Premature births are climbing in Ukraine’s front-line regions, and doctors blame the ongoing war
Doctors in Zaporizhzhia now deliver babies and treat miscarriages on the same afternoons that glide bombs hit the city, AP reports.
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Deaths exceeded births nearly threefold in 2024, Ministry of Justice reports
Ukraine's birth rate declined by 5.8% in 2024, dropping from 187,300 in 2023 to 176,600 newborns.
Ukraine faces deepening demographic crisis as deaths outpace births 3 to 1
Ukraine's birth rate plummeted since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, with Opendatabot reporting a decrease from 132,595 newborns in the first half of 2021 to just 87,655 in the same period of 2024.