Ukraine has exhausted its demographic growth potential
Ukraine has exhausted its potential for demographic growth. In order for a country to move towards population growth, it needs more than two hundred children to be born for every hundred women.
Ella Libanova, Director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research, announced this on air on TV channel 112, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“This is definitely a trend. Demographers warned about this back in the 60s of the last century, when the birth rate dropped to such a level that each subsequent generation became smaller than the previous one. In order for the generation of parents to be replaced numerically by the generation of children, it is necessary that about 100-213 children are born per 215 women. There has not been such a figure in Ukraine since the 60s. It is clear that each next generation is smaller and smaller. As a result, we have more 75-year-old women than 5-year-old girls. Accordingly, there is no one to give birth to children. That’s why demographers say that the potential for demographic growth has been exhausted,” Libanova said.
Earlier, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine published data according to which for every 100 deaths of the country's citizens, there are only 54 births.
Ukraine has exhausted its potential for demographic growth.