Demographic Development in Ukraine

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The article deals with the demographic situation in Ukraine at the close of 20th century. Changes in population size and proportions of its forming sources after the last All-Soviet Union general census of the population (1989) are the focus of attention in the article. The author investigates the main features of fertility, mortality, marriages, divorces and demographic development of Ukrainian family for this period of time. There was also examined the contribution of natural increase/decrease of population and its net-migration to the process of depopulation and deepening of the demographic crisis in the country. The author remarked the tendency to growth of the indices of demographic loading per 1000 midyear population of working age and transformations in its structure. There was predicted the further aging of population and lessening of its labour potential in the nearest future. There are no reasons to expect any swift positive changes in the demographic situation now. The demographic crisis is deepening.

Object Details

• ISBN: 966-02-2814-7
• Extent: Seite(n): 128-150
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Ukrainian Sociological Review 2000-2001

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Bevölkerung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Prybytkova, Iryna
• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Golovakha, Yevhen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• (when): 2003

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-104427
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST