The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989. [1] [2] The next Ukrainian census was planned to be held in 2011 but has been repeatedly postponed. [1] [3]
The total population recorded in 2001 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.
There were 454 cities: Nine had a population over 500,000. The census recorded over 130 nationalities.
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 |
Kyiv 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 |
Odesa 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 |
Kyiv (city) | 2611.3 | 2602.8 | 100 |
Sevastopol (city) | 379.5 | 395.0 | 96 |
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 |
Kyiv 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 |
Odesa 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 |
Kyiv (city) | 2611.3 | - | 100 | - |
Sevastopol (city) | 358.1 | 21.4 | 94 | 6 |
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 |
Kyiv 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 |
Odesa 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 |
Kyiv (city) | 1218.7 | 1392.7 | 47 | 53 |
Sevastopol (city) | 173.5 | 206.0 | 46 | 54 |
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 |
Moldovans | 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 |
Gypsies | 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 |
Gagauz | 31.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 99.9 |
Other | 177.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 83.9 |
Note: listed are those nationalities which comprise more than 0.1% of regional population. Numbers are given in thousands.
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