In Crimea, a significant reduction in the number of residents in the age groups from 15 to 30 years. This is evidenced by the data published on the website of "Krymstat".

So, according to statistics, relating to the first group in 2013 in the county counted more than 91 thousand. In 2014, the so-called population census recorded 9 thousand people (which is almost 10%) less. Now under this age category there are a little more than 80 thousand people, note the Crimea. Realities.

A group of people aged 20-24 years is declining even more rapidly. In 2013, there were 136.5 thousand such people in the Crimea. In 2014 counted less than 111 thousand. As of the end of 2016, the number of Crimean residents between the ages of 20 and 24 was reduced to 102 thousand people.

The group aged 25-29 years also declined significantly in 2014, but now the rate of decline has somewhat decreased, but the trend remains. In 2013 in Crimea people of this age numbered 173 thousand, in 2014 - 155. Now - about 150.

As reported on the air of Radio Crimea. Realities director of the Russian Center for Labor Studies Higher School of Economics Vladimir Gimpelson, Crimean youth will leave the annexed peninsula until in other regions of Ukraine or neighboring Russia for them there will be more prospects.

"They will strive to go to places where opportunities for education are better, and opportunities to find more paid work above. This means traveling to cities with over a million people, where there are many more opportunities, "he said..

According to a survey of local media, in Sevastopol, more than half of high school students and students are going to permanently leave the city. At the same time, 66% of those who do not want to stay, intend to leave not for Ukraine or Russia, but for Europe.