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📍I received a partial answer to my question “Can Zakarpattia safely and comfortably accommodate 2–3 million people without an infrastructure collapse?”, posed in the August 2026 publication.
📍The mayor of Perechyn, Ivan Pohorilyak, voiced a forecast that the population of the Perechyn community could increase sixfold — to 90 thousand people by 2032, compared to the current roughly 15 thousand. The community is already building residential complexes designed for a total of 10 thousand people, which will be completed in 2027–2028.
📍The basis of this demographic “explosion” will be enterprises relocated to Perechyn from Kramatorsk, controlled by businessman Maksym Yefimov. Accordingly, the number of displaced people from Donbas will also grow, causing the share of native residents to fall to 15–20 percent.
Extrapolating the processes occurring in the Perechyn area to the whole region gives approximate figures. Considering that Zakarpattia region (taking into account the outflow of several hundred thousand locals abroad and the influx of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons) currently has about 1,25 million residents, one can assume that in the future the country could be home to up to 7–8 million people.
📍The current population density of the Perechyn community is approximately 88 people/km², which is slightly less than the population density of Zakarpattia region as a whole (97–98 people per 1 km²). With a population of 90 000 people, the Perechyn community’s density would be 623 people per 1 km². In the hypothetical case of the region’s population rising to 7,5 million, Zakarpattia’s average population density would reach 587 people per 1 km² — that is higher than in the Netherlands, and would make the region one of the most densely populated in Europe. Admittedly, it would still be far from the level of Bangladesh (where the average density is 1 366 people per 1 km²). Impressive prospects.
- journalist Pavlo Fedaka
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