Poverty in Ukraine

Poverty in Ukraine spiked after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and then substantially declined, before flattening in the twenty-first century.

[1] In 2003, expectations of a poor grain harvest, led prices for staple food products to jump in the late spring.

The study defines poverty as income below the minimum subsistence level, which varied between an average of ₴3,237 and ₴3,636 ($115–130) per person in 2019.

The results reflect May findings by the Ministry of Social Policy, which estimated that the poverty rate had increased to 45% in 2020.

[6] The start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered a major humanitarian crisis in Ukraine: according to the United Nations Development Programme, a prolonged conflict will cause 30% of the Ukrainian population to fall below the poverty line, while a further 62% would be at risk of also falling into poverty within a year.

According to the United Nations Children's Fund, childbirth benefits in Ukraine decreased the poverty rate among its beneficiaries from 66.4% to 59.9%.

[10] The analysis of poverty was conducted using the household survey data for 2001 provided by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.