and UNFPA data.

Speaking to journalists successful Geneva, Bauer said nan melodramatic diminution was owed to "a operation of factors".

Already earlier nan war, Ukraine had 1 of nan lowest commencement rates successful Europe, and for illustration galore countries successful Eastern Europe, it had seen galore young group time off successful hunt of much opportunities abroad, she said.

But successful nan 2 and a half years since nan full-scale invasion, immoderate 6.7 cardinal group person fled nan state arsenic refugees while nan commencement complaint has fallen to conscionable astir 1 kid per woman, she said.

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"That's 1 of nan lowest successful nan world," she said, stressing that this was good beneath nan theoretical replacement complaint of 2.1 children that each female connected mean must person to support nan organization size.

At nan aforesaid time, Bauer said, location are nan "several tens of thousands of casualties (from nan war), which of people adhd to nan equation."

Neither Ukraine nor Russia person released casualty figures since Russia launched its full-scale penetration successful 2022, but U.S. officials estimated successful August 2023 that astatine slightest 70,000 Ukrainian work members had been killed. Since past Russia has made incremental gains on nan immense beforehand statement stretching correct crossed nan eastbound of nan country.