LONDON, March 21. The population of Ukraine is projected to decline to 20 million people by 2025, down from over 40 million in 2014, according to Will Lloyd, a reporter for the British magazine The New Statesman.

"A British official told me that the population of Ukraine, estimated at just over 40 million in 2014, is projected to decrease to just over 20 million by 2025, which is significantly lower than most publicly available estimates," he wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) page.

Lloyd also noted that he visited Ukraine for the first time in 2024 and has since witnessed a waning European interest in the conflict in Ukraine, with attention shifting to the Gaza Strip, Greenland, Venezuela, and Iran.

"The world was in chaos, advanced air defense platforms were running out of expensive ammunition, and it was needed everywhere from Kyiv to Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi. Ukraine was no longer a headline story," he emphasized. Ukraine has been grappling with serious demographic problems since gaining independence in 1991. The last census in Ukraine was conducted in 2001, when the country had a population of 48,457,000.

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