In the first half of 2024, 87,655 children were born in Ukraine, which is 9% less than in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Justice. At the same time, 250,972 deaths were recorded. The largest number of babies and deaths in Ukraine were in Dnipropetrovs’k and Kyiv regions.
The birth rate decreased by 1.5 times this year compared to the period before the full-scale invasion: 87,655 children compared to 132,595 in 2021.
The highest number of newborns was registered in Kyiv – 9,695 children, 7,923 in Lviv region, and 6,962 in Dnipro region. The number of babies born in the frontline regions is consistently low: in Kherson (221) and Donetsk (702). In the Luhansk region, no babies were registered in the last six months.
Currently, there are three deaths for every newborn citizen. This ratio is one of the key indicators of the demographic crisis. For comparison, in the pre-civil war period, there were two deaths per child in 2018-2020.
250,972 people died in Ukraine in the first six months of 2024. This is 1.4 times less than in the same period in 2021, when 349,041 deaths were recorded. However, it is worth noting that 2021 was the peak year for deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lowest number of deaths occurred in the frontline Kherson (2334) and Donetsk (5753) regions and in Chernivtsi (5422). Anti-record numbers were set in Dnipropetrovs’k region (26,374), Kharkiv region (17,999), and Kyiv (17,449).
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Average price per hectare of land in 2023, UAH
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Turkey has ratified a free trade agreement with Ukraine, Anadolu quoted the country’s official newspaper as saying on Friday.
The agreement was signed on Feb. 3, 2022, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved the deal and its annexes on Thursday.
Turkey-Ukraine bilateral trade volume in 2023 totaled $7.3 billion, Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said Thursday after meeting with Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko.
According to him, the trade volume is expected to increase to $10 billion within a short period of time under the said agreement.
The main areas of trade between the two countries are ferrous metallurgy, machine building, energy, automobile and grain.
PJSC “Grave Ukraine Life Insurance” (Kiev) has increased its authorized capital from UAH 26.903 million to UAH 81.571 million, the company was notified by the Central Depository of Ukraine on July 31, according to the information posted in the system of NCSSM.
The increase of the authorized capital by UAH 54.668 mln was made at the expense of a part of the profit received by the company.
The decision on the issue was made at the shareholders’ meeting on April 15, 2024.
PJSC Grave Ukraine Life Insurance and PJSC IC Grave Ukraine are part of NFG Grave Ukraine, the ultimate beneficiary of which is GRAWE-Vermögensverwaltung (Austria).
On August 1, the state enterprise “International Airport “Boryspil” (Kiev) announced a tender for the purchase of voluntary insurance of motor vehicles (hull insurance), according to the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro.
The expected cost of purchase of services is UAH 44.6 thousand. Security of the tender offer is not required.
The deadline for submission of bids is August 9.
Change in prices of food raw materials from Ukraine (forecast up to 2025), %
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