10:26, 05 января 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Baktygul OSMONALIEVA
Over the past 30 years, population of Kyrgyzstan has grown by 47.7 percent. The World Bank, which has studied the change in population in the post-Soviet space after the collapse of the Soviet Union, provided such data.
Uzbekistan has one of the highest population growth rates — 63.4 percent. The country takes the second place after Tajikistan with the population growth of 76.6 percent.
Other Central Asian countries also recorded a population growth. The figure reached 59.2 percent in Turkmenistan, in Kyrgyzstan — 47.7 percent and in Kazakhstan — 14 percent.
The population of Russia, on the contrary, decreased by 2.9 percent, as well as in Belarus — by 7.8 percent. Moldova lost 12 percent of its population, Estonia — 14.7 percent, Armenia — 15.5 percent, Ukraine — 20 percent, Georgia — 23.2 percent. Lithuania’s population decreased by 24.5 percent and Latvia’s — by 28.3 percent.
Before the collapse of the USSR, its population reached 288.14 million. The total population of all the countries now is 295.67 million. Thus, the population of the former Soviet Union grew by 7.53 million, or 2.6 percent for 30 years, although this figure was achieved thanks to the Central Asian countries only.