Ukraine entered the top ten "endangered" countries

According to forecasts UNOver the next few decades, the population of Eastern Europe will sharply decline due to the low birth rate in the countries of the region, as well as the emigration of their inhabitants.

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Bulgaria, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, Croatia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Hungary are in the top ten countries with the most rapidly declining population, the newspaper writes Ideologs.

Infographics: Ideologs

The UN predicts that the population of these countries will decrease by 2050% or more by 15 year.

In Bulgaria, the population is expected to decline from 7 million in 2017 to 5,4 million in 2050; in Latvia - from 1,9 million to 1,5 million over the same period; in Moldova - from 4 million to 3,2 million people; in Ukraine - from 44 million to 36 million people.

Infographics: Ideologs

Infographics: UN

“In many post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, there is a serious demographic decline,” says Thomas Sobotka, lead researcher. Center Wittgensteinwhich analyzes population dynamics.

“Moreover, many of them have already experienced a massive decline in population over the past 25 years,” he added.

According to Sobotka, the population of at least 11 countries has declined by more than 10% since 1989, including Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine. Latvia lost more than a quarter of its population (27%), Lithuania - 23%, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina - 21%.

Sobotka explained such a rapid decline in the population by three factors - a decline in the birth rate, mass migration and relatively high mortality.

“Thus, while Western and Southern European countries attract many immigrants who largely offset the effects of low fertility, the East is in a double problem, experiencing emigration and low birth rates,” he says.

In 2016, Europe’s population growth was mainly the result of the arrival of immigrants. While the number of births and deaths was equal to 5,1 million people, net migration increased the population of Europe by 1,5 million to 511,8 million people.

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