The first Ukrainian census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989 and was so far the only census held in independent Ukraine.[1][2]
The total population recorded was 48,457,100 persons, of which the urban population was 32,574,500 (67.2%), rural: 15,882,600 (32.8%), male: 22,441,400 (46.3%), female: 26,015,700 (53.7%). The total permanent population recorded was 48,241,000 persons.
Settlements
There were 454 cities nine of them with population over 500,000. The census recorded over 130 nationalities.
Future censuses
The next Ukrainian census was planned to be held in 2020.[1] But in April 2020 Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleh Nemchinov confirmed that in 2020 there will not be a census in Ukraine and probably also not in 2021 because the census was considered "an expensive pleasure."[2]
Actual population by regions
Region | Population, 2001 (thousands) |
Population, 1989 (thousands) |
Change (percent) |
---|---|---|---|
Autonomous Republic of Crimea | 2033.7 | 2063.6 | 99 |
Cherkasy Oblast | 1402.9 | 1531.5 | 92 |
Chernihiv Oblast | 1245.3 | 1415.9 | 88 |
Chernivtsi Oblast | 922.8 | 938.0 | 98 |
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 3567.6 | 3881.2 | 92 |
Donetsk Oblast | 4841.1 | 5332.4 | 91 |
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 1409.8 | 1423.5 | 99 |
Kharkiv Oblast | 2914.2 | 3195.0 | 91 |
Kherson Oblast | 1175.1 | 1240.0 | 95 |
Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 1430.8 | 1527.1 | 94 |
Kirovohrad Oblast | 1133.1 | 1239.4 | 91 |
Kiev Oblast | 1827.9 | 1940.0 | 94 |
Luhansk Oblast | 2546.2 | 2862.7 | 89 |
Lviv Oblast | 2626.5 | 2747.7 | 94 |
Mykolaiv Oblast | 1264.7 | 1330.6 | 95 |
Odessa Oblast | 2469.0 | 2642.6 | 93 |
Poltava Oblast | 1630.1 | 1753.0 | 93 |
Rivne Oblast | 1173.3 | 1169.7 | 100 |
Sumy Oblast | 1299.7 | 1432.7 | 91 |
Ternopil Oblast | 1142.4 | 1168.9 | 98 |
Vinnytsia Oblast | 1772.4 | 1932.6 | 92 |
Volyn Oblast | 1060.7 | 1061.2 | 100 |
Zakarpattia Oblast | 1258.3 | 1252.3 | 100 |
Zaporizhzhia Oblast | 1929.2 | 2081.8 | 93 |
Zhytomyr Oblast | 1389.5 | 1545.4 | 90 |
Kiev (city) | 2611.3 | 2602.8 | 100 |
Sevastopol (city) | 379.5 | 395.0 | 96 |
Urban and rural population by regions
Region | Urban Population (thousands) |
Rural Population (thousands) |
Urban Population (percent) |
Rural Population (percent) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Autonomous Republic of Crimea | 1274.3 | 759.4 | 63 | 37 |
Cherkasy Oblast | 753.6 | 649.3 | 54 | 46 |
Chernihiv Oblast | 727.2 | 518.1 | 58 | 42 |
Chernivtsi Oblast | 373.5 | 549.3 | 40 | 60 |
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 2960.3 | 607.3 | 83 | 17 |
Donetsk Oblast | 4363.6 | 477.5 | 90 | 10 |
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 593.0 | 816.8 | 42 | 58 |
Kharkiv Oblast | 2288.7 | 625.5 | 79 | 21 |
Kherson Oblast | 706.2 | 468.9 | 60 | 40 |
Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 729.6 | 701.2 | 51 | 49 |
Kirovohrad Oblast | 682.0 | 451.1 | 60 | 40 |
Kiev Oblast | 1053.5 | 774.4 | 58 | 42 |
Luhansk Oblast | 2190.8 | 355.4 | 86 | 14 |
Lviv region | 1558.7 | 1067.8 | 59 | 41 |
Mykolaiv Oblast | 838.8 | 425.9 | 66 | 34 |
Odessa Oblast | 1624.6 | 844.4 | 66 | 34 |
Poltava Oblast | 956.8 | 673.3 | 59 | 41 |
Rivne Oblast | 549.7 | 623.6 | 47 | 53 |
Sumy Oblast | 842.9 | 456.8 | 65 | 35 |
Ternopil Oblast | 485.6 | 656.8 | 43 | 57 |
Vinnytsia Oblast | 818.9 | 953.5 | 46 | 54 |
Volyn Oblast | 533.2 | 527.5 | 50 | 50 |
Zakarpattia Oblast | 466.0 | 792.3 | 37 | 63 |
Zaporizhzhia Oblast | 1458.2 | 471.0 | 76 | 24 |
Zhytomyr Oblast | 775.4 | 614.1 | 56 | 44 |
Kiev (city) | 2611.3 | - | 100 | - |
Sevastopol (city) | 358.1 | 21.4 | 94 | 6 |
Gender structure by regions
Region | Male (thousands) |
Female (thousands) |
Male (percent) |
Female (percent) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Autonomous Republic of Crimea | 937.6 | 1096.1 | 46 | 54 |
Cherkasy Oblast | 638.8 | 764.2 | 46 | 54 |
Chernihiv Oblast | 565.5 | 679.7 | 45 | 55 |
Chernivtsi Oblast | 432.1 | 490.7 | 47 | 53 |
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 1643.3 | 1924.3 | 46 | 54 |
Donetsk Oblast | 2219.9 | 2621.2 | 46 | 54 |
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 665.2 | 744.5 | 47 | 53 |
Kharkiv Oblast | 1339.5 | 1574.7 | 46 | 54 |
Kherson Oblast | 548.5 | 626.6 | 47 | 53 |
Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 659.9 | 770.8 | 46 | 54 |
Kirovohrad Oblast | 520.8 | 612.2 | 46 | 54 |
Kiev Oblast | 845.9 | 982.0 | 46 | 54 |
Luhansk Oblast | 1169.9 | 1376.3 | 46 | 54 |
Lviv Oblast | 1245.1 | 1381.4 | 47 | 53 |
Mykolaiv Oblast | 588.2 | 676.6 | 47 | 53 |
Odessa Oblast | 1155.4 | 1313.6 | 47 | 53 |
Poltava Oblast | 747.4 | 882.7 | 46 | 54 |
Rivne Oblast | 555.6 | 617.7 | 47 | 53 |
Sumy Oblast | 593.8 | 705.9 | 46 | 54 |
Ternopil Oblast | 530.2 | 612.3 | 46 | 54 |
Vinnytsia Oblast | 809.6 | 962.8 | 46 | 54 |
Volyn Oblast | 500.1 | 560.6 | 47 | 53 |
Zakarpattia Oblast | 605.5 | 652.8 | 48 | 52 |
Zaporizhzhia Oblast | 886.6 | 1042.6 | 46 | 54 |
Zhytomyr Oblast | 644.8 | 744.7 | 46 | 54 |
Kiev (city) | 1218.7 | 1392.7 | 47 | 53 |
Sevastopol (city) | 173.5 | 206.0 | 46 | 54 |
National structure
Region | Population, 2001 (thousands) |
Population, 2001 (percent) |
Population, 1989 (percent) |
Change (percent) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ukrainians | 37541.7 | 77.8 | 72.7 | 100.3 |
Russians | 8334.1 | 17.3 | 22.1 | 73.4 |
Belarusians | 275.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 62.7 |
Moldavians | 258.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 79.7 |
Crimean Tatars | 248.2 | 0.5 | 0 | 530.0 |
Bulgarians | 204.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 87.5 |
Hungarians | 156.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 96.0 |
Romanians | 151.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 112.0 |
Poles | 144.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 65.8 |
Jews | 103.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 21.3 |
Armenians | 99.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 180.0 |
Greeks | 91.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 92.9 |
Tatars | 73.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 84.4 |
Gipsies | 47.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 99.3 |
Azerbaijanians | 45.2 | 0.1 | 0 | 122.2 |
Georgians | 34.2 | 0.1 | 0 | 145.3 |
Germans | 33.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 88.0 |
Gagausians | 31.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 99.9 |
Other | 177.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 83.9 |
National structure by regions
Note: listed are those nationalities which comprise more than 0.25% of regional population. Numbers are given in thousands.
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea - 2,024.0 (100%)
- Russians - 1,180.4 (58.3%)
- Ukrainians - 492.2 (24.3%)
- Crimean Tatars - 243.4 (12.0%)
- Belarusians - 29.2 (1.4%)
- Tatars - 11.0 (0.5%)
- Armenians - (0.4%)
- Cherkasy Oblast - 1,398.3 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,301.2 (93.1%)
- Russians - 75.6 (5.4%)
- Belarusians - 3.9 (0.3%)
- Chernihiv Oblast - 1,236.1 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,155.4 (93.5%)
- Russians - 62.2 (5.0%)
- Belarusians - 7.1 (0.6%)
- Chernivtsi Oblast - 919.0 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 689.1 (75.0%)
- Romanians - 114.6 (12.5%)
- Moldavians - 67.2 (7.3%)
- Russians - 37.9 (4.1%)
- Poles - 3.3 (0.4%)
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - 3,561.2 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 2,825.8 (79.3%)
- Russians - 627.5 (17.6%)
- Belarusians - 29.5 (0.8%)
- Jews - 13.7 (0.4%)
- Armenians - 10.6 (0.3%)
- Donetsk Oblast - 4,825.6 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 2,744.1 (56.9%)
- Russians - 1,844.4 (38.2%)
- Greeks - 77.5 (1.6%)
- Belarusians - 44.5 (0.9%)
- Tatars - 19.1 (0.4%)
- Armenians - 15.7 (0.3%)
- Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast - 1,406.1 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,371.2 (97.5%)
- Russians - 24.9 (1.8%)
- Kharkiv Oblast - 2,895.8 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 2,048.7 (70.7%)
- Russians - 742.0 (25.6%)
- Belarusians - 14.7 (0.5%)
- Jews - 11.5 (0.4%)
- Armenians - 11.1 (0.4%)
- Kherson Oblast - 1,172.7 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 961.6 (82.0%)
- Russians - 165.2 (14.1%)
- Belarusians - 8.1 (0.7%)
- Tatars - 5.3 (0.5%)
- Armenians - 4.5 (0.4%)
- Moldavians - 4.1 (0.4%)
- Khmelnytskyi Oblast - 1,426.6 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,339.3 (93.9%)
- Russians - 50.7 (3.6%)
- Poles - 23.0 (1.6%)
- Kirovohrad Oblast - 1,125.7 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,014.6 (90.1%)
- Russians - 83.9 (7.5%)
- Moldavians - 8.2 (0.7%)
- Belarusians - 5.5 (0.5%)
- Armenians - 2.9 (0.3%)
- Kiev Oblast - 1,821.1 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,684.8 (92.5%)
- Russians - 109.3 (6.0%)
- Belarusians - 8.6 (0.5%)
- Luhansk Oblast - 2,540.2 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,472.4 (58.0%)
- Russians - 991.8 (39.0%)
- Belarusians - 20.5 (0.8%)
- Tatars - 8.5 (0.3%)
- Armenians - 6.5 (0.3%)
- Lviv Oblast - 2,606.0 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 2,471.0 (94.8%)
- Russians - 92.6 (3.6%)
- Poles - 18.9 (0.7%)
- Mykolaiv Oblast - 1,262.9 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,034.5 (81.9%)
- Russians - 177.5 (14.1%)
- Moldavians - 13.1 (1.0%)
- Belarusians - 8.3 (0.7%)
- Bulgarians - 5.6 (0.4%)
- Armenians - 4.2 (0.3%)
- Jews - 3.2 (0.3%)
- Odessa Oblast - 2,455.7 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,542.3 (62.8%)
- Russians - 508.5 (20.7%)
- Bulgarians - 150.6 (6.1%)
- Moldavians - 123.7 (5.0%)
- Gagausians - 27.6 (1.1%)
- Jews - 13.3 (0.5%)
- Belarusians - 12.7 (0.5%)
- Armenians - 7.4 (0.3%)
- Poltava Oblast - 1,621.2 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,481.1 (91.4%)
- Russians - 117.1 (7.2%)
- Belarusians - 6.3 (0.4%)
- Rivne Oblast - 1,171.4 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,123.4 (95.9%)
- Russians - 30.1 (2.6%)
- Belarusians - 11.8 (1.0%)
- Sumy Oblast - 1,296.8 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,152.0 (88.8%)
- Russians - 121.7 (9.4%)
- Belarusians - 4.3 (0.3%)
- Ternopil Oblast - 1,138.5 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,113.5 (97.8%)
- Russians - 14.2 (1.2%)
- Poles - 3.8 (0.3%)
- Vinnytsia Oblast - 1,763.9 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,674.1 (94.9%)
- Russians - 67.5 (3.8%)
- Volyn Oblast - 1,057.2 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,025.0 (96.9%)
- Russians - 25.1 (2.4%)
- Belarusians - 3.2 (0.3%)
- Zakarpattia Oblast - 1,254.6 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,010.1 (80.5%)
- Hungarians - 151.5 (12.1%)
- Romanians - 32.1 (2.6%)
- Russians - 31.0 (2.5%)
- Gypsies - 14.0 (1.1%)
- Slovaks - 5.6 (0.5%)
- Germans - 3.5 (0.3%)
- Zaporizhzhia Oblast - 1,926.8 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,364.1 (70.8%)
- Russians - 476.8 (24.7%)
- Bulgarians - 27.7 (1.4%)
- Belarusians - 12.6 (0.7%)
- Armenians - 6.4 (0.3%)
- Tatars - 5.1 (0.3%)
- Zhytomyr Oblast - 1,389.3 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,255.0 (90.3%)
- Russians - 68.9 (5.0%)
- Poles - 49.0 (3.5%)
- Belarusians - 4.9 (0.4%)
- Kiev - 2,567.0 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 2,110.8 (82.2%)
- Russians - 337.3 (13.1%)
- Jews - 17.9 (0.7%)
- Belarusians - 16.5 (0.6%)
- Poles - 6.9 (0.3%)
- Sevastopol - 377.2 (100%)
- Russians - 270.0 (71.6%)
- Ukrainians - 84.4 (22.4%)
- Belarusians - 5.8 (1.6%)
- Tatars - 2.5 (0.7%)
- Crimean Tatars - 1.8 (0.5%)
- Armenians - 1.3 (0.3%)
- Jews - 1.0 (0.3%)
See also
References
- ^ a b Ukrainian population census will be held in 2020 – Cabinet decree, Interfax-Ukraine (22 December 2015)
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) In 2021, there will most likely be no all-Ukrainian census - Minister, hromadske.ua (21 April 2020)
External links
- 2001 Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
- 2001 Census results. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
- (in Ukrainian and Russian) How the Ukrainians will be counted, Zerkalo Nedeli (the Mirror Weekly), November 24–30, 2001, in Ukrainian, in Russian[permanent dead link].
- Law of Ukraine "About the All-Ukrainian Census" (Ukrainian)