rate of Ukrainian emigrants as a proportion of the native population, while the much larger Russia has the largest absolute confirmed number of Ukrainian emigrants (leaving aside Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic, for which there is conflicting data). Immigration Between 1991 and 2003, about 100,000 illegal immigrants were detained at the western borders. In 2005, about 5,000 illegal immigrants are detained yearly. Most of these are Asian immigrants from China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. At the time about 3,000 officially registered refugees resided in Ukraine, of whom most were Afghans. Ukraine accepted some 62,000 refugees from Transnistria following its war in 1992. Thousands were also accepted during decade from other post-Soviet conflicts in Abkhazia, Chechnya and Tajikistan. Results between the 1989 Soviet census and the 2001 census showed an increased number of CIS people in Ukraine from regions witnessing war. The number of Armenians in Ukraine almost doubled to 99,900 people during this period, while the number of Georgians and Azerbaijanis also had substantial increases. As of April 2020, 1.4 million Ukrainians are internally displaced due to the ongoing war in Donbas. See also Health in Ukraine Demographic history of Crimea Ethnic groups in Ukraine General: Ageing of Europe References External links Trafficking in and enslavement of women Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women, 2–13 March 1998 Migration News, 2001 University of California, Davis The demographic situation in Ukraine: present state. tendencies, and predictions , Razumkov Centre On the status of observance and protection of the rights of Ukrainian citizens abroad the Special Report of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights News on Trafficking of Ukrainian Women, 2000–01 Trafficking in Women from Ukraine Research Project, University of Rhode Island Caught Between East and West, Ukraine Struggles with Its Migration Policy By Olena Malynovska, National Institute for International Security Problems, Kyiv, January 2006 Emigration from Ukraine, 23 October 2003 The Economist (subscription required) Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine MPIDR - Publications