Azerbaijan became the only country in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, whose population, in particular, children, did not feel the negative influence of the Ukrainian crisis and related economic upheavals, Interfax-Azerbaijan reports with reference to the report of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF ) under the name “The influence of the war in Ukraine and the subsequent economic decline on children’s poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.”
According to Interfax-Azerbaijan, such evaluative data are given in the report of the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) “The influence of war in Ukraine and the subsequent economic decline on children’s poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”
According to the fund estimates, if during this time (since March 2022 – IF) in Azerbaijan the number of children living in poverty has decreased by about 4 thousand, citizens, in general, by about 10 thousand people, then in other countries the region is observed the opposite picture.
So, 14.5 thousand children and 52.7 thousand people in Armenia were impoverished in Georgia, in Georgia – 4.2 thousand children and 17.3 thousand people, Kazakhstan – 28 thousand children and 51, 3 thousand people, Kyrgyzstan – 67.6 thousand children and 143.8 thousand people, Moldova – 13.6 thousand children and 60.3 thousand people, Russia – 2.8 million children and 8.3 million people , Tajikistan – 50.6 thousand children and 75.4 thousand people, Turkmenistan – 6.4 thousand children and 12 thousand people, Ukraine – 400 thousand children and 472 thousand people, Uzbekistan – 89.5 thousand. children and 179 thousand people.
All the events in Ukraine and economic shocks led to the fact that in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, children’s poverty increased by 3.8 million people, only 10.3 million people as a whole.
impoverished.