Ukrainian Census (2001)
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]
The total actual population recorded was 48,457,100 persons, of which 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.
There were 454 cities nine of them with population over 500,000. The census recorded over 130 nationalities.
The next Ukrainian census is planned to be held in 2020.[1]
Actual population by regions
Region | Population, 2001 (thousands) | Population, 1989 (thousands) | Change (percent) |
---|---|---|---|
Cherkasy region | 1402.9 | 1531.5 | 92 |
Chernihiv region | 1245.3 | 1415.9 | 88 |
Chernivtsi region | 922.8 | 938.0 | 98 |
Dnipropetrovs'k region | 3567.6 | 3881.2 | 92 |
Donets'k region | 4841.1 | 5332.4 | 91 |
Ivano-Frankivs'k region | 1409.8 | 1423.5 | 99 |
Kharkiv region | 2914.2 | 3195.0 | 91 |
Kherson region | 1175.1 | 1240.0 | 95 |
Khmel'nyts'kyi region | 1430.8 | 1527.1 | 94 |
Kirovohrad region | 1133.1 | 1239.4 | 91 |
Kiev region | 1827.9 | 1940.0 | 94 |
Luhans'k region | 2546.2 | 2862.7 | 89 |
L'viv region | 2626.5 | 2747.7 | 94 |
Mykolaiv region | 1264.7 | 1330.6 | 95 |
Odessa region | 2469.0 | 2642.6 | 93 |
Poltava region | 1630.1 | 1753.0 | 93 |
Rivne region | 1173.3 | 1169.7 | 100 |
Sumy region | 1299.7 | 1432.7 | 91 |
Ternopil’ region | 1142.4 | 1168.9 | 98 |
Vinnytsia region | 1772.4 | 1932.6 | 92 |
Volyn' region | 1060.7 | 1061.2 | 100 |
Zakarpattia region | 1258.3 | 1252.3 | 100 |
Zaporizhzhia region | 1929.2 | 2081.8 | 93 |
Zhytomyr region | 1389.5 | 1545.4 | 90 |
Kiev (city) | 2611.3 | 2602.8 | 100 |
Urban and rural population by regions
Region | Urban Population (thousands) | Rural Population (thousands) | Urban Population (percent) | Rural Population (percent) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cherkasy region | 753.6 | 649.3 | 54 | 46 |
Chernihiv region | 727.2 | 518.1 | 58 | 42 |
Chernivtsi region | 373.5 | 549.3 | 40 | 60 |
Dnipropetrovs'k region | 2960.3 | 607.3 | 83 | 17 |
Donets'k region | 4363.6 | 477.5 | 90 | 10 |
Ivano-Frankivs'k region | 593.0 | 816.8 | 42 | 58 |
Kharkiv region | 2288.7 | 625.5 | 79 | 21 |
Kherson region | 706.2 | 468.9 | 60 | 40 |
Khmel'nyts'kyi region | 729.6 | 701.2 | 51 | 49 |
Kirovohrad region | 682.0 | 451.1 | 60 | 40 |
Kiev region | 1053.5 | 774.4 | 58 | 42 |
Luhans'k region | 2190.8 | 355.4 | 86 | 14 |
Lviv region | 1558.7 | 1067.8 | 59 | 41 |
Mykolaiv region | 838.8 | 425.9 | 66 | 34 |
Odessa region | 1624.6 | 844.4 | 66 | 34 |
Poltava region | 956.8 | 673.3 | 59 | 41 |
Rivne region | 549.7 | 623.6 | 47 | 53 |
Sumy region | 842.9 | 456.8 | 65 | 35 |
Ternopil' region | 485.6 | 656.8 | 43 | 57 |
Vinnytsia region | 818.9 | 953.5 | 46 | 54 |
Volyn' region | 533.2 | 527.5 | 50 | 50 |
Zakarpattia region | 466.0 | 792.3 | 37 | 63 |
Zaporizhzhia region | 1458.2 | 471.0 | 76 | 24 |
Zhytomyr region | 775.4 | 614.1 | 56 | 44 |
Kiev (city) | 2611.3 | - | 100 | - |
- Source: Urban and rural population. 2001 Ukrainian Population Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
Gender structure by regions
Region | Male (thousands) | Female (thousands) | Male (percent) | Female (percent) |
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Cherkasy region | 638.8 | 764.2 | 46 | 54 |
Chernihiv region | 565.5 | 679.7 | 45 | 55 |
Chernivtsi region | 432.1 | 490.7 | 47 | 53 |
Dnipropetrovs'k region | 1643.3 | 1924.3 | 46 | 54 |
Donets'k region | 2219.9 | 2621.2 | 46 | 54 |
Ivano-Frankivs'k region | 665.2 | 744.5 | 47 | 53 |
Kharkiv region | 1339.5 | 1574.7 | 46 | 54 |
Kherson region | 548.5 | 626.6 | 47 | 53 |
Khmel'nyts'kyi region | 659.9 | 770.8 | 46 | 54 |
Kirovohrad region | 520.8 | 612.2 | 46 | 54 |
Kiev region | 845.9 | 982.0 | 46 | 54 |
Luhans'k region | 1169.9 | 1376.3 | 46 | 54 |
L'viv region | 1245.1 | 1381.4 | 47 | 53 |
Mykolaiv region | 588.2 | 676.6 | 47 | 53 |
Odessa region | 1155.4 | 1313.6 | 47 | 53 |
Poltava region | 747.4 | 882.7 | 46 | 54 |
Rivne region | 555.6 | 617.7 | 47 | 53 |
Sumy region | 593.8 | 705.9 | 46 | 54 |
Ternopil' region | 530.2 | 612.3 | 46 | 54 |
Vinnytsia region | 809.6 | 962.8 | 46 | 54 |
Volyn' region | 500.1 | 560.6 | 47 | 53 |
Zakarpattia region | 605.5 | 652.8 | 48 | 52 |
Zaporizhzhia region | 886.6 | 1042.6 | 46 | 54 |
Zhytomyr region | 644.8 | 744.7 | 46 | 54 |
Kiev (city) | 1218.7 | 1392.7 | 47 | 53 |
National structure
Region | Population, 2001 (thousands) | Population, 2001 (percent) | Population, 1989 (percent) | Change (percent) |
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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.
- Cherkasy region - 1,398.3 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,301.2 (93.1%)
- Russians - 75.6 (5.4%)
- Belarusians - 3.9 (0.3%)
- Chernihiv region - 1,236.1 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,155.4 (93.5%)
- Russians - 62.2 (5.0%)
- Belarusians - 7.1 (0.6%)
- Chernivtsi region - 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%)
- Dnipropetrovs'k region - 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%)
- Donets'k region - 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-Frankivs'k region - 1,406.1 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,371.2 (97.5%)
- Russians - 24.9 (1.8%)
- Kharkiv region - 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 region - 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%)
- Khmel'nyts'kyi region - 1,426.6 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,339.3 (93.9%)
- Russians - 50.7 (3.6%)
- Poles - 23.0 (1.6%)
- Kirovohrad region - 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 region - 1,821.1 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,684.8 (92.5%)
- Russians - 109.3 (6.0%)
- Belarusians - 8.6 (0.5%)
- Luhans'k region - 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%)
- L'viv region - 2,606.0 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 2,471.0 (94.8%)
- Russians - 92.6 (3.6%)
- Poles - 18.9 (0.7%)
- Mykolaiv region - 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%)
- Odesa region - 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 region - 1,621.2 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,481.1 (91.4%)
- Russians - 117.1 (7.2%)
- Belarusians - 6.3 (0.4%)
- Rivne region - 1,171.4 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,123.4 (95.9%)
- Russians - 30.1 (2.6%)
- Belarusians - 11.8 (1.0%)
- Sumy region - 1,296.8 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,152.0 (88.8%)
- Russians - 121.7 (9.4%)
- Belarusians - 4.3 (0.3%)
- Ternopil' region - 1,138.5 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,113.5 (97.8%)
- Russians - 14.2 (1.2%)
- Poles - 3.8 (0.3%)
- Vinnytsia region - 1,763.9 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,674.1 (94.9%)
- Russians - 67.5 (3.8%)
- Volyn' region - 1,057.2 (100%)
- Ukrainians - 1,025.0 (96.9%)
- Russians - 25.1 (2.4%)
- Belarusians - 3.2 (0.3%)
- Zakarpattia region - 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 region - 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 region - 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%)
See also
References
- 1 2 Ukrainian population census will be held in 2020 – Cabinet decree, Interfax-Ukraine (22 December 2015)
External links
- 2001 Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
- 2001 Census results. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
- (Ukrainian)/(Russian) How the Ukrainians will be counted, Zerkalo Nedeli (the Mirror Weekly), November 24–30, 2001, in Ukrainian, in Russian.
- Law of Ukraine "About the All-Ukrainian Census" (Ukrainian)
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