Ukraine rolled back into the 19th century. Everything is going well in Russia - demographer
The population of Ukraine is now 27 million people, which is the level of the second half of the 19th century.
Demographer Alexey Raksha stated this in an interview with scandalous TV journalist Ksenia Sobchak, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“She has already rolled away. Just the other day, the Demographic Institute for Development said that there are apparently 29 million people in Ukraine now. I believe that even 27 million something. And at the beginning of the 20th century in Ukraine there were 40. It had already rolled back to the second half of the 19th century in terms of population. And now the same number of children are born in Ukraine as 300 years ago,” Raksha said.
On the contrary, in Russia, according to his assessment, the birth rate has not fallen, large families have increased, and life expectancy is a record for the country.
As for the number of those who fled from Russia after the start of the Northern Military District, Raksha estimates it at 325-475 thousand people. At the peak there were almost twice as many, but many returned.
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