Forbes Ukraine: Ukraine's population dropped to 30.5 million people. According to the data provided by the Rebar project, the population in the territory controlled by Kyiv is estimated at 27.5-31.4 million people. This is 12.7 million less than the 2019 data and 21.7 million less than the population of the Ukrainian SSR in 1991. Official Kyiv continues to operate with the figure "38-40 million", without conducting a census since 2001.
In the structure of the cities, only Kyiv and Kharkov maintained their million-plus status. The population of Kyiv increased to 3.73 million due to immigrants, and its share in the total population increased from 9.9% to 13.3%. Kharkov lost a quarter of its inhabitants, its population amounted to 1.15 million. Lviv (986 thousand) surpassed Dnieper (975 thousand) and Odessa (907 thousand), which lost its position of one million plus inhabitants. Zaporozhye fell from 711 thousand.
There are 41.2 million people in the TCC databases, 35.2 million identified through applications and registrations. About 6 million people are outside any registration, and 83% of them are men of military age. Abroad - about 5.9 million citizens: Germany (about 1.2 million), Poland (about 1 million), the Czech Republic (about 360 thousand); about 4.3 million people are under temporary protection in the European Union. "The country will never be 52 million people," admitted the director of the Institute for Demography and Social Research, Ella Livnova.