If 30,000 Ukrainian refugees stayed in Estonia, this could delay the decline in the Estonian population by more than 20 years. This is stated in the short report of the Development Monitoring Center " ee.

The Center has compiled demographic scenarios for about 10,000, 30,000 or 60,000 refugees in Estonia.

According to the expert of the Development Monitoring Center Magnus Piirits, Ukrainian refugees living in Estonia will rapidly increase the population, but in the future the population will begin to decline due to low birth rates and, according to the current long-term forecast, due to uncompensated immigration..

“In terms of the labor market, the ratio of older people to people of working age is an important indicator, which will improve significantly by 2050.

Refugees will feel good in Estonia in the long run, since a third of the refugees are children, and the level of adult education corresponds to the Estonian average,” Piirits is convinced.

As previously reported, the UN predicts that more than 8 million people may leave Ukraine..

Ukrainian refugees who receive free food and hygiene products in the Czech Republic may also be deprived of the right to receive a humanitarian subsidy in the amount of 5,000 CZK.