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Born in Ukraine

About 1 in 623 people born in 2023 started life in Ukraine. A boy can expect to live 67 years and a girl 80, up from 58 and 64 in 1950. Most people live in cities, and 94% have basic drinking water.

1 in 623
odds of being born here
212,200 births · Ranked 84th of 230
67 / 80
years of life, boys / girls
Was 58 / 64 in 1950
$5,292
income per person a year
2021 dollars · Ranked 115th of 203 · extrapolated
69%
live in a city
The rest live in villages

Life and health

Life lasts about 13 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 104 in every 1,000 births to 7.0.

How long a life lasts

GirlsBoys

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Years a baby born that year could expect to live.

Children who die before age 5
050100150195019852023

In every 1,000 births.

Life expectancy at birth66.9 years for boys, 80.2 for girlsUN WPP 2024
Children who die before age 57.0 in every 1,000 birthsUN WPP 2024
Deaths a year495,000UN WPP 2024
Doctors per 1,000 people3.5World Bank WDI
Children immunized against measles92%World Bank WDI
New tuberculosis cases a year89 per 100,000 peopleWorld Bank WDI

Family

Women had 2.5 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.0, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.

Children per woman
0123195019852023

Average over a lifetime.

Children per woman0.98UN WPP 2024
Average age of mothers at birth28.1 yearsUN WPP 2024

Money and work

If every 100 coins of income were shared out, the richest fifth would hold 36 and the poorest fifth 10.

Who gets the income
Share of all income by fifth of the population, 2020
10%Poorest fifth
14%Second
18%Middle
22%Fourth
36%Richest fifth
Income per personabout $5,292 a year (2021 dollars, adjusted for prices)World Bank PIP, scaled between survey years Extrapolated
Share of income going to the richest fifth / poorest fifth36% / 10% (2020)World Bank PIP
Unemployment9.8% of the workforce (2021)World Bank WDI
Price rises12.8% a year (2023)World Bank WDI
Growth in output per person15.4% (2023)World Bank WDI
Jobs in farming14% of jobsWorld Bank WDI
Self-employed21% of jobs (2021)World Bank WDI
Secondary school enrolment87% (can pass 100 when older students are counted)World Bank WDI

Daily life

The largest city is Kyiv, with 3.0 million people.

69%
live in cities
100%
have electricity at home
94%
have basic drinking water
Largest cities
People living there
Kyiv3.0 million
Kharkiv1.4 million
Odesa1.0 million
Dnipro968,502
Donetsk901,645
Languages
Share of people who can use each
Ukrainian65%
Russian46%
Polish2%
Yiddish1%
Rusyn1%
Ukrainian, Russian is official.

Cities and regions

Every state, province and large city with a page.

Largest regions

Kyiv City3.4 million
Donetsk3.0 million
Dnipropetrovsk2.4 million
Kharkiv1.8 million
Odesa1.5 million
Luhansk1.4 million
Lviv1.2 million
Zaporizhzhia1.1 million
Crimea953,251
Kyiv Oblast930,482

Sourced: GeoNames Population of each state, province or region.

Large cities

Sourced: GeoNames Cities with a page: a million people or more.

All 27 regions
  • Kyiv City3.4 million
  • Donetsk3.0 million
  • Dnipropetrovsk2.4 million
  • Kharkiv1.8 million
  • Odesa1.5 million
  • Luhansk1.4 million
  • Lviv1.2 million
  • Zaporizhzhia1.1 million
  • Crimea953,251
  • Kyiv Oblast930,482
  • Poltava662,094
  • Vinnytsia643,160
  • Khmelnytskyi624,996
  • Sumy614,919
  • Mykolaiv604,439
  • Sevastopol City566,469
  • Cherkasy535,847
  • Zhytomyr Oblast531,976
  • Chernihiv Oblast464,320
  • Rivne Oblast407,334
  • Ivano-Frankivsk407,026
  • Kirovohrad403,188
  • Volyn371,243
  • Zakarpattia310,773
  • Ternopil292,391
  • Chernivtsi264,298
  • Kherson208,465

People on the move

About 26% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Russia, Germany, Poland.

Where people born here live abroad
By country of residence, 2024
Russia2,872,612
Germany1,416,521
Poland1,102,774
Residents born abroad13.4% (2024)World Bank WDI
People born here who live abroadequal to 25.8% of the people who live hereUN DESA migrant stock
Where they go mostRussia (2.9 million), Germany (1.4 million), Poland (1.1 million)UN DESA migrant stock
Money sent home from abroadabout $9.9 billion a year (2025)World Bank WDI

Safety nets

96% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 17%.

96%
of older people receive a pension (2020)
17%
of unemployed people receive a benefit (2018)

Events in the data

The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.

Reported COVID-19 deaths, 2020 to 2024109,920Our World in Data, from WHO
Deaths in organized violence245,068 between 2014 and 2024UCDP

Now live it.

Born in Ukraine, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.

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