The theme of leaving Ukraine temporarily or for good comes up regularly in conversations that Ukrainians are having online.
Global Voices: Why Ukrainians are moving abroad
According to a report published by the International Organization for Migration, 6.5 million of Ukrainians, or 14.4 percent of Ukraine's population, are emigrants. The country's population shrinks by hundreds of thousands each year.
According to Migration in Ukraine: Facts and Figures, a report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Sept. 2011, 6.5 million of Ukrainians, or 14.4 percent of the population, are emigrants. Among the most popular emigration destinations are Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Ukraine's population of approximately 45.5 million people “is shrinking by 330,000 per year,” says the IOM report, and emigration, no doubt, contributes to this downward demographic trend.
