Over the years of independence, Ukraine has lost 40% of its population, and its GDP is steadily falling

It is not clear what medical statistics the author of the plot refers to. The system of compulsory health insurance, in which all residents of the country must be registered, does not exist in Ukraine, there are only plans for its introduction. According to the statistics of visits to doctors, it is impossible to judge the size of the population, since not every person, especially if he feels healthy, goes to the doctor.

According to the WHO yearbook “World Health Statistics”, the population of Ukraine in 2020 was 43,994,000 people. That is, since 1989, of course, it has decreased, but not by 40%, as Vesti Nedeli claims, but only by 15%. It should be remembered that since 2015, statistics have not taken into account residents of the annexed Crimea and non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where about 2.5 million people live. We add that the head of Vesti Nedeli Dmitry Kiselev, who actively supported the Russian military invasion of Ukraine in 2014, had a hand in the loss of this population by Ukraine.

The graph of Ukraine’s GDP in dollar terms is actually looks like like this.