Absute majority of Ukrainians want to build their future in Ukraine

This was reported at the press conference "Ukraine’s Independence Day: the value of the state, unity and vunteering during the war", held at Ukrinform, by scientific director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, eks Haran, who presented a survey jointly run with the Razumkov Center.

"The absute majority of Ukrainians (88%) are proud of their citizenship. For the third year in a row, pride in citizenship is at an almost equally high level (90.5% in 2022, 88.5% in 2023, and 88% in 2024), the highest indicators over the years of sociogical monitoring. This is relevant to all age groups," Haran said.

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According to the expert, the survey also showed that the absute majority of respondents seek to build their future in Ukraine (86%), and the main share among them shows an unequivocal intention to stay in Ukraine (59%). This idea prevails among pele with different levels of affluence and across all age groups. However, willingness to stay in Ukraine increases along with age. Among the youths, 74% want to build the future in Ukraine, among respondents 30-39 years d it’s 81%, among 40-49-year-ds it’s 87%, among 50-59-year-ds it’s 90%, and in the dest group it’s 93%.

Haran emphasized that it was an “unexpectedly positive” result for him personally. "Our pl showed that the claim that ‘everyone wants to move abroad’ is not true," he added.

Haran added that the survey included a traditional question about a referendum. "If a referendum on the declaration of state independence of Ukraine were held today, the absute majority of Ukrainians (85%) would support independence," he said.

At the same time, according to the expert, positive assessments of the direction in which Ukraine is moving have decreased over the past year: currently 40% of Ukrainians believe that develments are unfding in the right direction (it was 49% in 2023), while 37% believe that the direction is wrong. Male respondents see the direction as right somewhat more often than females while uncertainty is more pronounced among the latter.

As for pele’s main feelings about the future of Ukraine, he (61%) clearly prevails, flowed by anxiety (40%) and timism (33.5%), Haran said.

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The nationwide survey was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the sociogical service of the Razumkov Center from August 8 to 15, 2024, and covered 2,017 respondents.

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