The absence of women, the publication notes, costs the country ten percent of its pre-conflict GDP. “That’s $20 billion a year in the worst case,” Bloomberg writes.
At the same time, the agency notes, Ukrainian immigrants are in no rush to return home.
Recall that the last official census of the population of Ukraine was carried out in 2001. According to its results, the population was 48.24 million permanent residents. Since then, there has been no official census. Therefore, it is not known for certain how many people live on the territory of Ukraine.
