Social Problems in Ukraine

Suicide

According to the World Health Organization every year in the world of decide to die from 1 to 4 million people.
Every 40 seconds someone in the world is trying to commit suicide.
Ukraine has one of the leading places in Europe by number of suicides.
According to the latest data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the average annual rate suicides is 22-25 suicides per 100000 people.
Every year according to the official data of State Statistics kill themselves almost 12 thousand Ukrainians.

According to the State Statistics Service, death by suicide is one of the leading places in Ukraine after the natural death and death from external causes (accidents, illness, accidents, and so on).

Terrible Figures of Child Suicides

Nearly 85% of teenagers at least once in life thought about suicide.
The peak of suicides accounted for late teens - 14-16 years.
In 80% of cases, the cause of child suicide - relationships with relatives.
According to statistics, in Ukraine takes place in the year of children's 34.5 suicides per 100 thousand, in the world young people aged 15-19 make 10 suicides per 100 thousand population, and, according to the World Health Organization, the indicator 20 is critical.

Boys commit suicide 4-5 times more often girls, but girls, in turn, try to commit a suicide three times more than boys.
70% of suicides are committed by mentally healthy children.
80% of child suicides is poisoning.
Among children, 60% of those, who commit suicide are the children from the "normal" full families.
Children resort to suicide due to family reasons in 46.9% of cases due to conflicts with peers and relatives - in 13.6% of cases.

Children's Labour

June 12 is the World Day Against Child Labour.
Currently, about 215 million children are forced to work to survive, and more than half of them are victims of the worst forms of child labor.
About 5 million children are victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
Most severely child labor is used in the east of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where the main income of the population is the coal industry.

Abortion

Ukraine has the biggest number of abortions as to compare with any EU country.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine registered a bill banning abortions for women voluntarily.
The document proposes to allow abortions only for medical and social reasons.

Ukraine's Femen storms cathedral in abortion protes

Disability
An International Labour Organization report found that unemployment rates for the disabled rose sharply in Eastern Europe in the 1990s due to recession and economic restructuring.
Discrimination is a problem.
In the Soviet era, disabled people were kept in institutions.

The few disabled people who do manage to get a job work hard to prove themselves.
Many people with disability, think that they must sit in the flat, close the door.

According to the Ministry of Statistics of the country, we have two million two hundred thousand people with disabilities.
Of them:
1 group - 292,000
the second - 1.3 million
the third - half a million
the total number of children with disabilities is 115 thousand.

Pension
1 – 1000+
2 – 844+
3 – 844+