[Demographic situation in Chernigiv area and its connection with Chernobyl catastrophe]. / Demohrafichna sytuatsiia v Chernihivs'kii oblasti ta ïï zv'iazok z Chornobyl's'koiu katastrofoiu.

The article presents statistics concerning demographic "crisis" in the regions of Chernigiv area and in Ukraine, as a whole with connection to consequences resulted from Chernobyl catastrophe. The crisis is characterized by increase in population mortality and birth rate reduction, that caused negative natural growth tendency of population. The factors causing reduction in population number of Chernigiv Oblast and in Ukraine as a whole are the following: the effect of ionizing radiation, social-economic indices (the reduction of population profits, unemployment, worsening of medical care, psychoemotional stress caused by the crisis situation in Ukraine, migration of the considerable number of population abroad).