Demographics of Ukraine

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Population of Ukraine, Data of State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, year 2007 ; Number of inhabitants in millions.

The data in this article are based on the most recent Ukrainian Census, which was carried out in 2001, and the annual CIA World Factbook.

[edit] Statistic (2006 & 2007 data)

Population
46,710,816 (July 2006 est.)

Age structure

• 0-14 years: 14.1% (male 3,377,868/female 3,203,738)
• 15-64 years: 69.3% (male 15,559,998/female 16,831,486)
• 65 years and over: 16.6% (male 2,635,651/female 5,102,075) (2006 est.)

Median age

• total: 39.2 years
• male: 35.9 years
• female: 42.2 years (2006 est.)

Population growth rate
-0.675% (2007 est.)

Birth rate
9.45 births/1,000 population (2007) [1]

Death rate
16.07 deaths/1,000 population (2007)[2]

Net migration rate
-0.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Sex ratio

• at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
• under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
• 15-64 years: 0.92 male(s)/female
• 65 years and over: 0.52 male(s)/female
• total population: 0.86 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

Infant mortality rate

• total: 9.9 deaths/1,000 live births
• male: 11.48 deaths/1,000 live births
• female: 8.22 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

• total population: 70.0 years
• male: 64.7 years
• female: 75.6 years (2006 est.)

Total fertility rate
1.213 children born/woman (2005) [3]

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
1.4% (2003 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
360,000 (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths
20,000 (2003 est.)

Nationality

• noun: Ukrainian(s)
• adjective: Ukrainian

Ethnic groups
Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5% (or Romanians 0.8%), Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, Greeks 0.2%, other 1.6% (2001 census)

Religions
Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy 50%, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) 26%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 8%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 7%, Protestant, Jewish, Catholics, none 9% (2006 est.)[4]

Languages
Ukrainian 67%, Russian 24%, Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian-, Romanian-, Polish-, Hungarian, Rusyn -speaking minorities

Literacy

• definition: age 15 and over can read and write
• total population: 99.7%
• male: 99.8%
• female: 99.6% (2003 est.)

[edit] Regional Differences in Demographics

Percent of Ukrainians per oblast.

Between the Soviet census of 1989 and the Ukrainian census of 2001, Ukraine's population declined from 51,271,996 to 48,077,020, a loss of 3,194,976 people or 6.23% of the 1989 population. Making it to date a country with the lowest birth rate in Europe ^[1] However, this trend has been quite uneven and varied regionally. Three regions in western Ukraine - Volyn, Rivne, and Zakarpattia saw a slight population increase of 0.2%, 0.8% and 1%, respectively. Collectively, between 1989 and 2001 the seven western regions annexed to the USSR in 1939 lost 119,893 people or 1.2% of their 1989 population. The total population of these regions in 2001 was 9,593,800.

Between 1989 and 2001, the population of Kiev region increased by 6.9% and that of Kiev City by 1.5%. Outside the capital, the central, southern and eastern regions experienced a severe decline in population. Between 1989 and 2001, the Dontesk region lost 470,681 people or 8.9% of its population, and neighbouring Luhansk region lost 10.9% of its population. Cherkasy region, in central Ukraine south of Kiev, lost 10.8%, while Odessa region lost 155,245 people, or 5.9% of its 1989 population. By 2001, Crimea's population declined by 396,795 people, representing 16.33% of the 1989 population, despite the return of displaced groups such as Crimean Tatars. Collectively, the net population loss in those parts of Ukraine that had belonged to the USSR prior to 1939 was 3,075,083 people or 6% of the 1989 population. The total population of these regions in 2001 was 38,483,220.

Thus, from 1989 until 2001 the pattern of population change was one of modest growth in Kiev, slight declines in western Ukraine, significant declines in eastern, central and southern Ukraine and a catastrophic decline in Crimea.

Regional differences in birth rates may account for some of the demographic differences. In the third quarter of 2007, for instance, the highest birth rate among Ukrainian regions occurred in Volyn Oblast, with a birth rate of 13.4/1,000 people, compared to the Ukrainian country-wide average of 9.6/1,000 people ^[2], which is the lowest in Europe, Volyn's birthrate is higher than the birth rate in any European country with the exceptions of Iceland and Albania ^[3] In 2007, only five Ukrainian regions (Zakarpattia Oblast, Rivne Oblast,Volyn Oblast, Lviv Oblast, and Kiev Oblast) experienced more births than deaths ^[4] The ratio of births to deaths in those regions in 2007 was 119%, 117%, 110%, 100.7%, and 108%, respectively. With the exception of Kiev region, all of the regions with more births than deaths were in western Ukraine.

[edit] Migration

Ukraine is the major source of migrants in many of the European Union Member States. During the 1990s and early 2000s, Ukraine's sputtering economy and political instability contributed to rising emigration, especially to nearby Poland and Hungary, but also to other States such as Portugal, Turkey, Israel, Russia and Canada. Although estimates vary, approximately two to three million Ukrainian citizens are currently working abroad, most of them illegally, in construction, service, housekeeping, and agriculture industries.

Ukrainian embassies report that 300,000 Ukrainian citizens are working in Poland, 200,000 in Italy, approximately 200,000 in the Czech Republic, 150,000 in Portugal, 100,000 in Spain, 35,000 in Turkey, and 20,000 in the US. The largest number of Ukrainian workers abroad, about one million, are in the Russian Federation. Since 1992, 232,072 persons born in Ukraine have emigrated to the US.

From the point of view of the economic impact on natives, more appropriate than the absolute numbers is the volume of immigration as a proportion of the native population. Portugal and Czech Republic have the highest rate of Ukrainian emigrants as a proportion of the native population.

[edit] Ethnic Groups

The below table gives the total population of various ethnic groups in Ukraine, according to the 2000 census and the language ability. [5]

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[edit] Data sources

• CIA World Factbook
• 2001 Ukrainian Census

[edit] 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 Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Pollitical Studies named after Olexander Razumkov
• 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, Oct 23rd 2003 The Economist (subscription required)