The Demographic Sustainability of Ukraine: The Historical Retrospective and the Current Challenges

• Authors: Roman Tesliuk

Abstracts

EN

This paper addresses the changes in the demographic development of Ukraine in the last 125 years in quantitative parameters of demographic sustainability: alterations in population size, its gender and age structure, and natural and migration movement. Demographic sustainability is considered to be the capacity of a country’s or a region’s demography to preserve a consistent population size with optimal proportions between its age categories. Eight historical-demographic stages related to specific military-political and socio-economic events are outlined and analysed. Demographic catastrophes and crises in Ukraine were directly related to the aggression of totalitarian regimes. They occurred at the initial stages of demographic transition, so Ukraine was capable of restoring the population size, albeit with deeply disturbed demographic structures. The large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine increases the risk of the occurrence of a modern demographic catastrophe. Nowadays, the demographic sustainability of Ukraine cannot be achieved autonomously without the positive impact of external factors – the respective governmental demographic and socio-economic policies.

Keywords

EN

demographic sustainability; Ukraine; gender-age structure of the population; natural population movement; migration; demographic catastrophe

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 92
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 35-49

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Roman Tesliuk

• National Museum of Holodomor Genocide, Holodomor Research Institute, Department of the Holodomor Genocide Socio-Demographic and Legal Aspects Research; Lavrska St., 3, Kyiv 01015, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000345621663

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499529203

Biblioteka Nauki

8760744