Editing Demographics of Ukraine (section)

=== Recent Migration Trends and Economic Impact ===

Since about '''2015''', a growing number of Ukrainians have worked in the '''European Union''', particularly in '''Poland'''. According to '''Eurostat''', '''662,000 Ukrainians''' received EU residence permits in '''2017''', with '''585,439''' of these residing in '''Poland'''.  

'''World Bank''' statistics from '''2019''' revealed that remittances sent back to Ukraine had approximately doubled from '''2015 to 2018''', making up about '''4% of Ukraine's GDP'''.<ref name=bl-20190220>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-20/eastern-europe-feeds-on-a-shrinking-ukraine |title=Eastern Europe Feeds on a Shrinking Ukraine |last=Bershidsky |first=Leonid |publisher=Bloomberg |date=20 February 2019 |access-date=24 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=wilsoncenter-20190514>{{cite web |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/losing-brains-and-brawn-outmigration-ukraine-0 |title=Losing Brains and Brawn: Outmigration from Ukraine |last=Kiryukhin |first=Denys |publisher=Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |date=14 May 2019 |access-date=24 June 2019}}</ref>

Ukraine records only citizens who apply for '''foreign citizenship''', not those who seek '''foreign residency'''.<ref name=voxukraine-20180620>{{cite news |url=https://voxukraine.org/en/the-great-migration-no-one-in-ukraine-knows-how-many-of-our-compatriots-have-moved-abroad/ |title=The Great Migration: No One in Ukraine Knows How Many of Our Compatriots Have Moved Abroad |last=Tyshchuk |first=Tetyana |website=vox ukraine |date=20 June 2018 |access-date=24 June 2019}}</ref>