Demographics of Ukraine

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Demographics of Ukraine
Ukraine's population pyramid, 2024
Population	Including Russian occupied territory: 41,130,432 (State Statistics Service of Ukraine)[1] Excluding Russian occupied territory: 36,744,636 (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs)[2] 33,443,000 estimate in 2024 (International Monetary Fund[3])
Growth rate	−6.6 people/1,000 population (2023)
Birth rate	8.6 births/1,000 population (2023)
Death rate	15.2 deaths/1,000 population (2023)
Life expectancy	71.76 years (2018)[4]
• male	66.69 years
• female	76.72 years
Fertility rate	1.26 children born/woman (2022)
Infant mortality rate	7.0 deaths/1,000 infants (2019)[4]
Net migration rate	−5.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015)
Age structure
0–14 years	15.4%
15–64 years	68.4%
65 and over	16.2% (2017)
Sex ratio
At birth	1.06 male(s)/female
Under 15	1.06 male(s)/female
15–64 years	0.92 male(s)/female
65 and over	0.51 male(s)/female
Nationality
Nationality	noun: Ukrainian(s) adjective: Ukrainian
Major ethnic	Ukrainians (77.8%) 2001
Minor ethnic	Russians (17.3%) 2001, Other (4.9%) 2001
Language
Official	Ukrainian
Spoken	Ukrainian, Russian, others

According to the United Nations, Ukraine has a population of 37.9 million as of 2024.^[5]

In July 2023, Reuters reported that due to refugee outflows, the population of Ukrainian-controlled areas may have decreased to 28 million,^[6] a steep decline from Ukraine's 2020 population of almost 42 million.^[7][8]

This drop is in large part due to the ongoing Ukrainian refugee crisis and loss of territory caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The most recent (and only) census of post-Soviet Ukraine occurred in 2001, and much of the information presented is potentially inaccurate or outdated.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2021, the Ukrainian fertility rate has fallen below 1.3, and is now one of the lowest in the world.^[9]