According to the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, only in the first week of the Russo-Ukrainian War, about a million Ukrainians left the country
As a result of this and other trends, Ukraine’s demographic future looks quite grim. As Ukrainian Minister of Social Policy Oksana Zholnovych said in a recent public forum in Kyiv, Ukraine’s current population could drop by as much as 10 million, down to 25.2 million, in 2050 according to recent projections