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Ukraine

38,980,376

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.12M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-21.3%from 49.56M
Life expectancy74.7 years2024
Fertility rate0.99births per woman · 2024
Urban population69.6%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Ukraine is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1413.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6467.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+19.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate5.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate13.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-8.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+1.7Mnet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Ukraine look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 31.99M in 2050—15.5% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202437.86M
  2. 205031.99M
  3. 210015.2M
Median age in 205051.1years
Births in 2050188.3Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050536.12Kduring the year
Life expectancy78.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196042.82M
  2. 197047.26M
  3. 198049.96M
  4. 199052.05M
  5. 200049.56M
  6. 201046.46M
  7. 202044.68M
  8. 202538.98M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/21/2026

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