The 2020 census will be conducted in person – not by telephone — and will cost the national budget $110 million

The 2020 census will be conducted in person – not by telephone — and will cost the national budget $110 million, Ella Libanova, a Ukrainian demographer, tells Novoye Vremy. Although Ukraine has lost almost 20 percent of its population since its peak in 1993, she assures: “A country with a mild climate in the center of Europe will never be empty.” If the government’s 42.3 million estimate is correct, Ukraine’s population has receded to the level of 1960.