Ukraine
Україна
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Did you know
Kyiv's Arsenalna metro station lies 105.5 m underground and is considered the deepest in the world. (source)
Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 19%
- people aged 65 or older
- 7.4M
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 29.1%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 19.7 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 29.5%
- women 37.1%, men 15.6%
- of people 65+ live in collective quarters: care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like
- 0.3%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2012; UN, 2001 census
Languages
27 languages, 14 of them endangered
- KaraimCritically endangered
- KrymchakCritically endangered
- ErzyaDefinitely endangered
- UrumDefinitely endangered
- BashkirVulnerable
- BelarusianVulnerable
- Crimean TatarVulnerable
- DargwaVulnerable
- GagauzVulnerable
- LakVulnerable
- LezgianVulnerable
- RusynVulnerable
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- SlovakVulnerable
- UkrainianVulnerable
- Balkan Romani
- Bulgarian
- Carpathian Romani
- Eastern Yiddish
- Hungarian
- Modern Greek
- Polish
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbisk
- Tatar
- Ukrainian Sign Language
- Vlax Romani
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
UNESCO intangible heritage
- Pysanka, Ukrainian tradition and art of decorating eggs2024
- Safeguarding programme of kobza and wheel lyre tradition2024
- Culture of Ukrainian borscht cooking2022
- Ornek, a Crimean Tatar ornament and knowledge about it2021
- Tradition of Kosiv painted ceramics2019
- Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region2016
- Petrykivka decorative painting as a phenomenon of the Ukrainian ornamental folk art2013
List and years: ich.unesco.org
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