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Ukraine faces ongoing discussions about supporting the birth rate, which has long been insufficient for stable demographic growth. In times of war, the problem is only getting worse, Oleksandr Hladun, deputy director of the Institute for Demography and Life Quality Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, told RBC-Ukraine. The population of Ukraine has declined significantly over the past 30 years, in particular, due to natural decline and migration processes, demographers say. While at the beginning of 1993, 52.2 million people lived in Ukraine, by 2022 the number had decrease…