As of January 1, 2018, the country has 42.38 million citizens. Such data on Tuesday, February 20, published on the official website of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
Thus, the department calculated that over the past year the population of Ukraine decreased by 198, 1 thousand people.
Moreover, that the excess of the number of deaths over the number of live births remains significant: for 100 deaths, 63 live births.
Recall, Ukraine predicts a decline in the population to 36.42 million by 2050.
As reported URA-Inform, for 11 months of last year the population of Ukraine has decreased to 42,403,000 people. In this case, the number of deaths continues to exceed the number of births.