Ukraine's population, not including temporarily occupied Crimea, has dropped 42,973,696 people as of Oct. 1, 2014, with the resident population standing at 42,804,059 people, according to a report on the demographic situation issued by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
The overall population growth rate in January through September 2014 was negative, it decreased by 99,424 people. In addition, a larger negative natural increase rate was compensated by a small positive migration increase rate.
In particular, 355,120 babies were born and 473,199 people died (including 2,773 under the age of one year) in Ukraine in the first nine months of 2014. This resulted in a negative natural increase rate of 118,079 people. However, 410,631 people came to Ukraine and 391,976 left the country, which resulted in a positive migration increase rate of 18,655 people.
Within a year, from October 1, 2013 to Oct. 1, 2014, Ukraine’s population dropped by 129,410 people.
According to the State Statistics Service, the population decline rate in the first nine months of 2014 is still lower than in 2013, 2010 or 2011. It only exceeds the respective result in 2012. The situation with the migration increase rate is the same in these years, while the natural increase rate is lower in 2014 than in 2012-2013 but higher than in 2010-2011.
Both absolute and relative death rate among infants in 2014 is the lowest in the last five years.
The crude birth rate in 2014 (11 per 1,000 people) is higher than in the last five years, except for 2012, when it was 11.3. At the same time, the crude death rate (14.7) is also higher than in the last five years, except for 2010 (15.3). The net migration rate (5.8) is much higher than in previous years, except for 2012, when it reached 8.
The State Statistics Service noted that the data in the 2014 report might be specified in future.
