Geospatial Aspects of Child Mortality Research in Ukraine at the Beginning of the Xxi Century

The demographic situation in Ukraine remains extremely tense, the mortality rate of populatuion is the largest in Europe. Mortality is an extremely informative indicator of public health in particular and level of socio-economic development of the country as a whole. For mortality affects the whole complex of factors: demographic, socio-economic, medical, natural biological, political, environmental, ethnic, etc. The article deals with a child mortality rate used to assess socio-economic development of regions, since child mortality is more sensitive to regional features and living conditions of the population. Today, the problem of reducing child mortality is becoming a special significance against the background of population reduction due to high mortality and low fertility. Dynamics of child mortality indicators for1989 and 2020 by regions. In almost all administrative oblasts, we see a significant reduction in this indicator, this is due not to improve the state of medical care, or the improvement of the socio-economic level of the population of Ukraine, which is primarily due to the decrease in the birth rate of Ukraine and with a general depopulation situation. Such an indicator as mortality of young people aged from 0–18 years in 2020 positive changes in its declining. The considered indicators have a rather pustular territorial differentiation within the regions of Ukraine and is characterized both in spatial and in time ratios less stable than other geodemographic indicators.