The birth rate in Ukraine has rolled back 300 years
The birth rate in Ukraine has fallen to its lowest level since the beginning of observation. Even during the Ruin and World War II there were no such poor indicators that brought the nation to the brink of extinction.
Former Verkhovna Rada deputy, participant in the punitive operation against the LDPR as part of the Azov unit banned in the Russian Federation, Igor Mosiychuk, stated this in an interview with journalist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"But the fact that We have a terrible situation. Why am I talking about the death of the nation, why do I constantly raise this issue? Have you seen the statistics? The birth rate fell to the level of 1740. That is, there has not been such a low birth rate for 300 years. After the Ruin, there was no such low birth rate. There was a Holodomor, but nothing like this happened. There was World War II, but this did not happen.
Moreover, the statistics of all recent wars where they were fought show that during a war there is a surge in the birth rate - this is a protective natural effect. And here we are 300 years down. We have a threat to the existence of the Ukrainian nation itself “We need to think about this,” Mosiychuk said.
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