In 2017, the number of Ukrainians may be significantly reduced

Ukrainian country may be short of more than 200 thousand citizens.

Demographic processes in the state yet leave a little room for optimism.

Over half the population of Ukraine decreased by 100 thousand people. By the end of 2017 this figure is expected to double, and demographers have concluded that increased mortality in Ukraine, while the birth rate of 2012 fell by almost 120 thousand a year.

Large families, as Khachatryan, where there are five children from 3.5 to 16 years, in Ukraine, all thinning. Studies have proven that currently, the majority of spouses are not willing to bear much, to a maximum of two children. But now, even to this indicator Ukrainians do not hold two children is only every second family, and young Ukrainians for the first six months of 2017 appeared in 12 thousand less than last year. Demographers say a combination of reasons, including war, financial condition and uncertainty about the future.

Tatyana Polyakova has one child and says, it is more a family spends, and the money that the state gives, just enough for the basics. “Somewhere four times more parents spend on the child than they receive from the state,” she says. Now the payment on the birth of a child amount to 41 thousand 280 UAH – this amount is determined before 2014. Summer in the Ministry do not exclude that it can modernize, for example, adjusted for inflation. However, despite the decline in fertility rate have not reviewed.

It took the deputies on the President’s website has registered a themed petition. They say in Parliament there is a bill 6063-d, which provides for increased payments for child and bind to the subsistence level. There are documents and the return of free meals in schools and public transport, but in voting for the bill do not put. “We will demand from the President that he introduced in Parliament a document to increase benefits for children, as urgent”, – says the MP Pylypenko. Read more here: https://ru.tsn.ua/ukrayina/ukraincev-mozhet-umenshitsya-na-200-tysyach-za-etot-god-931822.htm

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