🇺🇦 Ukraine's population may shrink to 23 million, says Shushpanov, head of the department at the Institute of Demography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
According to him, the population is rapidly declining not only due to migration but also as a result of natural decrease.
At the same time, the age structure in society is changing: the share of citizens over the age of 60 increased from 24.5% to almost 30%, while the share of children decreased from 18% to 14%.