Ukraine’s first nationwide household survey in over a decade has revealed the war’s impact on family life and recorded a fertility rate of 1.1 children per woman – higher than the 0.9 figure previously cited by government officials. Ukraine has not produced nationally representative household data of this quality since 2012.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Since then, the country has been hit by major events such as the annexation of Crimea, Russia’s intervention in the Donbas in 2014, and the full-scale invasion in 2022, all of which have had lasting effects on its demography, geography, and economy. But an update finally arrived when Ukraine’s State Statistics Service launched the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) with support from UNICEF. Fieldwork covered 16,186 households in government-controlled territory, with frontline and border communities excluded, except the city of Kherson. “It reflects the feelings, emotions, experiences, and needs of those who fall outside the scope of administrative data,” Arsen Makarchuk, chairman of the State Statistics Service, said at a briefing on Thursday. Data collection took place from October 2025 to March 2026 – Ukraine’s coldest months, marked by devastating strikes on energy infrastructure and prolonged blackouts. Despite these conditions, the response rate reached 74%, unusually high even by European standards, according to Makarchuk.