Odesa region ranked first in the South of Ukraine in terms of births and deaths in 2025

In 2025, Odesa region was ahead of Mykolaiv and Kherson regions in terms of both the number of newborns and deaths.

According to analysts of the Opendatabot platform, citing data from the Ministry of Justice, 11,956 people were born in Odesa region last year, and 31,267 died. In Mykolaiv region, 4,365 people were born and 16,000 died, and in Kherson region, 366 people were born and 4,367 died.

Odesa region ranked fifth in Ukraine by the number of births and sixth by the number of deaths.

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In total, 168,778 babies were born in Ukraine last year. However, as analysts have noted, after the crisis year of 2022, when the birth rate decreased by 25%, the decline is gradually slowing down: in 2024 it was 6%, in 2025 - 4.5%. At the same time, before the full-scale invasion began, the birth rate was declining by an average of 8% every year. However, compared to 2021, the difference remains significant - 1.6 times fewer children are born.

However, there are also regions that have made gains in the number of newborns. For example, in Lviv region, the birth rate increased by 1.5%, which is 230 more babies than in 2024. In Volyn region, the increase was 0.6%, or 44 children.

In addition to the areas of active hostilities, the largest decline in the birth rate is observed in the frontline regions. In Kherson region, the figure dropped by 16%, and in Zaporizhzhia region - by 11%. The number of births decreased by 9% in Dnipropetrovska, Sumska, Chernihivska, Kharkivska oblasts and Chernivetska oblast, which is far from the combat zone.

Traditionally, the largest number of babies was born in Kyiv - 19,410, or 11.5% of the total. At the same time, the capital lost only 1.5% compared to 2024. Lviv region is in second place with 15,872 babies, and Dnipropetrovs'k region is in third place: 12 thousand 754 children.

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Last year, there were 485,296 deaths in Ukraine, and the overall mortality rate in the country decreased by 2%. Currently, there are three deaths per newborn. The highest number of deaths was recorded in Dnipropetrovs'k region (52,559), Kyiv (36,296), and Kharkiv (34,670).

However, the dynamics are not the same everywhere. The number of deaths decreased in Poltava and Rivne regions: -4%. At the same time, the mortality rate increased in 6 regions, most notably in Kyiv, where the figure increased by 2%. Growth was also recorded in Chernivtsi (1.6%), Cherkasy (1%), Ivano-Frankivsk (0.9%), Ternopil (+0.6%), and Lviv (0.4%) regions.

Кирило Бойко