Editing Demographics of Ukraine (section)

==Migration==
[[File:MigrationGrowth2012ua.PNG|thumb|upright 1.2|Migration growth rate per 1,000 people, 2012]]

===Emigration===
Ukraine is the major source of [[Immigration|migrants]] for many [[member states of the European Union|EU member states]]. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Ukraine's sputtering economy and political instability contributed to rising [[emigration]], especially to nearby [[Poland]] and [[Hungary]], but also to other countries such as [[Italy]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Israel]] and [[Canada]]. Although estimates vary, approximately two to three million Ukrainian citizens were working abroad, in construction, service, housekeeping, and agriculture industries.

Between 1991 and 2004, the government counted 2,537,400 individuals who emigrated; 1,897,500 moved to other post-Soviet states, and 639,900 moved to other, mainly Western, states.<ref>By Olena Malynovska, National Institute for International Security Problems, Kyiv [http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=365 Caught Between East and West, Ukraine Struggles with Its Migration Policy]</ref>

By the early 2000s, Ukrainian embassies reported that 300,000 Ukrainian citizens were working in Poland, 200,000 in Italy, approximately 200,000 in the [[Czech Republic]], 150,000 in Portugal, 100,000 in Spain, 35,000 in Turkey, 20,000 in the [[United States]] and smaller but significant numbers in [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Greece]], [[Sweden]], [[Switzerland]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. The largest number of Ukrainian workers abroad, about one million, were in [[Russia]]. Since 1992, 232,072 persons born in Ukraine have emigrated to the United States.

Yet absolute numbers are less relevant to the economic impact on host countries than the volume of immigration as a proportion of the native population. Italy had the highest rate of Ukrainian emigrants as a proportion of the native population, while the far more populous Russia had the largest absolute confirmed number of Ukrainian emigrants (excluding Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic, for which there was conflicting data).

===Immigration===
Between 1991 and 2003, about 100,000 illegal immigrants were detained at the western borders of Ukraine.<ref name="mp"/> As of 2005, about 5,000 illegal immigrants were being detained yearly, mostly from [[China]], [[India]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]].<ref name="mp">{{cite web|title=Caught Between East and West, Ukraine Struggles with Its Migration Policy|date=January 2006 |publisher=Migration Policy Institute|url=https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/caught-between-east-and-west-ukraine-struggles-its-migration-policy}}</ref> At the time, about 3,000 officially registered refugees resided in Ukraine, of whom most were [[Afghans]].<ref name="mp"/>

Ukraine accepted some 62,000 refugees from [[Transnistria]] following its [[Transnistria War|war]] in 1992.<ref name="mp"/> That same decade, thousands more were also accepted from other post-Soviet conflict zones in [[Abkhazia]], [[Chechnya]] and [[Tajikistan]].<ref name="mp"/>

Between the 1989 Soviet census and the 2001 census, an increased number of former [[Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]] residents moved to Ukraine from war zones. The number of [[Armenians]] in Ukraine almost doubled to 99,900 people during this period, while the number of [[Georgians]] and [[Azerbaijanis]] also increased substantially.<ref name="mp"/>

As of April 2020, 1.4 million Ukrainians were [[internally displaced]] due to the [[war in Donbas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/national-monitoring-system-report-situation-internally-displaced-persons-march-2020 |title=National Monitoring System Report on the Situation of Internally Displaced Persons – March 2020 – Ukraine &#124; ReliefWeb |publisher=Reliefweb.int |date= 21 January 2021|access-date=2022-03-14}}</ref>