Demographics of Ukraine

Demographics of Ukraine
Population of Ukraine (in millions) from 1950-2012.
Population	45,547,800 (1 January 2013)
Growth rate	-3.1 people/1,000 population (2012)
Birth rate	11.4 births/1,000 population (2012)
Death rate	14.5 deaths/1,000 population (2012)
Life expectancy	71.15 years (2012)
• male	66.11 years
• female	76.02 years
Fertility rate	1.53 children born/woman (2012)
Infant mortality rate	8.4 deaths/1,000 infants (2012)
Net migration rate	0.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008)
Age structure
0–14 years	14.6%
15–64 years	70.2%
65 and over	15.2% (2013 est.)
Sex ratio
At birth	1.06 male(s)/female
Under 15	1.06 male(s)/female
15–64 years	0.92 male(s)/female
65 and over	0.51 male(s)/female
Nationality
Nationality	noun: Ukrainian(s) adjective: Ukrainian
Major ethnic	Ukrainians (77.8%)
Minor ethnic	Russians (17.3%)
Language
Official	Ukrainian
Spoken	Russian, Ukrainian, others

The Demographics of Ukraine are the demographic features of the population of Ukraine, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.

The data in this article are based on the most recent Ukrainian Census, which was carried out in 2001,^[1] the CIA World Factbook, and the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. The next census is scheduled to take place in 2016.^[2]

Historical data

There were roughly 4 million Ukrainians at the end of the 17th century.^[3] The historical information is taken out of Demoscope.ru. Please, note that territory of the modern Ukraine at the times listed above varied greatly. The western regions of Ukraine, west of Zbruch river, until 1939 for most of time were part of the Kingdom Galicia and later the Polish Republic. The detailed information for those territories is missing, for more information see Demographics of Poland. The Crimean peninsula was changing hands as well, in 1897 it was a part of the Taurida Governorate, but after the October Revolution became part of the Russian SFSR, and later was turned under the administration of the Ukrainian SSR. The territory of Budjak (southern Bessarabia) became a part of the Ukrainian SSR in June 1940. The censuses of 1926 through 1989 were taken in the Ukrainian SSR. The census of 1897 is taken with the correspondence to nine gubernias that included in the territory of today's Ukraine. The statistics of 1905 records are taken from www.statoids.com which provides a broad degree of historical explanation on the situation in the Imperial Russia. The census statistics of 1931 was estimated by the professor Zenon Kuzela (1882–1952)^[4] from Berlin. His calculations are as of January 1, 1931. This ethnograph is mentioned in the encyclopedia of Ukraine as one of the sources only available due to lack of the official census.^[5][6] The 2001 census was the first official census of the independent republic of Ukraine. Its data is given as on January 1. The 2003-2009 stats were taken from the official web-site of www.ukrstat.gov.ua and represent the data as of February of each year for the real population.

Before WWII

Population of the Ukrainian SSR according to ethnic group 1926–1939

Ethnic group	census 19261		census 19392
	Number	%	Number	%
Ukrainians	23,218,860	80.0	23,667,509	76.5
Russians	2,677,166	9.2	4,175,299	13.5
Jews	1,574,428	5.4	1,532,776	5.0
Germans	393,924	1.4	392,458	1.3
Poles	476,435	1.6	357,710	1.2
Moldavians / Romanians	257,794	0.9	230,698	0.8
Belarusians	75,842	0.3	158,174	0.5
Greeks	104,666	0.4	107,047	0.4
Bulgarians	99,278	0.3	83,838	0.3
Tatars	22,281	0.1	55,456	0.2
Romani	13,578	0.0	10,443	0.0
Others	103,935	0.4	174,810	0.6
Total	29,018,187		30,946,218
1 Source: . 2 Source: .

After WWII

Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Romanian 0.8% (including Moldovan 0.5%), Belarusian 0.6%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, Greeks 0.2% and other 1.6% (including Muslim Bulgarians, otherwise known as Torbesh and a microcosm of Gotlander Swedes of Gammalsvenskby).^[7]

Population of Ukraine according to ethnic group 1959-2001

Ethnic group	census 19591		census 19702		census 19793		census 19894		census 20015
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Ukrainians	32,158,493	76.8	35,283,857	74.9	36,488,951	73.6	37,419,053	72.7	37,541,693	77.5
Russians	7,090,813	16.9	9,126,331	19.4	10,471,602	21.1	11,355,582	22.1	8,334,141	17.2
Moldavians / Romanians	341,512	0.8	378,043	0.8	415,371	0.9	459,420	0.9	409,608	0.8
Belarusians	290,890	0.7	385,847	0.8	406,098	0.8	440,045	0.9	275,763	0.6
Crimean Tatars	193	0.0	3,554	0.0	6,636	0.0	46,807	0.1	248,193	0.5
Bulgarians	219,419	0.5	234,390	0.5	238,217	0.5	233,800	0.5	204,574	0.4
Hungarians	149,229	0.4	157,731	0.3	164,373	0.3	163,111	0.3	156,566	0.3
Poles	363,297	0.9	295,107	0.6	258,309	0.5	219,179	0.4	144,130	0.3
Jews	840,311	2.0	777,126	1.7	634,154	1.3	486,628	1.0	103,591	0.2
Armenians	28,024	0.1	33,439	0.1	38,646	0.1	54,200	0.1	99,894	0.2
Greeks	104,359	0.3	106,909	0.2	104,091	0.2	98,594	0.2	91,548	0.2
Tatars	61,334	0.2	72,658	0.2	83,906	0.2	86,875	0.2	73,304	0.2
Romani	22,515	0.1	30,091	0.1	34,411	0.1	47,917	0.1	47,587	0.1
Azerbaijanis	6,680	0.0	10,769	0.0	17,235	0.0	36,961	0.1	45,176	0.1
Georgians	11,574	0.0	14,650	0.0	16,301	0.0	23,540	0.1	34,199	0.1
Germans	23,243	0.1	29,871	0.1	34,139	0.1	37,849	0.1	33,302	0.1
Gagauzs	23,530	0.1	26,464	0.1	29,398	0.1	31,967	0.1	31,923	0.1
Karaites	3,301	0.0	2,596	0.0	1,845	0.0	1,404	0.0	1,196	0.0
Others	129,338	0.3	157,084	0.3	165,650	0.3	209,172	0.4	539,604	1.1
Total	41,869,046		47,126,517		49,609,333		51,452,034		48,416,000
1 Source: . 2 Source: . 3 Source: . 4 Source: . 5 Source: .

Vital statistics ^[8][9]

	Average popu- lation (x 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)	Fertility rates	Urban Fertility	Rural Fertility	Abortions, reported
1906		1,460,000			44,0
1913	32,236	1,500,000			38,0			6,00
1925	29,732	1,400,000			35,0			5,39			149 700
1940	40,649	1,100,000			27,3			3,80
1946		753 493
1947		712 994
1948		757 783
1949		911 641
1950	36 905	844 585	315 300	529 300	22.9	8.5	14.3	2.81
1951	37 569	858 052	327 500	530 600	22.8	8.7	14.1
1952	38 141	846 434	325 700	520 700	22.2	8.5	13.7
1953	38 678	795 652	326 800	468 900	20.6	8.4	12.1
1954	39 131	845 128	318 500	526 600	21.6	8.1	13.5
1955	39 506	792 696	296 200	496 500	20.1	7.5	12.6	2.70
1956	40 082	822 569	293 000	529 600	20.5	7.3	13.2
1957	40 800	847 781	304 800	543 000	20.8	7.5	13.3
1958	41 512	873 483	286 700	586 800	21.0	6.9	14.1	2.30
1959	42 155	880 552	316 800	563 800	20.9	7.5	13.4	2,29
1960	42 469	878 768	296 171	582 597	20.7	7.0	13.7	2.24
1961	43 097	843 482	304 346	539 136	19.6	7.1	12.5	2.17
1962	43 559	823 151	331 454	491 697	18.9	7.6	11.3	2.14
1963	44 088	794 969	323 556	471 413	17.9	7.3	10.6	2,06
1964	44 664	741 668	315 340	426 328	16.5	7.0	9.5	1,96
1965	45 133	692 153	342 717	349 436	15.3	7.6	7.7	1,99
1966	45 548	713 492	344 850	368 642	15.6	7.5	8.1	2,02
1967	45 997	699 381	368 573	330 808	15.1	8.0	7.2	2,01
1968	46 408	693 064	374 440	318 624	14.9	8.0	6.8	1,99
1969	46 778	687 991	404 151	283 840	14.7	8.6	6.0	2,04
1970	47 127	719 213	418 679	300 534	15.2	8.9	6.4	2.10			1,130,315
1971	47 507	736 691	424 717	311 974	15.4	8.9	6.5	2.2
1972	47 903	745 696	443 038	302 658	15.5	9.2	6.3	2,08
1973	48 274	719 560	449 351	270 209	14.9	9.3	5.6	2,04
1974	48 571	736 616	455 970	280 646	15.1	9.4	5.8	2,04
1975	48 881	738 857	489 550	249 307	15.1	10.0	5.1	2,02			1,110,223
1976	49 151	747 069	500 584	246 485	15.2	10.2	5.0	1,99
1977	49 388	726 217	517 967	208 250	14.7	10.5	4.2	1,94
1978	49 578	732 187	529 681	202 506	14.7	10.7	4.1	1,96
1979	49 755	735 188	552 019	183 169	14.7	11.1	3.7	1.96
1980	50 044	742 489	568 243	174 246	14.8	11.4	3.5	1.95			1,197,000
1981	50 222	733 183	568 789	164 394	14.6	11.3	3.3	1.93			1,112,734
1982	50 388	745 591	568 231	177 360	14.8	11.3	3.5	1.94			1,131,437
1983	50 573	807 111	583 496	223 615	16.0	11.6	4.4	2.11			1,125,686
1984	50 768	792 035	610 338	181 697	15.6	12.0	3.6	2,08			1,127,627
1985	50 941	762 775	617 548	145 227	15.0	12.1	2.9	2.02			1,179,000
1986	51 143	792 574	565 150	227 424	15.5	11.1	4.4	2.13			1,166,039
1987	51 373	760 851	586 387	174 464	14.8	11.4	3.4	2.07			1,168,136
1988	51 593	744 056	600 725	143 331	14.4	11.6	2.8	2.04			1,080,029
1989	51 770	690 981	600 590	90 391	13.3	11.6	1.7	1,923	1,78	2,33	1,058,414
1990	51 838	657 202	629 602	27 600	12.7	12.1	0.6	1,844	1,69	2,27	1,019,038
1991	51 944	630 813	669 960	-39 147	12.1	12.9	-0.8	1,773	1,61	2,33	957 022
1992	52 056	596 785	697 110	-100 325	11.4	13.4	-2.0	1,674	1,48	2,19	932 272
1993	52 244	557 467	741 662	-184 195	10.7	14.2	-3.5	1,563	1,37	2,07	860 996
1994	52 114	521 545	764 669	-243 124	10.0	14.7	-4.7	1,470	1,28	1,97	798 538
1995	51 728	492 861	792 587	-299 726	9.6	15.4	-5.8	1,397	1,22	1,86	740 172
1996	51 297	467 211	776 717	-309 506	9.2	15.2	-6.1	1,332	1,16	1,77	687 035
1997	50 818	442 581	754 151	-311 570	8.7	14.9	-6.2	1,270	1,11	1,68	596 740
1998	50 370	419 238	719 954	-300 716	8.4	14.4	-6.0	1,207	1,04	1,62	525 329
1999	49 918	389 208	739 170	-349 962	7.8	14.9	-7.0	1,121	0,97	1,51	495 760
2000	49 429	385 126	758 082	-372 956	7.8	15.4	-7.6	1,110	0,96	1,49	434 223
2001	48 923	376 479	745 953	-369 474	7.7	15.3	-7.6	1,085	0,96	1,41	369 750
2002	48 457	390 687	754 911	-364 224	8.1	15.7	-7.6	1,126	1,03	1,47	345 967
2003	48 003	408 591	765 408	-356 817	8.5	16.0	-7.5	1,172	1,09	1,48	315 835
2004	47 622	427 259	761 263	-334 004	9.0	16.0	-7.0	1,218	1,12	1,53	289 065
2005	47 280	426 085	781 964	-355 879	9.0	16.6	-7.6	1,213	1,16	1,48	263 950
2006	46 929	460 368	758 093	-297 725	9.8	16.2	-6.4	1,310	1,21	1,61	229 618
2007	46 646	472 657	762 877	-290 220	10.2	16.4	-6.2	1,345	1,28	1,69	210 454
2008	46 372	510 588	754 462	-243 874	11.0	16.3	-5.3	1,458	1,31	1,72	201 087
2009	46 143	512 526	706 740	-194 214	11.1	15.3	-4.2	1,460	1,33	1,77	194 845
2010	45 962	497 689	698 235	-200 546	10.8	15.2	-4.4	1,445	1,31	1,78	176 774
2011	45 778	502 595	664 588	-161 993	11.0	14.5	-3.5	1,459	1,32	1,80	156 193
2012	45 633	520 704	663 139	-142 435	11.4	14.5	-3.1	1.53	1.39	1.87	141 396
2013	45 553

(e) estimate

	Urban live births	Urban deaths	Urban natural change	Urban rude birth rate (per 1,000)	Urban rude death rate (per 1,000)	Urban natural change (per 1,000)	Rural live births	Rural deaths	Rural natural change	Rural crude birth rate (per 1,000)	Rural crude death rate (per 1,000)	Rural natural change (per 1,000)
1990	442,869	357,114	85,755	12.7	10.2	2.5	214,333	272,488	-58,155	12.7	16.1	-3.4
1991	419,205	380,988	38,917	11.9	10.8	1.1	211,608	288,972	-77,364	12.6	17.2	-4.6
1992	387,696	401,849	-14,153	11.0	11.4	-0.4	209,089	295,261	-86,172	12.5	17.6	-5.1
1993	356,833	432,462	-75,629	10.1	12.2	-2.1	200,634	309,200	-108,566	12.0	18.5	-6.5
1994	328,522	450,823	-122,301	9.3	12.8	-3.5	193,023	313,846	-120,823	11.6	18.8	-7.2
1995	308,408	476,434	-168,026	8.8	13.6	-4.8	184,453	316,153	-131,700	11.1	19.1	-8.0
1996	291,121	460,805	-169,684	8.4	13.3	-4.9	176,090	315,912	-139,822	10.7	19.2	-8.5
1997	274,961	444,446	-169,485	8.0	13.0	-5.0	167,620	309,705	-142,805	10.2	18.9	-8.7
1998	258,724	425,521	-166,797	7.6	12.6	-5.0	160,514	294,433	-133,919	9.9	18.1	-8.2
1999	239,408	439,986	-200,578	7.1	13.1	-6.0	149,800	299,184	-149,384	9.3	18.5	-9.2
2000	238,014	457,069	-219,055	7.2	13.8	-6.6	147,112	301,013	-153,901	9.2	18.8	-9.6
2001	237,228	450,329	-213,101	7.2	13.8	-6.6	139,250	295,623	-156,373	8.7	18.6	-9.9
2002	248,877	454,406	-205,529	7.7	14.0	-6.3	141,811	300,505	-158,694	9.0	19.1	-10.1
2003	266,415	459,965	-193,550	8.3	14.3	-6.0	142,174	305,443	-163,269	9.1	19.6	-10.5
2004	284,361	460,492	-176,131	8.9	14.4	-5.5	142,898	300,769	-157,871	9.3	19.6	-10.3
2005	284,257	471,561	-187,304	8.9	14.8	-5.9	141,829	310,400	-168,571	9.4	20.5	-11.1
2006	306,635	461,774	-155,139	9.6	14.5	-4.9	153,733	296,318	-142,585	10.3	19.8	-9.5
2007	314,065	466,253	-152,188	9.9	14.7	-4.8	158,592	296,624	-138,032	10.7	20.1	-9.4
2008	340,594	462,897	-122,303	10.8	14.6	-3.8	169,995	291,563	-121,568	11.6	19.9	-8.3
2009	339,497	432,294	-92,797	10.8	13.7	-2.9	173,028	274,445	-101,417	11.9	18.9	-7.0
2010	326,587	431,130	-104,543	10.4	13.7	-3.3	171,102	267,105	-96,003	11.9	18.6	-6.7
2011	328,934	411,025	-82,091	10.5	13.1	-2.3	173,661	253,563	-79,902	12.1	17.7	-5.6
2012	341,599	411,787	-70,788	10.9	13.1	-2.2	179,106	251,352	-72,246	12.6	17.7	-5.1

Demographic statistics

Population

45,553,000 (1 January 2013)^[10]

Current vital statistics

The number of births during the months of January–November 2013 decreased by 18047 over the same period in 2012. The birth rate for January–November 2013 was 11.1 per 1,000 population, an decrease over 11.5 during January–November 2012 and 10.9 for January–November 2011.

-Number of births from January–November 2012 = 481,637

-Number of births from January–November 2013 = 463,590

-Number of births from November 2012 = 43,010

-Number of births from November 2013 = 41,284

The number of deaths during the same period has decreased from 2220. The mortality rate for January–November 2013 was 14,5 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants of rate of 14,5 during the period of January–November 2012 and 14.6 for January–November 2011.

-Number of deaths from January–November 2012 = 606,633

-Number of deaths from January–November 2013 = 604,413

-Number of deaths from November 2012 = 54,484

-Number of deaths from November 2013 = 53,229

During the period of January–November 2013 the natural increase over the last three years were respectively -3.4 per 1000, -3.0 in 2012, and -3.7 in 2011.

Natural increase from January–November 2012 = - 124,996

Natural increase from January–November 2013 = - 140,723

Natural increase from November 2012 = - 11,474

Natural increase from November 2013 = - 11,945

Oblast to January–November	Birth/2013	Birth/2012	Birth/2011	Birth/2010	Death/2013	Death/2012	Death/2011	Death/2010
Donetsk Oblast	37755	39626	38261	37778	63222	64411	65226	67958
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	33189	34327	33156	32810	46792	47098	47908	50011
Kyiv City	30573	31214	29330	29364	25531	25367	24725	26249
Lviv Oblast	27325	28012	26581	26398	28814	28936	28472	29710
Odessa Oblast	26724	28064	26772	26322	30468	30780	30804	33088
Kharkiv Oblast	24576	25098	24101	24112	36151	36731	36846	38578
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	22142	22815	21434	21254	24574	24646	25352	26143
Luhansk Oblast	18867	20075	19471	19205	32660	33276	34232	35710
Kiev Oblast	18870	19360	18292	18073	24890	24921	24659	25904
Zakarpattia Oblast	17149	17646	16986	16792	13534	13557	13382	13552
Zaporizhia Oblast	16678	17440	16613	16469	24072	24186	24830	26239
Rivne Oblast	16073	17056	16229	15724	13283	13101	12994	13613
Vinnytsia Oblast	16051	17023	16430	16610	23239	23017	23189	24191
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	15448	15837	15141	15075	15750	15405	15218	15922
Zhytomyr Oblast	13844	14318	13839	13494	18992	18911	18665	19313
Volyn Oblast	13547	14272	13489	13736	12470	12545	12673	13044
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	13395	13768	13296	13221	18758	18574	18399	18963
Poltava Oblast	13126	13546	12967	13024	22281	22095	22393	23817
Mykolaiv Oblast	11961	12494	11859	11752	15880	15963	15976	17119
Kherson Oblast	11268	11669	10995	11391	14596	14608	14536	15026
Cherkasy Oblast	11079	11840	11419	11424	18731	18882	19132	19975
Ternopil Oblast	10940	11355	11062	10984	13435	13564	13624	14206
Chernivtsi Oblast	10604	10800	10371	10185	10521	10347	10247	10686
Kirovohrad Oblast	9688	10189	9725	9680	15116	15112	15300	16057
Sumy Oblast	9560	10203	9592	9472	17520	17340	17302	18406
Chernihiv Oblast	9098	9391	9240	9233	18213	18448	18515	19758
Sevastopol City	4060	4199	3861	3802	4820	4812	4970	5151
Birth Rate by Oblast to January–November Birth/2013 Birth/2012 Birth/2011 Birth/2010 Death/2013 Death/2012 Death/2011 Death/2010  Rivne Oblast 15,2 16,1 15,4 14,9 12,6 12,4 12,3 12,9  Zakarpattia Oblast 14,9 15,4 14,9 14,7 11,8 11,8 11,7 11,9  Volyn Oblast 14,2 15,0 14,2 14,5 13,1 13,2 13,3 13,8  Chernivtsi Oblast 12,8 13,0 12,5 12,3 12,7 12,5 12,4 12,9 Autonomous Republic of Crimea 12,3 12,7 11,9 11,8 13,7 13,7 14,1 14,5  Odessa Oblast 12,2 12,8 12,3 12,0 13,9 14,0 14,1 15,1  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 12,2 12,5 12,0 11,9 12,4 12,2 12,1 12,6  Zhytomyr Oblast 12,0 12,3 11,9 11,5 16,4 16,2 16,0 16,5  Kiev Oblast 12,0 12,3 11,7 11,5 15,8 15,8 15,7 16,5  Lviv Oblast 11,8 12,0 11,4 11,5 12,4 12,4 12,2 12,7 Kyiv City 11,7 12,1 11,4 11,5 9,8 9,8 9,6 10,3 Sevastopol City 11,5 12,0 11,1 10,9 13,7 13,8 14,3 14,8  Kherson Oblast 11,4 11,8 11,1 11,4 14,8 14,8 14,6 15,0  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 11,1 11,4 11,0 10,9 15,6 15,4 15,2 15,6  Ternopil Oblast 11,1 11,5 11,2 11,1 13,6 13,7 13,8 14,3  Mykolaiv Oblast 11,2 11,6 11,0 10,9 14,8 14,8 14,8 15,8  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 11,0 11,3 10,9 10,7 15,5 15,5 15,7 16,3  Vinnytsia Oblast 10,8 11,4 11,0 10,7 15,6 15,4 15,5 16,1  Kirovohrad Oblast 10,7 11,1 10,6 10,4 16,7 16,5 16,6 17,3  Zaporizhia Oblast 10,2 10,7 10,1 10,0 14,7 14,8 15,1 15,9  Poltava Oblast 9,8 10,1 9,6 9,5 16,6 16,4 16,5 17,4  Kharkiv Oblast 9,8 10,0 9,6 9,6 14,4 14,6 14,7 15,3  Cherkasy Oblast 9,6 10,2 9,7 9,7 16,2 16,2 16,3 16,9  Donetsk Oblast 9,4 9,9 9,5 9,3 15,8 16,0 16,1 16,7  Chernihiv Oblast 9,3 9,5 9,2 9,1 18,6 18,6 18,5 19,5  Luhansk Oblast 9,2 9,7 9,3 9,1 15,9 16,1 16,4 17,0  Sumy Oblast 9,2 9,7 9,0 8,8 16,8 16,5 16,3 17,2 Year in review 2012 Compared to 2011, amount of attrition decreased by 19,558 persons, or 3.5 to 3.1 persons per 1000 inhabitants real. Natural decrease was observed in 21 oblasts of the country, while natural increases were recorded only in the capital Kiev, Zakarpattya, Rivne, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi oblast (respectively 6047, 4155, 4014, 1636, 300 and 271 people). Some regions registered a low natural decline, such as Sevastopol, Lviv, Crimea, Ternopil, Odessa and Kherson (respectively, -668, -1447, -2243, -2636, -2716 and -3261 people). The largest declines were recorded in Donetsk, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Poltava (respectively -27657, -14573, -14399, -12886, -9986 and -9588), regions which have in common a low birth rate and high mortality of a large urban population and a strong rural population aging. Age structure 0–14 years: 14.6% = 6,620,598 15–64 years: 70.2% = 31,846,776 65 years and over: 15.2% = 6,905,318 (2013 official.) Median age total: 39.7 years male: 39.5 years female: 40.1 years (2013 official.) total: 34.8 years male: 31.9 years female: 37.7 years (1989 official.) Net migration rate 0.3 migrant(s)/1,002 population (2008)[11] Sex ratio at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female 15–64 years: 0.92 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.51 male(s)/female total population: 0.8375 male(s)/female (2008 est.) Infant mortality rate 9.1 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 4564 death. (2010) 9.0 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 4511 death. (2011) 8.4 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 4371 deaths. (2012) 8.9 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 2193 death for January–June 2011 8.6 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 2190 death for January–June 2012 7.8 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 1993 deaths for January–June 2013[12] Infant mortality by oblast Death/2012 Death/2011 Death/2010 Death/2009  Donetsk Oblast 540 473 497 533  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 370 343 347 329  Odessa Oblast 267 268 263 280 Kyiv City 262 255 233 244  Lviv Oblast 233 272 266 238 Autonomous Republic of Crimea 215 213 205 210  Kharkiv Oblast 203 234 243 252  Zakarpattia Oblast 168 195 199 238  Vinnytsia Oblast 166 186 148 149  Luhansk Oblast 165 188 199 252  Zaporizhia Oblast 154 169 182 174  Rivne Oblast 147 156 158 164  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 134 89 109 174  Zhytomyr Oblast 124 134 135 127  Cherkasy Oblast 122 101 125 132  Kiev Oblast 119 143 140 146  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 109 145 170 157  Volyn Oblast 106 116 123 118  Kirovohrad Oblast 103 139 112 119  Kherson Oblast 100 120 116 136  Mykolaiv Oblast 97 97 104 112  Ternopil Oblast 97 96 98 93  Chernihiv Oblast 94 80 82 103  Chernivtsi Oblast 92 96 90 91  Poltava Oblast 85 86 87 105  Sumy Oblast 76 78 97 91 Sevastopol City 23 39 36 34 Infant mortality per 1000 by Oblast Death/2012 Death/2011 Death/2010 Death/2009  Donetsk Oblast 12,7 11,4 12,0 12,3  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 10,0 9,5 9,7 8,8  Cherkasy Oblast 9,6 8,1 10,0 10,5  Kirovohrad Oblast 9,4 13,2 10,6 10,9  Chernihiv Oblast 9,2 7,9 8,1 9,9  Vinnytsia Oblast 9,1 10,4 8,4 8,3  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 9,0 6,2 7,5 11,8  Zakarpattia Oblast 8,9 10,6 10,9 13,1  Odessa Oblast 8,8 9,2 9,2 9,7 Autonomous Republic of Crimea 8,8 9,1 8,8 8,9  Zaporizhia Oblast 8,2 9,3 10,1 9,4  Rivne Oblast 8,1 8,9 9,2 9,4  Kherson Oblast 8,0 9,9 9,4 11,0  Zhytomyr Oblast 8,0 8,9 9,1 8,5  Chernivtsi Oblast 8,0 8,5 8,2 8,2  Ternopil Oblast 8,0 8,0 8,2 7,5  Lviv Oblast 7,8 9,4 9,2 8,0 Kyiv City 7,8 8,0 7,3 7,5  Luhansk Oblast 7,6 8,8 9,4 11,6  Kharkiv Oblast 7,5 8,9 9,2 9,3  Mykolaiv Oblast 7,3 7,5 8,1 8,5  Volyn Oblast 7,0 7,9 8,2 7,7  Sumy Oblast 6,9 7,5 9,3 8,5  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 6,4 8,8 10,3 9,1  Poltava Oblast 5,8 6,1 6,1 7,1  Kiev Oblast 5,7 7,2 7,0 7,1 Sevastopol City 5,1 9,2 8,6 8,0 Life expectancy at birth Life expectancy at birth in Ukraine by oblast in 2012 total population: 71.15= years male: 66.11= years female: 76.02= years (2012 official.) Total fertility rate 6.00 children born/woman (1913 est.) 5.39 children born/woman (1925 est.) 1,08 children born/woman (2001) 1.46 children born/woman (2011) 1.53 children born/woman (2012) In 2001 Ukraine recorded the lowest fertility rate ever recorded in Europe for an independent country: 1.08 child/woman. During this year the number of children born was less than half of that born in 1987. Lower rates were recorded only in former East Germany, which registered 0.77 child/woman in 1994, as well as Taiwan (from 2008 to 2010), and both Hong Kong and Macau (from about 2000 to 2010). After neglect by the Kuchma administration, both the Yushchenko and the Yanukovych governments have made increasing the birth rate a priority. Birth data by oblast Number of birth by oblast Birth/2012 Birth/2011 Birth/2010 Birth/2009 Death/2012 Death/2011 Death/2010 Death/2009  Donetsk Oblast 42839 41720 41528 43374 70496 71042 73916 75252  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 37087 36116 35593 37309 51486 52106 54542 54973 Kyiv City 33887 32068 32082 32488 27840 27050 28625 28292  Odessa Oblast 30384 29225 28690 28986 33648 33688 36144 35859  Lviv Oblast 30220 28904 28651 30079 31667 31162 31644 32848  Kharkiv Oblast 27244 26317 26286 27226 40130 40079 42106 42544 Autonomous Republic of Crimea 24702 23394 23238 23524 26945 27539 28475 28501  Luhansk Oblast 21743 21320 20969 21671 36316 37256 38921 39226  Kiev Oblast 20966 20083 19737 20616 27161 26847 28406 28869  Zakarpattia Oblast 18968 18460 18301 18219 14813 14588 14947 15587  Zaporizhia Oblast 18882 18198 18018 18409 26406 27033 28553 28154  Vinnytsia Oblast 18339 17894 17508 18053 25158 25376 26528 26873  Rivne Oblast 18316 17697 17074 17544 14302 14168 14997 15415  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 17101 16497 16343 17333 16801 16657 17521 17565  Zhytomyr Oblast 15486 15154 14678 15108 20685 20417 21227 21971  Volyn Oblast 15346 14620 14848 15290 13710 13842 14362 14628  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 14881 14492 14414 14690 20362 20116 20842 21766  Poltava Oblast 14635 14167 14250 14755 24223 24384 26113 26807  Mykolaiv Oblast 13515 13029 12831 13093 17277 17441 18700 18698  Cherkasy Oblast 12798 12473 12462 12594 20667 20848 21820 22001  Kherson Oblast 12643 12085 12388 12323 15904 15828 16432 16883  Ternopil Oblast 12202 11964 11872 12404 14838 14829 15616 15652  Chernivtsi Oblast 11592 11281 11032 11050 11321 11192 11761 11665  Sumy Oblast 11093 10473 10360 10681 19002 18833 20146 21160  Kirovohrad Oblast 11029 10578 10531 10916 16521 16697 17652 17793  Chernihiv Oblast 10222 10134 10091 10534 20208 20179 21644 22232 Sevastopol City 4584 4252 4184 4257 5252 5391 5595 5526 Birth Rate by Oblast Birth/2012 Birth/2011 Birth/2010 Birth 2009 Death/2012 Death/2011 Death/2010 Death/2009  Rivne Oblast 15,9 15,3 14,8 15,2 12,4 12,3 13,0 13,4  Zakarpattia Oblast 15,1 14,8 14,7 14,6 11,8 11,7 12,0 12,5  Volyn Oblast 14,8 14,1 14,3 14,7 13,2 13,3 13,8 14,1  Chernivtsi Oblast 12,8 12,5 12,2 12,2 12,5 12,4 13,0 12,9  Odessa Oblast 12,7 12,2 12,0 12,1 14,1 14,1 15,1 15,0 Autonomous Republic of Crimea 12,6 11,9 11,8 12,0 13,7 14,0 14,5 14,5  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 12,4 12,0 11,8 12,5 12,2 12,1 12,7 12,7  Zhytomyr Oblast 12,2 11,9 11,5 11,7 16,3 16,0 16,6 17,0  Kiev Oblast 12,2 11,7 11,5 12,0 15,8 15,6 16,5 16,7 Kyiv City 12,0 11,4 11,5 11,7 9,8 9,6 10,3 10,2 Sevastopol City 12,0 11,1 11,0 11,2 13,7 14,1 14,7 14,5  Lviv Oblast 11,9 11,4 11,2 11,8 12,5 12,3 12,8 12,9  Kherson Oblast 11,7 11,1 11,4 11,2 14,7 14,6 15,1 15,4  Mykolaiv Oblast 11,5 11,0 10,8 11,0 14,7 14,8 15,8 15,7  Ternopil Oblast 11,3 11,1 10,9 11,4 13,8 13,7 14,4 14,4  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 11,3 11,0 10,8 11,0 15,5 15,2 15,6 16,3  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 11,2 10,9 10,6 11,1 15,5 15,7 16,3 16,3  Vinnytsia Oblast 11,2 10,9 10,6 10,9 15,4 15,5 16,1 16,2  Kirovohrad Oblast 11,0 10,5 10,4 10,7 16,5 16,6 17,4 17,4  Zaporizhia Oblast 10,6 10,1 10,0 10,1 14,8 15,0 15,8 15,5  Cherkasy Oblast 10,0 9,8 9,7 9,7 16,2 16,3 16,9 16,9  Kharkiv Oblast 9,9 9,6 9,5 9,8 14,6 14,6 15,2 15,3  Poltava Oblast 9,9 9,5 9,5 9,8 16,4 16,4 17,5 17,8  Donetsk Oblast 9,8 9,5 9,3 9,7 16,1 16,1 16,6 16,8  Sumy Oblast 9,7 9,1 8,9 9,1 16,6 16,3 17,3 18,0  Luhansk Oblast 9,6 9,3 9,1 9,3 16,0 16,3 16,9 16,9  Chernihiv Oblast 9,4 9,3 9,1 9,4 18,6 18,5 19,6 19,9 Total Fertility Rate by oblast Fertility rate in Ukraine by oblast in 2011 Although none of the oblasts in 2012 has recorded a higher fertility rate 2.10 children per woman. However, the rate has been in rural areas in the Rivne Oblast (2.65), Volyn Oblast (2.30) and the Odessa Oblast (2.14). While a very close generational renewal rate was achieved in the Zakarpattia Oblast (2.01), Mykolaiv Oblast (1.98), Zhytomyr Oblast (1.96) and Chernivtsi Oblast (1.95) weaker when they have been recorded in the Luhansk oblast (1.49), Sumy oblast (1.54) and Donetsk Oblast (1,60). The fertility rate of the highest urban areas were recorded in the Zakarpattia Oblast (1.85), the city of Sevastopol (1.62) and the Volyn Oblast (1,61). The lowest rates were recorded in the Kharkiv Oblast (1.25), Chernihiv Oblast (1.27), Chernivtsi Oblast (1.28), Poltava oblast (1.28), Sumy oblast (1.28), Cherkasy oblast (1.30), Luhansk oblast (1.31) and Donetsk Oblast (1,32). Children Born Per Woman by Oblast Total Fertility Rate/2012 Total Fertility Rate/2011 Total Fertility Rate/2010 Total Fertility Rate/2009  Rivne Oblast 2,08 1,99 1,93 1,92  Zakarpattia Oblast 1,95 1,90 1,83 1,83  Volyn Oblast 1,92 1,81 1,85 1,88  Zhytomyr Oblast 1,71 1,65 1,61 1,60  Odessa Oblast 1,71 1,62 1,58 1,58 Autonomous Republic of Crimea 1,68 1,56 1,55 1,55  Kiev Oblast 1,67 1,58 1,58 1,59  Chernivtsi Oblast 1,64 1,58 1,53 1,53  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1,63 1,55 1,58 1,60  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 1,62 1,56 1,55 1,56 Sevastopol City 1,62 1,47 1,45 1,45  Kherson Oblast 1,61 1,51 1,51 1,50  Kirovohrad Oblast 1,61 1,51 1,50 1,49  Vinnytsia Oblast 1,59 1,53 1,50 1,51  Lviv Oblast 1,58 1,49 1,50 1,51  Mykolaiv Oblast 1,57 1,47 1,44 1,45  Ukraine 1,53 1,46 1,45 1,46  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 1,52 1,44 1,43 1,45  Ternopil Oblast 1,50 1,45 1,46 1,48  Zaporizhia Oblast 1,46 1,37 1,34 1,36  Cherkasy Oblast 1,43 1,37 1,36 1,35  Poltava Oblast 1,41 1,33 1,34 1,35  Chernihiv Oblast 1,40 1,36 1,36 1,34 Kyiv City 1,38 1,29 1,30 1,30  Sumy Oblast 1,36 1,25 1,23 1,24  Donetsk Oblast 1,34 1,27 1,26 1,29  Luhansk Oblast 1,33 1,27 1,23 1,25  Kharkiv Oblast 1,32 1,25 1,24 1,25 Statistic rate of regional capitals Birth rate in regional centers Birth/2012 Birth/2011 Birth/2010 Birth/2009 Birth/2007 Birth/2005 Birth/2003 Simferopol 13,6 12,8 11,8 11,8 11,0 9,5 9,2 Lutsk 12,6 12,3 12,6 13,9 12,6 11,7 10,0 Rivne 12,6 12,0 11,8 12,3 10,9 10,1 9,4 Uzhhorod 12,1 11,9 12,0 12,4 12,8 12,6 10,8 Kiev 12,0 11,4 11,5 11,7 10,4 9,8 8,8 Khmelnytskyi 12,0 11,2 11,8 11,5 10,4 10,2 9,2 Sevastopol 12,0 11,1 11,0 11,2 10,5 9,6 8,7 Kherson 11,9 11,1 10,1 10,5 9,6 8,6 8,5 Ternopil 11,8 12,2 11,7 12,3 11,9 11,6 10,4 Ivano-Frankivsk 11,6 11,6 10,1 10,8 11,3 10,7 9,3 Vinnytsia 11,5 11,2 10,9 11,1 10,1 9,4 9,1 Kirovohrad 11,5 11,1 10,5 11,3 10,5 8,9 8,4 Zhytomyr 11,4 11,5 10,8 11,7 10,6 9,5 8,7 } Sumy 11,3 10,3 10,0 10,3 9,6 8,2 7,8 Lviv 11,0 10,4 10,0 10,5 9,7 9,3 9,0 Ukraine Urban 10,9 10,5 10,4 10,8 9,9 8,9 8,3 Dnipropetrovsk 10,5 10,2 10,0 10,5 9,4 8,5 7,9 Luhansk 10,5 9,8 8,8 9,2 8,2 7,4 6,8 Chernivtsi 10,2 10,3 10,1 10,2 9,2 9,6 8,3 Odessa 10,1 9,8 9,6 9,9 9,0 8,3 7,5 Cherkassy 9,9 9,4 9,4 9,4 8,7 7,8 7,4 Poltava 9,9 9,1 8,8 9,7 8,4 7,8 7,3 Zaporizhia 9,5 9,2 9,2 9,3 8,9 8,2 7,5 Mykolaiv 9,4 9,3 9,1 9,4 8,7 8,0 7,9 Chernihiv 9,3 9,2 9,1 9,6 8,4 8,0 7,6 Kharkiv 9,2 8,9 8,8 9,2 8,4 7,6 7,1 Donetsk 9,1 8,7 8,6 9,0 8,2 7,5 6,6 Death rate in regional centers Death/2012 Death/2011 Death/2010 Death/2009 Death/2007 Death/2005 Death/2003 Kherson 15,2 15,6 14,0 14,2 14,9 14,8 14,5 Luhansk 14,2 14,3 13,6 13,4 13,8 14,2 14,1 Simferopol 14,0 14,8 13,6 13,8 15,3 15,3 15,2 Sevastopol 13,7 14,1 14,7 14,5 15,5 15,4 14,1 Kirovohrad 13,7 13,7 13,8 14,0 14,4 14,1 14,1 Dnipropetrovsk 13,5 13,7 14,1 13,8 15,1 15,1 16,0 Donetsk 13,4 13,5 14,0 13,9 15,2 15,4 14,7 Zaporizhia 13,2 13,4 14,2 13,8 15,0 14,7 14,2 Ukraine Urban 13,1 13,1 13,7 13,7 14,7 14,8 14,3 Mykolaiv 12,8 12,8 13,8 13,8 14,5 14,5 14,9 Poltava 12,8 12,6 13,2 13,0 13,7 13,6 13,6 Sumy 12,1 11,9 12,4 12,6 13,0 13,1 11,9 Kharkiv 12,0 11,8 12,4 12,2 13,1 13,1 13,0 Odessa 11,9 12,2 13,0 12,5 13,9 14,1 14,0 Cherkassy 11,2 10,7 11,3 11,2 11,7 11,7 11,0 Chernihiv 11,4 11,1 12,0 11,8 12,5 12,4 12,0 Lviv 11,0 10,8 10,5 10,8 11,5 11,4 11,5 Zhytomyr 10,7 10,9 11,2 11,1 12,0 12,2 11,4 Uzhhorod 10,3 10,2 10,5 11,3 12,0 12,4 10,3 Kiev 9,8 9,6 10,3 10,2 11,4 11,2 10,7 Lutsk 9,6 9,4 9,6 9,1 10,4 10,2 10,5 Chernivtsi 9,5 9,4 9,9 10,3 11,0 11,0 10,8 Khmelnytskyi 9,4 8,8 9,0 9,5 9,8 9,8 9,2 Vinnytsia 9,1 9,0 9,2 9,2 10,2 10,2 10,0 Ivano-Frankivsk 9,1 8,7 8,2 8,5 9,1 9,3 9,3 Ternopil 8,1 7,6 8,1 7,7 8,5 8,5 7,7 Rivne 7,9 7,8 8,7 8,6 9,0 9,2 8,8 HIV/AIDS Main article: HIV/AIDS in Ukraine adult prevalence rate 1.46% (2006 est.)[13] people living with HIV/AIDS 377,600 (2006 est.)[13] deaths 20,000 (2003 est.) Nationality noun: Ukrainian(s) adjective: Ukrainian Religions Main article: Religion in Ukraine Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy 39.8%, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) 29.4%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 14.1%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 2.8%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, Protestant 2.4%, Islam 0.6%, Jewish 0.2%, other 2% (2008 est.)[14] Languages Main article: Languages of Ukraine Most commons native languages in urban and rural councils according to 2001 census (blue - Ukrainian, red - Russian, green - Romanian and Moldovan, teal - crimean tatar, orange - Hungarian, purple - Bulgarian, yellow - gagauz, cyan - polish, light orange - Albanian) Most commons native languages in raion and biggest cities according to 2001 census (orange - Ukrainian, blue - Russian, dark green - Romanian, purple - Hungarian, light green - Moldovan, pink - Bulgarian) Ukrainian 67%, Russian 30%, Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian-, Romanian Moldovan-, Polish-, Hungarian-, Rusyn-speaking minorities and small remnants of a Yiddish speaking group among the local Jews. The below table gives the total population of various ethnic groups in Ukraine and the primary language, according to the 2000 census.[7] Group Pop Native Ukrainian Russian Other Ukrainians 37,541,693 31,970,728 x 5,544,729 532 Russians 8,334,141 7,993,832 328,152 x 402 Belarusians 275,763 54,573 48,202 172,251 x Moldovans 258,619 181,124 27,775 45,607 22 Crimean Tatars 248,193 228,373 184 15,208 43 Bulgarians 204,574 131,237 10,277 62,067 9 Hungarians 156,566 149,431 5,367 1,513 14 Romanians 150,989 138,522 9,367 2,297 4 Poles 144,130 18,660 102,268 22,495 390 Jews 103,591 3,213 13,924 85,964 16 Armenians 99,894 50,363 5,798 43,105 11 Greeks 91,548 5,829 4,359 80,992 9 Tatars 73,304 25,770 3,310 43,060 6 Romani people 47,587 21,266 10,039 6,378 6 Azerbaijanis 45,176 23,958 3,224 16,968 36 Georgians 34,199 12,539 2,818 18,589 15 Germans 33,302 4,056 7,360 21,549 20 Gagauzs 31,923 22,822 1,102 7,232 2 Koreans 12,711 2,223 700 9,662 0 Uzbeks 12,353 3,604 1,818 5,996 0 Chuvash 10,593 2,268 564 7,636 1 Mordvinians 9,331 1,473 646 7,168 0 Turks 8,844 7,923 133 567 0 Lithuanians 7,207 1,932 1,029 4,182 4 Arabs 6,575 4,071 897 1,235 0 Slovaks 6,397 2,633 2,665 335 0 Czechs 5,917 1,190 2,503 2,144 2 Kazakhs 5,526 1,041 822 3,470 11 Latvians 5,079 957 872 3,188 1 Ossetians 4,834 1,150 401 3,110 4 Udmurts 4,712 729 380 3,515 0 Lezghinians 4,349 1,507 330 2,341 4 Tadjiks 4,255 1,521 488 1,983 0 Bashkirs 4,253 843 336 2,920 0 Mari people 4,130 1,059 264 2,758 7 Thai 3,850 3,641 29 164 0 Turkmens 3,709 719 1,079 1,392 0 Albanians 3,308 1,740 301 1,181 0 Assyrians 3,143 883 408 1,730 0 Chechens 2,877 1,581 212 977 0 Estonians 2,868 416 321 2,107 4 Chinese people 2,213 1,817 73 307 0 Kurds 2,088 1,173 236 396 0 Darghins 1,610 409 199 955 0 Komis 1,545 330 127 1,046 0 Karelians 1,522 96 145 1,244 1 Avars 1,496 582 121 761 0 Indo-Pakistanis 1,483 1,092 26 192 0 Abkhazians 1,458 317 268 797 0 Karaites 1,196 72 160 931 0 Komi-Permians 1,165 160 79 898 1 Kyrgyz people 1,128 208 221 617 19 Laks 1,019 199 271 514 13 Afghanis 1,008 551 60 213 0 other 3,228 1,027 144 790 0 NA 188,639 0 1,108 1,844 1 Native languages according to 2001 census Ukrainian Russian Romanian and Moldovan Crimean-tatar Bulgarian Hungarian Literacy definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.3% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2001 census) Regional differences Regional differences in population change Natural population growth rates by oblast (2009) Between the Soviet census of 1989 and the Ukrainian census of 2001, Ukraine's population declined from 51,706,600 to 48,457,020,[15] a loss of 2,926,700 people or 5.7% of the 1989 population. However, this trend has been quite uneven and varied regionally. Two regions in western Ukraine — Rivne and Zakarpattia, saw slight population increases of .3% and .5% respectively. A third western Ukrainian region, Volyn, lost less than .1% of its population between 1989 and 2001.[15] Collectively, between 1989 and 2001 the seven westernmost regions of Ukraine lost 167,500 people or 1.7% of their 1989 population. The total population of these regions in 2001 was 9,593,800.[15] Between 1989 and 2001, the population of Kiev City increased by .3% [15] due to positive net-migration.[citation needed] Outside the capital, the central, southern and eastern regions experienced a severe decline in population. Between 1989 and 2001, the Donetsk region lost 491,300 people or 9.2% of its 1989 population, and neighbouring Luhansk region lost 11% of its population.[15] Chernihiv region, in central Ukraine northeast of Kiev, lost 170,600 people or 12% of its 1989 population, the highest percentage loss in of any region in Ukraine. In southern Ukraine, Odessa region lost 173,600 people, or 6.6% of its 1989 population. By 2001, Crimea's population declined by 29,900 people, representing only 1.4% of the 1989 population.[15] However, this was due to the influx of approximately 200,000 Crimean Tatars – a number equivalent to approximately 10% of Crimea's 1989 population - who arrived in Crimea after 1989 and whose population in that region increased by a factor of 6.4 from 38,000 to 243,400 between 1989 and 2001.[16] Collectively, the net population loss in the regions of Ukraine outside the westernmost regions was 2,759,200 people or 6.6% of the 1989 population. The total population of these regions in 2001 was 39,186,100.[15] Thus, from 1989–2001 the pattern of population change was one of slight growth in Kiev, slight declines in western Ukraine, large declines in eastern, central and southern Ukraine and slight decline in Crimea due to a large influx of Crimean Tatars. Natural population growth All population, 2012 Urban population, 2009 Rural population, 2009 Regional differences in birth and fertility rates Birth rate in Ukraine, 2003 Birth rate in Ukraine, 2010 Ukraine's total fertility rate is one of the lowest in Europe.[17][18] However, significant 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.[19] Volyn's birthrate is higher than the average birth rate of any European country with the exceptions of Iceland and Albania.[20] In 2007, for the first time since 1990, five Ukrainian regions (Zakarpattia Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Lviv Oblast, and Kiev Oblast) experienced more births than deaths.[21] This demonstrates a positive trend of increasing birthrates in the last couple of years throughout Ukraine. The ratio of births to deaths in those regions in 2007 was 119%, 117%, 110%, 100.7%, and 108%, respectively.[21] With the exception of Kiev region, all of the regions with more births than deaths were in the less industrially developed regions of western Ukraine. According to a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Justice, the overall ratio of births to deaths in Ukraine had improved from 1 to 1.7 in 2004-2005 to 1 to 1.4 in 2008. However, the worst birth to death ratios in the country were in the eastern and central oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherkasy and Poltava. In these regions, for every birth there were 2.1 deaths.[22] Notably, western Ukraine never experienced the Holodomor, as Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania ruled it at the time, helping to explain the better demographics there, as the rural population was never devastated. Abortion behavior in the North, South, East and Center regions of Ukraine are relatively homogeneous while the Western region differs greatly. Overall, the abortion rate in western Ukraine is three times lower than in other regions; however this is not due to an increased use of modern contraceptive methods in the West, but simply due to the fact that pregnant women in the Western regions are more likely to keep their babies.[23] Donetsk and Dniproptrovsk oblasts in eastern and central Ukraine have the country's highest rate of abortions.[24] Regional differences and death rates and health Death rate in Ukraine 2010 Death rates also vary widely by region; Eastern and southern Ukraine have the highest death rates in the country, and the life expectancy for children born in Chernigov, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kirovograd, Lugansk, Nikolaev, and Odessa regions is 1.5 years lower than the national average.[25] Ukraine had a suicide rate of 29.6 per 100,000 population in 1998, a significant increase from the suicide rate of 19 per 100,000 in 1988. Suicides are more frequent in the industrially developed regions and in the rural areas of the country than in the cities; In western Ukraine, the suicide rate was lower than the national average at 11.1 per 100,000.[26] The Southern and eastern Ukrainian regions also suffer from the highest rates of HIV and AIDS, which impacts life expectancy. In late 2000, 60% of all AIDS cases in Ukraine were concentrated in the Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk regions.[27] A major reason for this is the fact that the urbanized and industrialized regions in the East and South of Ukraine suffered most from the economic crisis in the 90s, which in turn led to the spread of unemployment, alcoholism, and drug abuse, thus setting the conditions for wider spread of the epidemic.[28] Regional differences in income In terms of income, the rural western and central regions of Ukraine are the poorest while Kiev and the industrialized eastern regions of Ukraine are the wealthiest. In December 2010 the average monthly income in Ukraine was 2629 hryvnias. The poorest regions in Ukraine, Volyn and Chernihiv, had monthly incomes of 1995 and 1951 hryvnias, respectively. In contrast, the monthly income in the city of Kiev was 4174 hryvnias per month, the city of Sevastopol 2712 hryvnias per month, and in Kiev region was 2647 per month. Outside of the capital and the city of Sevastopol, the wealthiest regions were Donetsk and Luhansk, whose monthly incomes were 2654 and 2631 hryvnias per month, respectively.[29] In terms of poverty rates, the western and southern regions of Ukraine (particularly rural areas within those regions) have the country's highest poverty rates while Ukraine's eastern regions have the lowest poverty rates. In 2001, 39 percent of Ukraine's population could be defined as poor when the World Bank's poverty threshold of a dollar per day per capita was used. According to these standards, 49 percent of rural western Ukrainians and 45 percent of urban western Ukrainians were poor. In southern Ukraine, the percentages of poor were 51 and 40 percent, respectively. In contrast, 35% of urban and rural Ukrainians were poor based on per capita income less than one dollar per day in the regions of Eastern Ukraine. When povery was measured according to the percentage of the population who spent 80% or more of their income on food, regional differences shrank somewhat. In the western regions of Ukraine, 28 percent of rural residents and 9 percent of urban residents spent 80% of their income or more on food. In Ukraine's eastern regions, 19 percent of rural and 11 percent of urban residents spent 80% or more of their income on food.[30] Urbanization Urbabization rate, 2011 Population density, 2011 Medium population of rural settlements, 2011 Migration Migration growth rate in 2012 (per 1000) 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 Italy, Portugal, Spain, 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. Between 1991 and 2004, the government counted 2,537,400 individuals who emigrated; 1,897,500 moved to other post-Soviet states, and 639,900 moved to other, mainly Western, states.[31] By the early 2000s, Ukrainian embassies reported that 300,000 Ukrainian citizens were 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, 20,000 in the United States and small significant numbers in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. 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. Excluding the Russian Federation, Portugal and the Czech Republic have the highest rate of Ukrainian emigrants as a proportion of the native population, while the much larger Italy has the largest absolute confirmed number of Ukrainian emigrants (leaving aside Poland, for which there is conflicting data). See also Health in Ukraine Aging of Europe Demographic history of Crimea Ethnic groups in Ukraine v t e Ukraine topics History Chronology East Slavs Kuyavia Kievan Rus' Mongol invasion Galicia–Volhynia Grand Duchy of Lithuania Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack era Imperial Russia Austrian Galicia After the Russian Revolution People's Republic West Ukrainian National Republic Ukrainian SSR Chernobyl disaster Independence Orange Revolution Euromaidan By topic Christianity Economic Military Geography Biosphere Reserves Seven Natural Wonders of Ukraine Cities Rivers Subdivisions by area by population by income Raions Urban-type settlements Politics Constitution Government President Foreign relations Military Political parties Elections Judicial system Law Law enforcement Human rights Economy Hryvnia (currency) National Bank Stock exchanges UX PFTS index Antonov aicraft manufacturer Telecommunications Internet Tourism Transport Ukrainian Railways Automobile roads Society Languages Religion Education Health Crime Culture Vyshyvanka Pysanka Literature Taras Shevchenko Dance Architecture Seven Wonders of Ukraine Cinema Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Gogolfest festival Cuisine wine Borshch Holidays Media television Music Sport Demographics Ukrainian people Rus' people diaspora Censuses 2001 Outline Book Category Portal WikiProject References ↑ Population census of Ukraine, 2001 ↑ http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/ ↑ Ukraine, Orest Subtelny, page 152, 2000 ↑ Brief description of Zenon Kuzela (Kuzelya) (English) ↑ Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia Vol. 1, Book by Volodymyr Kubiyovych; University of Toronto Press, 1963 ↑ Posted availability of the book ↑ 7.0 7.1 Population census 2001: Population by nationality ↑ United Nations. 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