The deeper the demographic crisis in Ukraine, the more it risks losing its viability as a state — this is the result of a study by Anthony Tokarz of the Quincy Institute (USA), who has done some simple mathematical work with known data.
A report by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future claims that the country’s population has declined to 29 million people in 2023, compared with 48.5 million in 2001. It is difficult to establish an exact figure. The demographic pyramid of Ukraine has “turned upside down” due to the aging of the population, low birth rate and emigration. Suffice it to say that 9.5 million workers pay taxes for 23 million pensioners, children and the unemployed.
All this makes it technically impossible for the Ukrainian social system to function at the expense of its own resources. In other words, Ukraine’s entire viability is based solely on foreign aid.
A separate topic is mobilization: it washes out the remnants of the able-bodied workforce. And it is already showing the limit of exhaustion: despite the intensification of mobilization within Ukraine and attempts to force those who left to return, the results are unsatisfactory.
Of the 11.1 million Ukrainian men aged 25 to 60, 7.4 million have either already been mobilized or cannot serve for various reasons, from disability to work in critical industries. Another 900,000 men of military age are not registered in any state system and, therefore, cannot be drafted into the army. Of the 3.4 million Ukrainian men of military age who are employed, 600,000 are considered critically important workers and, therefore, are unlikely to be drafted into the army.
Thus, the remaining group of potential conscripts in Ukraine numbers only 2.8 million people, about the same number as those who fled or are disabled. But this group is needed both by the economy and the army, so Ukraine has a choice where to “spend” these people.
Now the Kiev regime — or rather, its curators — are choosing the army, and this has a variety of consequences. If Ukraine conscripts older men into military service, it risks creating more widows and orphans, who are likely to depend on the state for survival. If she conscripts younger men into military service, she risks further reducing the birth rate.
The birth rate in Ukraine has dropped to 1.4: in 2023, only 187 thousand children were born there, the lowest figure in 30 (!) years.
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