From January to August 2017. living in Ukraine was reduced by 142 thousand people. These are the data of the State Statistics Service. Last year, during the same period, the population declined by 125 thousand people, so that the rate of extinction is growing before our eyes. For comparison: under the previous president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych (from January to August 2013. ) negative growth was 109 thousand people, while the statistics included the population of Donbass and the Crimea. Currently in the country on the territories controlled by Kiev, according to official information, live about 42 million people. However, many Ukrainian experts refuse to take this data seriously. In their opinion, in reality the population of Ukraine is a maximum of 32-35 million. Demographers predict that in the coming years the number of residents in the country will be reduced by another 5 to 5.5 million people, according to "Free Press".
Against this background, the share of ethnic Ukrainians. According to the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Gorshenin Institute, 92% of the residents of the territories controlled by Kiev consider themselves to be Ukrainians. In the western regions of the Ukraine, 98.3% of respondents named themselves 98.3% of respondents, 94.8% in the northern regions, 94.2% in the central regions, 87.5% in the central regions, 84.6% in the eastern regions,.
It is noteworthy that during the 2001 census. in a number of regions in the south and east of the country, most residents called themselves ethnic Russians, and 77% of Ukrainians regarded themselves as Ukrainians as a whole. Representatives of mixed families also got into this number, and the share of "monoethnic" Ukrainians by sociologists was estimated at 60%.
The sharp increase in the number of Ukrainians is explained not only by the departure of the Crimea and Donbas. Under the influence of the events of recent years, citizens are reconsidering their national self-identification. First, being Ukrainians is now "prestigious," and secondly, writing yourself into the Russians has become quite dangerous.
In addition, first of all people of the older generation die, many of whom called themselves Russians. Pensioners are considered the most unprotected stratum of the population, they receive from the state about $ 50 a month. The state additionally finishes them by reducing the number of medical institutions.
As a result of these processes, Russians as an ethnic group are gradually disappearing from the Ukrainian open spaces.
The demographic situation in the country as a whole is affected by the extreme poverty of Ukraine. Swiss Bank Credit Suisse in the annual Global Wealth Report - 2017 included it in the group of the world's poorest countries, along with Bangladesh and the countries of Equatorial Africa. In terms of GDP, Nezalezhnaya enters the second hundred countries of the world, its neighbors are rated by Swaziland, Bhutan, El Salvador and Iraq.