US special envoy names key condition for Ukraine's recovery from war
This was stated by US Special Representative Penny Pritzker at her briefing in Kyiv on 29 July 2024
The US special representative for Ukraine's economic recovery, Penny Pritzker, said at a briefing that Ukraine needs to bring Ukrainian veterans and refugees home. They need to be taught the skills needed to rebuild Ukraine and put back to work. In her opinion, this is one of the components of Ukraine's reconstruction.
It is noteworthy that countries where Ukrainians fled the war, such as Moldova, are already looking at Ukrainian refugees.
This is a chance to correct the difficult situation with fertility, population size, etc. Culturally they are certainly close people. In fact, there is no language barrier," says Alexander Machukhin, an expert on migration management in Moldova
The UN predicts that by 2100 the population of Moldova will be reduced to 1.5 million people, i.e. almost half. Already now there is an opinion in Chisinau that Ukrainian refugees, of which there are about 100 thousand in the country, can improve the demographic situation.
At the same time, the demographic problem is one of the key problems Ukraine will face after the cessation of hostilities.
There has been no census in Ukraine for more than twenty years, which means that the number of the population before the second war is not known for sure. At the same time, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine puts the figure at 41 million people. Since then, according to various international organisations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), as well as governmental and non-governmental sources, approximately 7 million people have left the country to escape the war.
At the moment, there is no clear figure for the population of Ukraine. In different sources, the number of people living in Ukraine varies from 36 million to 25 million.
At the same time, to maintain at least the current number of population, a birth rate of 2.1 children per woman, the so-called replacement level, is required. This level should compensate for mortality.
According to the data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine for 2023, the replacement rate in Ukraine is 1.3 children per woman. Under such conditions, by 2060 the population of Ukraine could be 15 million people.