Demographics of Ukraine

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Demographics of Ukraine
Ukraine 2023 population pyramid.svg
Ukraine population pyramid on 1 January 2023, estimations by the United Nations Note: Data and estimations after February 2022 are subject to considerable correction due to the effects of the war, emigration and the inability of authorities to gather timely and reliable demographic data.
PopulationIncluding Russian occupied territory: 41,130,432 Decrease2.svg (State Statistics Service of Ukraine) [1]

Excluding Russian occupied territory: 36,744,636 Decrease2.svg (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs) [2]

29 million estimate in 2023

Contents

Decrease2.svg (UBN News)
Growth rate−6.6 Decrease2.svg people/1,000 population (2023)
Birth rate8.6 Increase2.svg births/1,000 population (2023)
Death rate15.2 Decrease Positive.svg deaths/1,000 population (2023)
Life expectancy71.76 years Increase2.svg (2018) [3]
  male57 Decrease2.svg years (2023 estimate)
  female76.72 Increase2.svg years
Fertility rate0.7 Decrease2.svg children born/woman (2023)
Infant mortality rate7.0 deaths/1,000 Decrease Positive.svg infants (2019) [3]
Net migration rate−5.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015)
Age structure
0–14 yearsIncrease2.svg 15.4%
15–64 yearsDecrease2.svg 68.4%
65 and overIncrease Negative.svg 16.2% (2017)
Sex ratio
At birth1.06 male(s)/female
Under 151.06 male(s)/female
15–64 years0.92 male(s)/female
65 and over0.51 male(s)/female
Nationality
Nationalitynoun: Ukrainian(s) adjective: Ukrainian
Major ethnic Ukrainians (77.8%) 2001
Minor ethnic Russians (17.3%) 2001, Other (4.9%) 2001
Language
Official Ukrainian
SpokenUkrainian, Russian, others
Animated population pyramid since 1989 Ukraine population pyramid.gif
Animated population pyramid since 1989
Population density in Ukraine by raion. Population density in Ukraine.png
Population density in Ukraine by raion.

According to the United Nations, Ukraine has a population of 36,744,636 as of 2023. [4] In July 2023, Reuters reported that due to the refugee outpouring into Western Europe, the population of Kyiv-controlled areas may have decreased to as low as 28 million. [5] This is a steep decline from 2020, when it had a population of almost 42 million people. [6] This is in large part due to the ongoing Ukrainian refugee crisis and loss of territory caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The most recent (and only) census of a post-Soviet Ukraine occurred over 20 years ago, in 2001. Thus, much of the information presented here could be inaccurate and/or outdated.

History

The majority of the historical information is sourced from Demoscope.ru. [7]

The territory of Ukraine has varied greatly in history. Western Ukraine, west of the Zbruch river, until 1939 was for most of the time part of the Kingdom of Galicia and later the Polish Republic. Detailed information for those territories is missing, for more information see Demographics of Poland. Crimea changed 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 in 1954 was brought under the administration of the Ukrainian SSR. The territory of Budjak (southern Bessarabia) became a part of the Ukrainian SSR in June 1940.

There were roughly four million Ukrainians at the end of the 17th century. [8]

The censuses of 1926 through 1989 were taken in the Ukrainian SSR. The census of 1897 is taken from the statistics of nine governorates that were in the territory of today's Ukraine. The statistics of the 1906 records are taken from www.statoids.com which provides a broad degree of historical explanation on the situation in Imperial Russia. The census statistics of 1931 were estimated by Professor Zenon Kuzela. [9] His calculations are as of 1 January 1931. The Encyclopedia of Ukraine mentions Kuzela as one of the only ethnographic sources available, due to a lack of an official census. [10] [11]

[nb 1]

Famines and migration

The famines of the 1930s, followed by the devastation of World War II, created a demographic disaster. Life expectancy at birth fell to a level as low as ten years for females and seven for males in 1933 and plateaued around 25 for females and 15 for males in the period 1941–44. [12] According to The Oxford companion to World War II, "Over 7 million inhabitants of Ukraine, more than one-sixth of the pre-war population, were killed during the Second World War." [13]

Ukrainian refugees entering Romania, 5 March 2022 MALTESER Ukrainehilfe (51926526000).jpg
Ukrainian refugees entering Romania, 5 March 2022

Significant migration took place in the first years of Ukrainian independence. More than one million people moved into Ukraine in 1991–92, mostly from the other former Soviet republics. In total, between 1991 and 2004, 2.2 million immigrated to Ukraine (of these, 2 million came from the other former Soviet Union states), and 2.5 million emigrated from Ukraine (of these, 1.9 million moved to other former Soviet Union republics). [14] As of 2015, immigrants constituted an estimated 11.4% of the total population, or 4.8 million people. [15] In 2006, there were an estimated 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian ancestry, [16] giving Canada the world's third-largest Ukrainian population behind Ukraine itself and Russia. There are also large Ukrainian diaspora communities in Russia, Poland, the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Argentina.

Since about 2015, there has been a growing number of Ukrainians working in the European Union, particularly Poland. Eurostat reported that 662,000 Ukrainians received EU residence permits in 2017, with 585,439 being to Poland. In 2019, World Bank statistics show that money remittances back to Ukraine have roughly doubled from 2015 to 2018, and are worth about 4% of GDP. [17] [18] The Ukrainian authorities only records its citizens who apply for foreign citizenship, not those who apply for foreign residency [19]

After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–present), eight million people fled during the ensuing Ukrainian refugee crisis (2022–present), Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Most have gone to Central Europe.

Population decline

Population of Ukraine from 1950 Population of Ukraine from 1950z.svg
Population of Ukraine from 1950
Ukraine's population pyramid from 2015 to 2030 estimations, showing the effects of the Russo-Ukraine War. Ukraine population pyramid from 2015 to 2030 estimations.gif
Ukraine's population pyramid from 2015 to 2030 estimations, showing the effects of the Russo-Ukraine War.

According to estimations of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the population of Ukraine (excluding Crimea) on 1 May 2021 was 41,442,615. [1]

The country's population has been declining since the 1990s because of a high emigration rate, coupled with high death rates and low birth rates. The population has been shrinking by an average of over 300,000 annually since 1993.

In 2007, the country's rate of population decline was the fourth highest in the world. [22] During the years 2008 to 2010, more than 1.5 million children were born in Ukraine, compared to fewer than 1.2 million during 1999–2001. In 2008, Ukraine posted record-breaking birth rates since its 1991 independence. Infant mortality rates have also dropped from 10.4 deaths to 8.3 per 1,000 children under one year of age, making it lower than 153 countries. [23]

In 2019 the government ran an electronic census using multiple sources, including mobile phone and pension data, and estimated that Ukraine's population, excluding Crimea and parts of the Donbas, to be 37.3 million. About 20 million were of active working age. [24] [25]

The Russian invasion considerably deepened the country's demographic crisis. A July 2023 study by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies stated that "[r]egardless of how long the war lasts and whether or not there is further military escalation, Ukraine is unlikely to recover demographically from the consequences of the war. Even in 2040 it will have only about 35 million inhabitants, around 20% fewer than before the war (2021: 42.8 million) and the decline in the working-age population is likely to be the most severe and far-reaching." The study took different scenarios, from a "best case" (end of the war in 2023 without much further escalation) to a "worst case" (end of the war in 2025 with further escalation) into account. Flight from war affects especially the southern and eastern regions and especially educated women of child-bearing age and their children. With an estimate of more than 20% of refugees not returning, study author Maryna Tverdostup concludes that this will lead to long-term shrinking and will significantly impair the conditions for reconstruction. [26]

Fertility and natalist policies

Population pyramid of Ukraine in 2023 Ukraine 2023 population pyramid.svg
Population pyramid of Ukraine in 2023

The current birth rate in Ukraine, as of 2020, is 8.1 live births/1,000 population, and the death rate is 14.7 deaths/1,000 population. [3]

The phenomenon of lowest-low fertility, defined as total fertility below 1.3, is emerging throughout Europe and is attributed by many to postponement of the initiation of childbearing. Ukraine, where total fertility (a very low 1.1 in 2001), was one of the world's lowest, shows that there is more than one pathway to lowest-low fertility. Although Ukraine has undergone immense political and economic transformations during 1991–2004, it has maintained a young age at first birth and nearly universal childbearing. Analysis of official national statistics and the Ukrainian Reproductive Health Survey show that fertility declined to very low levels without a transition to a later pattern of childbearing. Findings from focus group interviews suggest explanations of the early fertility pattern. These findings include the persistence of traditional norms for childbearing and the roles of men and women, concerns about medical complications and infertility at a later age, and the link between early fertility and early marriage. [27] Ukraine subsequently has one of the oldest populations in the world, with the average age of 40.8 years. [28]

To help mitigate the declining population, the government continues to increase child support payments. Thus it provides one-time payments of 12,250 hryvnias for the first child, 25,000 hryvnias for the second and 50,000 hryvnias for the third and fourth, along with monthly payments of 154 hryvnias per child. [29] [30] The demographic trend was showing signs of improvement, as the birth rate was steadily growing from 2001 to 2013. [31] Net population growth over the first nine months of 2007 was registered in five provinces of the country (out of 24), and population shrinkage was showing signs of stabilising nationwide. In 2007 the highest birth rates were in the western oblasts. [32] In 2008, Ukraine emerged from lowest-low fertility, and the upward trend has continued to 2012, with the population still decreasing but at a pace that was slowing year to year. If early 2010s trends were continuing, the population of Ukraine could have returned to positive growth later in the same decade. Similar trends were seen in Russia and Belarus as well, who experienced population growth in the 2010's. In 2014 the strong decline in births was re-established, with 2018 having fewer than half the number of births as in 1989. (see demographic tables) In 2020 the number of births decreased to 293,000, reaching levels not seen even in the late 90s and early 2000s when the number of births started to increase.

Due to mass emigration and destruction of property caused by Russian Invasion of Ukraine, the country's birth rate has declined significantly, and was 28% lower in the first six months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2021. [33] However, there could very well be a small, but meaningful increase in births, with the fertility rate possibly increasing to 1.60 children per women, even higher than the peak of 1.53 seen in 2012. [34]

Population

Life expectancy in Ukraine since 1900 Life expectancy in Ukraine.svg
Life expectancy in Ukraine since 1900
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Life expectancy in Ukraine since 1960 by gender

Life expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Ukraine by oblast in 2012 UkrLifeExpectancy.PNG
Life expectancy at birth in Ukraine by oblast in 2012

Average life expectancy at birth of the total population. [35]

PeriodLife expectancy in
Years
1950–195561.83
1955–1960Increase2.svg 67.11
1960–1965Increase2.svg 69.69
1965–1970Increase2.svg 70.66
1970–1975Decrease2.svg 70.57
1975–1980Decrease2.svg 69.65
1980–1985Decrease2.svg 69.15
1985–1990Increase2.svg 70.55
1990–1995Decrease2.svg 68.72
1995–2000Decrease2.svg 67.36
2000–2005Increase2.svg 67.46
2005–2010Increase2.svg 67.89
2010–2015Increase2.svg 71.12
The natural population growth of Ukraine in 1950-2010.
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Birth rate
Death rate
Natural growth rate Natural Population Growth of Ukraine.PNG
The natural population growth of Ukraine in 1950–2010.
  Birth rate
  Death rate
  Natural growth rate

Total fertility rate

Vital statistics

Notable events in Ukraine demography:

Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire

The figures below refer to the nine governorates of the Russian Empire (Volhynia, Katerynoslav, Kyiv, Podilia, Poltava, Tauryda, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv) with a Ukrainian majority. [39]

Average populationLive birthsDeathsNatural changeCrude birth rate (per 1,000)Crude death rate (per 1,000)Natural change (per 1,000) Total fertility rates
190024,969,0001,203,334660,723542,61148.226.521.7
190125,505,0001,123,519657,883465,63644.125.818.3
190225,935,0001,207,512681,580525,93246.626.320.3
190326,449,0001,188,404663,067525,33744.925.119.9
190426,961,0001,228,116682,068546,04845.625.320.3
190527,210,0001,160,308779,107381,20141.127.614.0
190627,949,0001,225,951724,045501,90643.925.918.0
190728,418,0001,279,027701,451577,57645.024.720.3
190829,069,0001,232,862692,624540,23842.423.818.6
190929,700,0001,226,155744,818481,33741.325.116.2
191030,297,0001,225,658839,491386,16740.527.712.7
191130,858,0001,240,985670,742570,24340.221.718.5
191230,580,0001,245,358654,157591,20140.721.419.3
191331,142,0001,222,277715,924506,35339.223.016.36.00
191430,973,0001,240,114716,875523,23940.023.116.9

Between WWI and WWII

[40] Average populationLive birthsDeathsNatural changeCrude birth rate (per 1,000)Crude death rate (per 1,000)Natural change (per 1,000)Fertility ratesLife Expectancy (male)Life Expectancy (female)
192427,400,0001,211,000484,880726,12043.317.325.9
192528,000,0001,246,000531,819714,18143.418.524.95.39
192628,700,0001,258,000518,656739,34442.517.525.0
192729,589,0001,228,000579,000649,00040.619.121.543.346.8
192830,251,0001,178,000575,000603,00038.118.619.544.648.7
192930,894,0001,115,000585,000530,00035.518.616.942.846.7
193031,436,0001,053,000580,000473,00033.018.214.842.546.9
193131,882,0001,001,000553,000448,00031.017.113.943.547.9
193232,342,000801,000746,00055,00024.723.01.734.539.4
193332,456,000564,0002,104,000-1,540,00017.464.8-47.4
193430,916,000562,000508,00054,00018.116.41.737.642.1
193531,006,000770,000381,000389,00024.512.112.446.352.7
193631,423,000905,000403,000502,00028.312.615.747.653.0
193731,957,0001,227,000450,000777,00037.513.723.746.251.9
193832,742,0001,123,000451,000672,00033.613.520.147.952.7
193933,425,0001,080,000412,600667,40031.712.119.647.752.5
1940(b)40,649,0001,243,00030.63.8047.452.4

(a) Information is given for Ukraine's territory within its old boundaries up to 17 September 1939 (b) Information is given for Ukraine's territory within its present-day boundaries, after the Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia in September 1939

After WWII

Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine [41]

Average population
Live birthsDeathsNatural changeCrude birth rate (per 1,000)Crude death rate (per 1,000)Natural change (per 1,000)Fertility ratesUrban fertilityRural fertilityAbortions, reported
1945435,230
1946753,493
1947712,994
1948757,783
1949911,641
195036,905,000844,585315,300529,30022.98.514.32.81
195137,569,000858,052327,500530,60022.88.714.12.76
195238,141,000846,434325,700520,70022.28.513.72.64
195338,678,000795,652326,800468,90020.68.412.12.41
195439,131,000845,128318,500526,60021.68.113.52.48
195539,506,000792,696296,200496,50020.17.512.62.70
195640,082,000822,569293,000529,60020.57.313.22.29
195740,800,000847,781304,800543,00020.87.513.32.29
195841,512,000873,483286,700586,80021.06.914.12.30
195942,155,000880,552316,800563,80020.97.513.42.29
196042,469,000878,768296,171582,59720.77.013.72.24
196143,097,000843,482304,346539,13619.67.112.52.17
196243,559,000823,151331,454491,69718.97.611.32.14
196344,088,000794,969323,556471,41317.97.310.62.06
196444,664,000741,668315,340426,32816.57.09.51.96
196545,133,000692,153342,717349,43615.37.67.71.99
196645,548,000713,492344,850368,64215.67.58.12.02
196745,997,000699,381368,573330,80815.18.07.22.01
196846,408,000693,064374,440318,62414.98.06.91.99
196946,778,000687,991404,151283,84014.78.66.12.04
197047,127,000719,213418,679300,53415.28.96.42.101,130,315
197147,507,000736,691424,717311,97415.48.96.62.12
197247,903,000745,696443,038302,65815.59.26.32.08
197348,274,000719,560449,351270,20914.99.35.62.04
197448,571,000736,616455,970280,64615.19.45.82.04
197548,881,000738,857489,550249,30715.110.05.12.021,110,223
197649,151,000747,069500,584246,48515.210.25.01.99
197749,388,000726,217517,967208,25014.710.54.21.94
197849,578,000732,187529,681202,50614.710.74.11.96
197949,755,000735,188552,019183,16914.711.13.71.96
198050,044,000742,489568,243174,24614.811.43.51.951,197,000
198150,222,000733,183568,789164,39414.611.33.31.931,112,734
198250,388,000745,591568,231177,36014.811.33.51.941,131,437
198350,573,000807,111583,496223,61516.011.64.42.111,125,686
198450,768,000792,035610,338181,69715.612.03.62.081,127,627
198550,941,000762,775617,548145,22715.012.12.92.021,179,000
198651,143,000792,574565,150227,42415.511.14.42.131,166,039
198751,373,000760,851586,387174,46414.811.43.42.071,168,136
198851,593,000744,056600,725143,33114.411.62.82.041,080,029
198951,770,000690,981600,59090,39113.311.61.71.921.782.331,058,414
199051,838,500657,202629,60227,60012.712.10.51.841.692.271,019,038
199151,944,400630,813669,960-39,14712.112.9-0.81.781.602.29957,022
199252,056,600596,785697,110-100,32511.413.4-1.91.671.482.23932,272
199352,244,100557,467741,662-184,19510.714.2-3.51.561.372.08860,996
199452,114,400521,545764,669-243,12410.014.7-4.71.471.281.98798,538
199551,728,400492,861792,587-299,7269.615.4-5.81.401.211.88740,172
199651,297,100467,211776,717-309,5069.215.2-6.01.341.161.79687,035
199750,818,400442,581754,151-311,5708.714.9-6.11.271.101.70596,740
199850,370,800419,238719,954-300,7168.414.4-6.01.211.051.64525,329
199949,918,100389,208739,170-349,9627.814.9-7.01.130.971.53495,760
200049,429,800385,126758,082-372,9567.815.4-7.61.120.971.51434,223
200148,923,200376,478745,952-369,4747.715.3-7.61.080.951.41369,750
200248,457,102390,688754,911-364,2238.115.7-7.61.100.971.43345,967
200348,003,463408,589765,408-356,8198.516.0-7.41.171.071.45315,835
200447,622,434427,259761,261-334,0029.016.0-7.01.221.131.46289,065
200547,280,817426,086781,961-355,8759.016.6-7.51.211.121.46263,950
200646,929,525460,368758,092-297,7249.816.2-6.31.311.211.59229,618
200746,646,046472,657762,877-290,22010.216.4-6.21.351.241.63210,454
200846,372,664510,589754,460-243,87111.016.3-5.31.461.351.75217,413
200946,143,714512,525706,739-194,21411.115.3-4.21.471.351.78194,845
201045,962,947497,689698,235-200,54610.815.2-4.41.441.311.77176,774
201145,778,534502,595664,588-161,99311.014.5-3.51.461.321.80169,131
201245,633,637520,705663,139-142,43411.414.5-3.11.531.391.87153,147
201345,553,047503,657662,368-158,71111.114.6-3.51.511.371.83147,736
201445,426,249465,882632,296-166,41410.314.0-3.71.501.351.83116,104
201542,929,298411,781594,796-183,0159.613.9-4.31.511.391.71106,357
201642,760,516397,037583,631-186,5949.313.6-4.31.471.361.64101,121
201742,584,542363,987574,123-210,1368.513.5-5.01.371.281.5294,665
201842,386,403335,874587,665-251,7917.913.9-6.01.301.221.4346,552
201942,153,201308,817581,114-272,2977.313.8-6.51.231.161.3474,606
202041,902,416293,457616,835-323,3787.014.7-7.71.221.131.36
202141,167,336271,983714,263-442,2806.617.4-10.81.161.081.29
2022 [42] 35,100,000(e)209,400541,739-332,3396.015.4-9.4
202334,744,634187,387496,200-308,8135.415.2-9.81.00

Note: Data excludes Crimea starting in 2014. [43]

Current vital statistics

[41]

PeriodLive birthsDeathsNatural increase
January 202121,93157,721−35,790
January 202218,06257,248−39,186
DifferenceDecrease2.svg −3,869 (−17.64%)Decrease Positive.svg −473 (−0.82%)Decrease2.svg −3,396

Note: Russia occupied and later annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The annexation is internationally recognized only by a small number of nations. The Ukrainian statistics Service can no longer provide accurate data on Crimea in the post-2014 period. Therefore, starting from 2014, the territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol are not included in the Demographics of Ukraine, but instead are included to the Demographics of Russia. All data from State Statistics Service of Ukraine.

Structure of the population

Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.I.2021) (The Government of Ukraine has informed the United Nations that it is not in a position to provide statistical data concerning the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.): [44]
Age GroupMaleFemaleTotal%
Total19 195 37622 223 34141 418 717100
0–4871 807817 5491 689 3564.08
5–91 184 2231 113 4852 297 7085.55
10–141 179 9051 112 8002 292 7055.54
15–19978 279923 1491 901 4284.59
20–241 029 297969 8361 999 1334.83
25–291 323 8621 255 9462 579 8086.23
30–341 705 2511 646 6723 351 9238.09
35–391 758 9221 739 0103 497 9328.45
40–441 533 8071 583 6733 117 4807.53
45–491 420 8741 541 6012 962 4757.15
50–541 269 3951 447 9272 717 3226.56
55–591 285 9991 603 8242 889 8236.98
60–641 225 3501 685 0842 910 4347.03
65-69921 6711 454 6102 376 2815.74
70-74656 5321 190 1341 846 6664.46
75-79323 037740 6991 063 7362.57
80-84335 863874 3711 210 2342.92
85-89113 869308 482422 3511.02
90-9454 945164 392219 3370.53
95-9915 89237 97353 8650.13
100+6 59612 12418 7200.05
Age groupMaleFemaleTotalPercent
0–143 235 9353 043 8346 279 76915.16
15–6413 531 03614 396 72227 927 75867.43
65+2 428 4054 782 7857 211 19017.41

Regional data

Population by oblast

Population of Ukraine by Oblast as of December 2021 UkraineMap Ukraine by Oblast as of End 2021.png
Population of Ukraine by Oblast as of December 2021
Name of OblastPopulation as of Dec 2021
Flag of the Donetsk Region.svg  Donetsk Oblast 4,062,839
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 3,100,320
Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg Kyiv City 2,952,577
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast.svg  Kharkiv Oblast 2,602,207
Flag of Lviv Oblast.svg  Lviv Oblast 2,480,137
Flag of Odesa Oblast.svg  Odesa Oblast 2,352,648
Flag of Luhansk Oblast.svg  Luhansk Oblast 2,104,531
Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg  Kyiv Oblast 1,795,099
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast.svg  Zaporizhzhia Oblast 1,640,876
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast.svg  Vinnytsia Oblast 1,511,574
Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg  Poltava Oblast 1,354,444
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.svg  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1,352,973
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg  Zakarpattia Oblast 1,245,491
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 1,230,507
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast.svg  Zhytomyr Oblast 1,180,638
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast.svg  Cherkasy Oblast 1,162,439
Flag of Rivne Oblast.svg  Rivne Oblast 1,142,599
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast.svg  Mykolaiv Oblast 1,093,492
Flag of Sumy Oblast.svg  Sumy Oblast 1,037,237
Flag of Ternopil Oblast.svg  Ternopil Oblast 1,022,625
Flag of Volyn Oblast.svg  Volyn Oblast 1,022,107
Flag of Kherson Oblast.svg  Kherson Oblast 1,002,923
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast.svg  Chernihiv Oblast 961,054
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast.svg  Kirovohrad Oblast 905,715
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast.svg  Chernivtsi Oblast 891,054
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 41,208,106

Birth data by oblast

Note: Recent data for Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts has been affected by the war in Donbas, and may only include births within the government-held parts of the oblasts. [45]

Number of births by oblast for January–NovemberBirth/2016Birth/2015Death/2016Death/2015
Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg Kyiv City 33416 Increase2.svg32382 Increase2.svg27772 Increase Negative.svg27767 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 28473 Decrease2.svg30620 Decrease2.svg47934 Decrease Positive.svg49258 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Lviv Oblast.svg  Lviv Oblast 25708 Increase2.svg25007 Decrease2.svg29247 Decrease Positive.svg30010 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Odesa Oblast.svg  Odesa Oblast 24246 Decrease2.svg25182 Decrease2.svg30479 Decrease Positive.svg31512 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast.svg  Kharkiv Oblast 21992 Decrease2.svg22864 Decrease2.svg38502 Decrease Positive.svg38965 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of the Donetsk Region.svg  Donetsk Oblast 17772 Increase2.svg15608 Decrease2.svg33464 Decrease Positive.svg36883 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg  Kyiv Oblast 17559 Decrease2.svg18485 Decrease2.svg25623 Decrease Positive.svg26046 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg  Zakarpattia Oblast 14862 Decrease2.svg15525 Decrease2.svg13880 Decrease Positive.svg14164 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Rivne Oblast.svg  Rivne Oblast 14454 Decrease2.svg14809 Decrease2.svg13261 Decrease Positive.svg13426 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast.svg  Zaporizhzhia Oblast 14430 Decrease2.svg15140 Decrease2.svg25533 Decrease Positive.svg25657 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast.svg  Vinnytsia Oblast 14153 Decrease2.svg15126 Decrease2.svg22521 Decrease Positive.svg23237 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.svg  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 13547 Decrease2.svg14412 Decrease2.svg15616 Decrease Positive.svg16144 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Volyn Oblast.svg  Volyn Oblast 12047 Decrease2.svg12307 Decrease2.svg12311 Decrease Positive.svg12602 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast.svg  Zhytomyr Oblast 11958 Decrease2.svg12526 Decrease2.svg18301 Decrease Positive.svg19085 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 11793 Decrease2.svg12768 Decrease2.svg18097 Decrease Positive.svg18702 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg  Poltava Oblast 11503 Decrease2.svg12381 Decrease2.svg22084 Decrease Positive.svg22440 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast.svg  Mykolaiv Oblast 9904 Decrease2.svg10626 Decrease2.svg15834 Decrease Positive.svg16316 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Kherson Oblast.svg  Kherson Oblast 9877 Decrease2.svg10476 Decrease2.svg14891 Decrease Positive.svg15055 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast.svg  Cherkasy Oblast 9721 Decrease2.svg10560 Decrease2.svg18437 Increase Negative.svg18315 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast.svg  Chernivtsi Oblast 9461 Decrease2.svg9851 Decrease2.svg10399 Decrease Positive.svg10738 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Ternopil Oblast.svg  Ternopil Oblast 9177 Decrease2.svg9912 Decrease2.svg13584 Decrease Positive.svg13962 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast.svg  Kirovohrad Oblast 8189 Decrease2.svg8662 Decrease2.svg14810 Increase Negative.svg14809 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Sumy Oblast.svg  Sumy Oblast 8169 Decrease2.svg8959 Decrease2.svg16982 Decrease Positive.svg17322 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast.svg  Chernihiv Oblast 7816 Decrease2.svg8359 Decrease2.svg17515 Decrease Positive.svg18199 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Luhansk Oblast.svg  Luhansk Oblast 5960 Increase2.svg4978 Decrease2.svg12689 Decrease Positive.svg13401 Decrease Positive.svg
Number of births by oblastBirth/2014Birth/2013Birth/2012Birth/2011Death/2014Death/2013Death/2012Death/2011
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 36497 Increase2.svg36134 Decrease2.svg37087 Increase2.svg36116 Increase2.svg52722 Increase Negative.svg51134 Decrease Positive.svg51486 Decrease Positive.svg52106 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of the Donetsk Region.svg  Donetsk Oblast 35595 Decrease2.svg41034 Decrease2.svg42839 Increase2.svg41720 Increase2.svg71799 Increase Negative.svg69345 Decrease Positive.svg70496 Decrease Positive.svg71042 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg Kyiv City 34821 Increase2.svg33305 Decrease2.svg33887 Increase2.svg32068 Decrease2.svg29992 Increase Negative.svg28003 Increase Negative.svg27840 Increase Negative.svg27050 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Lviv Oblast.svg  Lviv Oblast 30270 Increase2.svg29542 Decrease2.svg30220 Increase2.svg28904 Increase2.svg32450 Increase Negative.svg31666 Decrease Positive.svg31667 Increase Negative.svg31162 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Odesa Oblast.svg  Odesa Oblast 29465 Increase2.svg29075 Decrease2.svg30384 Increase2.svg29225 Increase2.svg34155 Increase Negative.svg33523 Decrease Positive.svg33648 Decrease Positive.svg33688 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast.svg  Kharkiv Oblast 27690 Increase2.svg26700 Decrease2.svg27244 Increase2.svg26317 Increase2.svg41891 Increase Negative.svg39465 Decrease Positive.svg40130 Increase Negative.svg40079 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg  Kyiv Oblast 20900 Increase2.svg20511 Decrease2.svg20966 Increase2.svg20083 Increase2.svg28264 Increase Negative.svg27198 Increase Negative.svg27161 Increase Negative.svg26847 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast.svg  Zaporizhzhia Oblast 18713 Increase2.svg18134 Decrease2.svg18882 Increase2.svg18198 Increase2.svg27773 Increase Negative.svg26498 Increase Negative.svg26406 Decrease Positive.svg27033 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg  Zakarpattia Oblast 18377 Decrease2.svg18490 Decrease2.svg18968 Increase2.svg18460 Increase2.svg14808 Increase Negative.svg14801 Decrease Positive.svg14813 Increase Negative.svg14588 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast.svg  Vinnytsia Oblast 17547 Increase2.svg17437 Decrease2.svg18339 Increase2.svg17894 Increase2.svg25567 Increase Negative.svg25453 Increase Negative.svg25158 Decrease Positive.svg25376 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Rivne Oblast.svg  Rivne Oblast 17169 Decrease2.svg17445 Decrease2.svg18316 Increase2.svg17697 Increase2.svg14714 Increase Negative.svg14556 Increase Negative.svg14302 Increase Negative.svg14168 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.svg  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 16886 Increase2.svg16716 Decrease2.svg17101 Increase2.svg16497 Increase2.svg17670 Increase Negative.svg17358 Increase Negative.svg16801 Increase Negative.svg16657 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast.svg  Zhytomyr Oblast 15115 Increase2.svg15001 Decrease2.svg15486 Increase2.svg15154 Increase2.svg21185 Increase Negative.svg20859 Increase Negative.svg20685 Increase Negative.svg20417 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Volyn Oblast.svg  Volyn Oblast 14668 Decrease2.svg14700 Decrease2.svg15346 Increase2.svg14620 Decrease2.svg13748 Increase Negative.svg13666 Decrease Positive.svg13710 Decrease Positive.svg13842 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 14631 Increase2.svg14548 Decrease2.svg14881 Increase2.svg14492 Increase2.svg20408 Decrease Positive.svg20581 Increase Negative.svg20362 Increase Negative.svg20116 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg  Poltava Oblast 14504 Increase2.svg14296 Decrease2.svg14635 Increase2.svg14167 Decrease2.svg24784 Increase Negative.svg24358 Increase Negative.svg24223 Decrease Positive.svg24384 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast.svg  Mykolaiv Oblast 13076 Increase2.svg13043 Decrease2.svg13515 Increase2.svg13029 Increase2.svg17750 Increase Negative.svg17353 Increase Negative.svg17277 Decrease Positive.svg17441 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast.svg  Cherkasy Oblast 12351 Increase2.svg12100 Decrease2.svg12798 Increase2.svg12473 Increase2.svg20800 Increase Negative.svg20477 Decrease Positive.svg20667 Decrease Positive.svg20848 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kherson Oblast.svg  Kherson Oblast 12308 Increase2.svg12300 Decrease2.svg12643 Increase2.svg12085 Decrease2.svg16141 Increase Negative.svg16048 Increase Negative.svg15904 Increase Negative.svg15828 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Ternopil Oblast.svg  Ternopil Oblast 11717 Decrease2.svg11807 Decrease2.svg12202 Increase2.svg11964 Increase2.svg15180 Increase Negative.svg14682 Decrease Positive.svg14838 Increase Negative.svg14829 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast.svg  Chernivtsi Oblast 11679 Increase2.svg11465 Decrease2.svg11592 Increase2.svg11281 Increase2.svg11619 Increase Negative.svg11520 Increase Negative.svg11321 Decrease Positive.svg11192 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Luhansk Oblast.svg  Luhansk Oblast 11442 Decrease2.svg20531 Decrease2.svg21743 Increase2.svg21320 Increase2.svg22755 Decrease Positive.svg35822 Decrease Positive.svg36316 Decrease Positive.svg37256 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast.svg  Kirovohrad Oblast 10576 Increase2.svg10562 Decrease2.svg11029 Increase2.svg10578 Increase2.svg16716 Increase Negative.svg16513 Decrease Positive.svg16521 Decrease Positive.svg16697 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Sumy Oblast.svg  Sumy Oblast 10344 Decrease2.svg10411 Decrease2.svg11093 Increase2.svg10473 Increase2.svg19452 Increase Negative.svg19219 Increase Negative.svg19002 Increase Negative.svg18833 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast.svg  Chernihiv Oblast 9552 Decrease2.svg9852 Decrease2.svg10222 Increase2.svg10134 Increase2.svg20324 Increase Negative.svg19909 Decrease Positive.svg20208 Increase Negative.svg20179 Decrease Positive.svg
Birth rate by oblastBirth/2014Birth/2013Birth/2012Birth/2011Death/2014Death/2013Death/2012Death/2011
Flag of Rivne Oblast.svg  Rivne Oblast 14.8 Decrease2.svg15.1 Decrease2.svg15.9 Increase2.svg15.3 Increase2.svg12.7 Increase Negative.svg12.6 Increase Negative.svg12.4 Increase Negative.svg12.3 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg  Zakarpattia Oblast 14.6 Decrease2.svg14.7 Decrease2.svg15.1 Increase2.svg14.8 Increase2.svg11.8 Steady2.svg11.8 Steady2.svg11.8 Increase Negative.svg11.7 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Volyn Oblast.svg  Volyn Oblast 14.1 Steady2.svg14.1 Decrease2.svg14.8 Increase2.svg14.1 Decrease2.svg13.2 Increase Negative.svg13.1 Decrease Positive.svg13.2 Decrease Positive.svg13.3 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast.svg  Chernivtsi Oblast 12.9 Increase2.svg12.6 Decrease2.svg12.8 Increase2.svg12.5 Increase2.svg12.8 Increase Negative.svg12.7 Increase Negative.svg12.5 Increase Negative.svg12.4 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Odesa Oblast.svg  Odesa Oblast 12.3 Increase2.svg12.1 Decrease2.svg12.7 Increase2.svg12.2 Increase2.svg14.3 Increase Negative.svg14.0 Decrease Positive.svg14.1 Steady2.svg14.1 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.svg  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 12.2 Increase2.svg12.1 Decrease2.svg12.4 Increase2.svg12.0 Increase2.svg12.8 Increase Negative.svg12.6 Increase Negative.svg12.2 Increase Negative.svg12.1 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg  Kyiv Oblast 12.1 Increase2.svg11.9 Decrease2.svg12.2 Increase2.svg11.7 Increase2.svg16.4 Decrease Positive.svg15.8 Steady2.svg15.8 Increase Negative.svg15.6 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg Kyiv City 12.1 Increase2.svg11.7 Decrease2.svg12.0 Increase2.svg11.4 Decrease2.svg10.4 Increase Negative.svg9.8 Steady2.svg9.8 Increase Negative.svg9.6 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast.svg  Zhytomyr Oblast 12.0 Increase2.svg11.9 Decrease2.svg12.2 Increase2.svg11.9 Increase2.svg16.8 Increase Negative.svg16.5 Increase Negative.svg16.3 Increase Negative.svg16.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Lviv Oblast.svg  Lviv Oblast 11.9 Increase2.svg11.6 Decrease2.svg11.9 Increase2.svg11.4 Increase2.svg12.8 Increase Negative.svg12.4 Decrease Positive.svg12.5 Increase Negative.svg12.3 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kherson Oblast.svg  Kherson Oblast 11.5 Increase2.svg11.4 Decrease2.svg11.7 Increase2.svg11.1 Decrease2.svg15.1 Increase Negative.svg14.9 Increase Negative.svg14.7 Increase Negative.svg14.6 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast.svg  Mykolaiv Oblast 11.2 Increase2.svg11.1 Decrease2.svg11.5 Increase2.svg11.0 Increase2.svg15.2 Increase Negative.svg14.8 Increase Negative.svg14.7 Decrease Positive.svg14.8 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 11.2 Increase2.svg11.1 Decrease2.svg11.3 Increase2.svg11.0 Increase2.svg15.6 Decrease Positive.svg15.7 Increase2.svg15.5 Increase Negative.svg15.2 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 11.1 Increase2.svg11.0 Decrease2.svg11.2 Increase2.svg10.9 Increase2.svg16.0 Increase Negative.svg15.5 Steady2.svg15.5 Decrease Positive.svg15.7 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast.svg  Vinnytsia Oblast 10.9 Increase2.svg10.8 Decrease2.svg11.2 Increase2.svg10.9 Increase2.svg15.9 Increase Negative.svg15.7 Increase Negative.svg15.4 Decrease Positive.svg15.5 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Ternopil Oblast.svg  Ternopil Oblast 10.9 Decrease2.svg11.0 Decrease2.svg11.3 Increase2.svg11.1 Increase2.svg14.2 Increase Negative.svg13.7 Decrease Positive.svg13.8 Increase Negative.svg13.7 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast.svg  Kirovohrad Oblast 10.8 Increase2.svg10.7 Decrease2.svg11.0 Increase2.svg10.5 Increase2.svg17.0 Increase Negative.svg16.7 Increase Negative.svg16.5 Decrease Positive.svg16.6 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast.svg  Zaporizhzhia Oblast 10.6 Increase2.svg10.2 Decrease2.svg10.6 Increase2.svg10.1 Increase2.svg15.7 Increase Negative.svg14.9 Increase Negative.svg14.8 Decrease Positive.svg15.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast.svg  Kharkiv Oblast 10.1 Increase2.svg9.8 Decrease2.svg9.9 Increase2.svg9.6 Increase2.svg15.3 Increase Negative.svg14.4 Decrease Positive.svg14.6 Steady2.svg14.6 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg  Poltava Oblast 10.0 Increase2.svg9.8 Decrease2.svg9.9 Increase2.svg9.5 Steady2.svg17.1 Increase Negative.svg16.7 Increase Negative.svg16.5 Increase Negative.svg16.4 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast.svg  Cherkasy Oblast 9.8 Increase2.svg9.6 Decrease2.svg10.1 Increase2.svg9.8 Increase2.svg16.5 Increase Negative.svg16.2 Steady2.svg16.2 Decrease Positive.svg16.3 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Sumy Oblast.svg  Sumy Oblast 9.2 Steady2.svg9.2 Decrease2.svg9.7 Increase2.svg9.1 Increase2.svg17.2 Increase Negative.svg16.9 Increase Negative.svg16.6 Increase Negative.svg16.3 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast.svg  Chernihiv Oblast 9.0 Decrease2.svg9.2 Decrease2.svg9.4 Increase2.svg9.3 Increase2.svg19.2 Increase Negative.svg18.6 Decrease Positive.svg18.7 Increase Negative.svg18.5 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of the Donetsk Region.svg  Donetsk Oblast 8.2 Decrease2.svg9.4 Decrease2.svg9.8 Increase2.svg9.5 Increase2.svg16.6 Increase Negative.svg15.9 Decrease Positive.svg16.1 Steady2.svg16.1 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Luhansk Oblast.svg  Luhansk Oblast 5.1 Decrease2.svg9.1 Decrease2.svg9.6 Increase2.svg9.3 Increase2.svg10.2 Decrease Positive.svg15.9 Decrease Positive.svg16.0 Decrease Positive.svg16.3 Decrease Positive.svg

Year in review 2013

Compared to 2012, amount of attrition increased by 16,278 persons, or 3.1 to 3.5 persons per 1,000 inhabitants real. Natural decrease was observed in 23 oblasts of the country, while natural increases were recorded only in the capital Kyiv, Zakarpattya, Rivne and Volyn oblast (respectively 5,302, 3,689, 2,889 and 1,034 people).

Some regions registered a low natural decline, such as Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Sevastopol, Lviv, Ternopil, Crimea, Kherson and Odesa (respectively, −55, −642, −863, −2,124, −2,875, −2,974, −3,748 and −4,448 people). The largest declines were recorded in Donetsk, Luhansk, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Poltava and Chernihiv (respectively −28,311, −15,291, −15,007, −12,765, −10,062 and −10,057), regions which have in common a low birth rate and high mortality of a large urban population and a strong rural population aging.

Net migration rate

-5.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015).

Infant mortality rate

Infant mortality by oblastDeath/2012Death/2011Death/2010Death/2009
Flag of the Donetsk Region.svg  Donetsk Oblast 540 Increase Negative.svg473 Decrease Positive.svg497 Decrease Positive.svg533 Steady2.svg
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 370 Increase Negative.svg343 Decrease Positive.svg347 Increase Negative.svg329 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Odesa Oblast.svg  Odesa Oblast 267 Decrease Positive.svg268 Increase Negative.svg263 Decrease Positive.svg280 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg Kyiv City 262 Increase Negative.svg255 Increase Negative.svg233 Decrease Positive.svg244 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Lviv Oblast.svg  Lviv Oblast 233 Decrease Positive.svg272 Increase Negative.svg266 Increase Negative.svg238 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast.svg  Kharkiv Oblast 203 Decrease Positive.svg234 Decrease Positive.svg243 Decrease Positive.svg252 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg  Zakarpattia Oblast 168 Decrease Positive.svg195 Decrease Positive.svg199 Decrease Positive.svg238 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast.svg  Vinnytsia Oblast 166 Decrease Positive.svg186 Increase Negative.svg148 Decrease Positive.svg149 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Luhansk Oblast.svg  Luhansk Oblast 165 Decrease Positive.svg188 Decrease Positive.svg199 Decrease Positive.svg252 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast.svg  Zaporizhzhia Oblast 154 Decrease Positive.svg169 Decrease Positive.svg182 Increase Negative.svg174 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Rivne Oblast.svg  Rivne Oblast 147 Decrease Positive.svg156 Decrease Positive.svg158 Decrease Positive.svg164 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 134 Increase Negative.svg89 Decrease Positive.svg109 Decrease Positive.svg174 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast.svg  Zhytomyr Oblast 124 Decrease Positive.svg134 Decrease Positive.svg135 Increase Negative.svg127 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast.svg  Cherkasy Oblast 122 Increase Negative.svg101 Decrease Positive.svg125 Decrease Positive.svg132 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg  Kyiv Oblast 119 Decrease Positive.svg143 Increase Negative.svg140 Decrease Positive.svg146 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.svg  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 109 Decrease Positive.svg145 Decrease Positive.svg170 Increase Negative.svg157 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Volyn Oblast.svg  Volyn Oblast 106 Decrease Positive.svg116 Decrease Positive.svg123 Increase Negative.svg118 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast.svg  Kirovohrad Oblast 103 Decrease Positive.svg139 Increase Negative.svg112 Decrease Positive.svg119 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kherson Oblast.svg  Kherson Oblast 100 Decrease Positive.svg120 Increase Negative.svg116 Decrease Positive.svg136 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast.svg  Mykolaiv Oblast 97 Steady2.svg97 Decrease Positive.svg104 Decrease Positive.svg112 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Ternopil Oblast.svg  Ternopil Oblast 97 Increase Negative.svg96 Decrease Positive.svg98 Increase Negative.svg93 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast.svg  Chernihiv Oblast 94 Increase Negative.svg80 Decrease Positive.svg82 Decrease Positive.svg103 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast.svg  Chernivtsi Oblast 92 Decrease Positive.svg96 Increase Negative.svg90 Decrease Positive.svg91 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg  Poltava Oblast 85 Decrease Positive.svg86 Decrease Positive.svg87 Decrease Positive.svg105 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Sumy Oblast.svg  Sumy Oblast 76 Decrease Positive.svg78 Decrease Positive.svg97 Increase Negative.svg91 Decrease Positive.svg
Infant mortality per 1,000 by OblastDeath/2012Death/2011Death/2010Death/2009
Flag of the Donetsk Region.svg  Donetsk Oblast 12.7 Increase Negative.svg11.4 Decrease Positive.svg12.0 Decrease Positive.svg12.3 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 10.0 Increase Negative.svg9.5 Decrease Positive.svg9.7 Increase Negative.svg8.8 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast.svg  Cherkasy Oblast 9.6 Increase Negative.svg8.1 Decrease Positive.svg10.0 Decrease Positive.svg10.5 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast.svg  Kirovohrad Oblast 9.4 Decrease Positive.svg13.2 Increase Negative.svg10.6 Decrease Positive.svg10.9 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast.svg  Chernihiv Oblast 9.2 Increase Negative.svg7.9 Decrease Positive.svg8.1 Decrease Positive.svg9.9 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast.svg  Vinnytsia Oblast 9.1 Decrease Positive.svg10.4 Increase Negative.svg8.4 Decrease Positive.svg8.3 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 9.0 Increase Negative.svg6.2 Decrease Positive.svg7.5 Decrease Positive.svg11.8 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg  Zakarpattia Oblast 8.9 Decrease Positive.svg10.6 Decrease Positive.svg10.9 Decrease Positive.svg13.1 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Odesa Oblast.svg  Odesa Oblast 8.8 Decrease Positive.svg9.2 Steady2.svg9.2 Decrease Positive.svg9.7 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast.svg  Zaporizhzhia Oblast 8.2 Decrease Positive.svg9.3 Decrease Positive.svg10.1 Increase Negative.svg9.4 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Rivne Oblast.svg  Rivne Oblast 8.1 Decrease Positive.svg8.9 Decrease Positive.svg9.2 Decrease Positive.svg9.4 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Kherson Oblast.svg  Kherson Oblast 8.0 Decrease Positive.svg9.9 Increase Negative.svg9.4 Decrease Positive.svg11.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast.svg  Zhytomyr Oblast 8.0 Decrease Positive.svg8.9 Decrease Positive.svg9.1 Increase Negative.svg8.5 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast.svg  Chernivtsi Oblast 8.0 Decrease Positive.svg8.5 Increase Negative.svg8.2 Steady2.svg8.2 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Ternopil Oblast.svg  Ternopil Oblast 8.0 Steady2.svg8.0 Decrease Positive.svg8.2 Increase Negative.svg7.5 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Lviv Oblast.svg  Lviv Oblast 7.8 Decrease Positive.svg9.4 Increase Negative.svg9.2 Decrease Positive.svg8.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg Kyiv City 7.8 Decrease Positive.svg8.0 Increase Negative.svg7.3 Decrease Positive.svg7.5 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Luhansk Oblast.svg  Luhansk Oblast 7.6 Decrease Positive.svg8.8 Decrease Positive.svg9.4 Decrease Positive.svg11.6 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast.svg  Kharkiv Oblast 7.5 Decrease Positive.svg8.9 Decrease Positive.svg9.2 Decrease Positive.svg9.3 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast.svg  Mykolaiv Oblast 7.3 Decrease Positive.svg7.5 Decrease Positive.svg8.1 Decrease Positive.svg8.5 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Volyn Oblast.svg  Volyn Oblast 7.0 Decrease Positive.svg7.9 Decrease Positive.svg8.2 Increase Negative.svg7.7 Increase Negative.svg
Flag of Sumy Oblast.svg  Sumy Oblast 6.9 Decrease Positive.svg7.5 Decrease Positive.svg9.3 Increase Negative.svg8.5 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.svg  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 6.4 Decrease Positive.svg8.8 Increase Negative.svg10.3 Increase Negative.svg9.1 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg  Poltava Oblast 5.8 Decrease Positive.svg6.1 Steady2.svg6.1 Decrease Positive.svg7.1 Decrease Positive.svg
Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg  Kyiv Oblast 5.7 Decrease Positive.svg7.2 Increase Negative.svg7.0 Decrease Positive.svg7.1 Decrease Positive.svg

Total fertility rate by oblast

Fertility rate in Ukraine by oblast in 2011 Fertilityrate2011ua.PNG
Fertility rate in Ukraine by oblast in 2011

Although none of the oblasts in 2013 has recorded a higher fertility rate 2.10 children per woman. However, the rate has been in rural areas in the Rivne Oblast (2.50) and the Volyn Oblast (2.20). While a very close generational renewal rate was achieved in the Odesa Oblast (2.04), Zakarpattia Oblast (2.00), Mykolaiv Oblast (1.95), Chernivtsi Oblast (1.93) and Zhytomyr Oblast (1.91) weaker when they have been recorded in the Luhansk oblast (1.41), Sumy oblast (1.47) and Cherkasy Oblast (1.53).

The fertility rate of the highest urban areas were recorded in the Zakarpattia Oblast (1.80), the city of Sevastopol (1.57), Volyn Oblast (1.56), Kyiv Oblast (1.56) and the Rivne Oblast (1.54). The lowest rates were recorded in the Sumy Oblast (1.23), Kharkiv Oblast (1.26), Cherkasy Oblast (1.28), Chernihiv Oblast (1.28), Chernivtsi Oblast (1.28), Luhansk oblast (1.28), Poltava oblast (1.29), Donetsk oblast (1.29) and Zaporizhzhia Oblast (1.32).

Children born per woman by oblastTotal fertility rate/2020Total fertility rate/2012Total fertility rate/2011Total fertility rate/2010
Flag of Rivne Oblast.svg  Rivne Oblast 1.54 Decrease2.svg2.08 Increase2.svg1.99 Increase2.svg1.93 Increase2.svg
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg  Zakarpattia Oblast 1.60 Decrease2.svg1.95 Increase2.svg1.90 Increase2.svg1.83 Steady2.svg
Flag of Volyn Oblast.svg  Volyn Oblast 1.51 Decrease2.svg1.92 Increase2.svg1.81 Decrease2.svg1.85 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast.svg  Zhytomyr Oblast 1.20 Decrease2.svg1.71 Increase2.svg1.65 Increase2.svg1.61 Increase2.svg
Flag of Odesa Oblast.svg  Odesa Oblast 1.34 Decrease2.svg1.71 Increase2.svg1.62 Increase2.svg1.58 Steady2.svg
Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg  Kyiv Oblast 1.18 Decrease2.svg1.67 Increase2.svg1.58 Steady2.svg1.58 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast.svg  Chernivtsi Oblast 1.30 Decrease2.svg1.64 Increase2.svg1.58 Increase2.svg1.53 Steady2.svg
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg  Khmelnytskyi Oblast 1.26 Decrease2.svg1.62 Increase2.svg1.56 Increase2.svg1.55 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.svg  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1.27 Decrease2.svg1.63 Increase2.svg1.55 Decrease2.svg1.58 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Kherson Oblast.svg  Kherson Oblast 1.20 Decrease2.svg1.61 Increase2.svg1.51 Steady2.svg1.51 Increase2.svg
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast.svg  Kirovohrad Oblast 1.10 Decrease2.svg1.61 Increase2.svg1.51 Increase2.svg1.50 Increase2.svg
Flag of Lviv Oblast.svg  Lviv Oblast 1.24 Decrease2.svg1.58 Increase2.svg1.49 Decrease2.svg1.50 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast.svg  Mykolaiv Oblast 1.11 Decrease2.svg1.57 Increase2.svg1.47 Increase2.svg1.44 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast.svg  Vinnytsia Oblast 1.20 Decrease2.svg1.59 Increase2.svg1.53 Increase2.svg1.50 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1.22 Decrease2.svg1.53 Increase2.svg1.46 Increase2.svg1.45 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 1.09 Decrease2.svg1.52 Increase2.svg1.44 Increase2.svg1.43 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Ternopil Oblast.svg  Ternopil Oblast 1.13 Decrease2.svg1.50 Increase2.svg1.45 Decrease2.svg1.46 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast.svg  Zaporizhzhia Oblast 1.03 Decrease2.svg1.46 Increase2.svg1.37 Increase2.svg1.34 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg  Poltava Oblast 1.04 Decrease2.svg1.41 Increase2.svg1.33 Decrease2.svg1.34 Increase2.svg
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast.svg  Cherkasy Oblast 1.01 Decrease2.svg1.43 Increase2.svg1.37 Increase2.svg1.36 Increase2.svg
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast.svg  Chernihiv Oblast 1.02 Decrease2.svg1.40 Increase2.svg1.36 Steady2.svg1.36 Increase2.svg
Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg Kyiv City 1.44 Decrease2.svg1.38 Increase2.svg1.29 Decrease2.svg1.30 Steady2.svg
Flag of the Donetsk Region.svg  Donetsk Oblast 1.34 Increase2.svg1.27 Increase2.svg1.26 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast.svg  Kharkiv Oblast 0.98 Steady2.svg1.32 Increase2.svg1.25 Increase2.svg1.24 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Sumy Oblast.svg  Sumy Oblast 0.93 Decrease2.svg1.36 Increase2.svg1.25 Increase2.svg1.23 Decrease2.svg
Flag of Luhansk Oblast.svg  Luhansk Oblast 1.33 Increase2.svg1.27 Increase2.svg1.23 Decrease2.svg

Other demographics statistics

Population pyramid of Ukraine in 1897 PopulationPyramideUkraine1897.PNG
Population pyramid of Ukraine in 1897
Population pyramid of Ukraine in 1926 PopulationPyramideUkraine1926.PNG
Population pyramid of Ukraine in 1926
Population pyramid of Ukraine in 2017 Ukrainepop.svg
Population pyramid of Ukraine in 2017
Population change, 1970-2010 Ukraine Population Dynamics 1970-2010.PNG
Population change, 1970–2010
Population change, 1970-1979 UaPopulationDynamics197079.PNG
Population change, 1970–1979
Population change, 1989-2001 UaPopulation1989-2001.PNG
Population change, 1989–2001
Population change, 1989-2012 Populat8910.PNG
Population change, 1989–2012
Population change of urban settlements, 1970-1989 UaUrbanDynamics7089.PNG
Population change of urban settlements, 1970–1989
Population change of urban settlements, 1989-2010 Ukraine City's Population Dynamics.PNG
Population change of urban settlements, 1989–2010

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2019. [47]

Demographic statistics according to the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated. [28]

Age structure:
0-14 years: 15.95% (male 3,609,386 /female 3,400,349)
15-24 years: 9.57% (male 2,156,338 /female 2,047,821)
25-54 years: 44.03% (male 9,522,108 /female 9,831,924)
55-64 years: 13.96% (male 2,638,173 /female 3,499,718)
65 years and over: 16.49% (male 2,433,718 /female 4,812,764) (2018 est.)
0-14 years: 15.76% (male 3,571,358/female 3,366,380)
15-24 years: 9.86% (male 2,226,142/female 2,114,853)
25-54 years: 44.29% (male 9,579,149/female 9,921,387)
55-64 years: 13.8% (male 2,605,849/female 3,469,246)
65 years and over: 16.3% (male 2,409,049/female 4,770,461) (2017 est.)
0–14 years: 15.1% = 6,449,171 (2015 official.)
15–64 years: 69.3% = 29,634,710
65 years and over: 15.6% = 6,675,780
0–14 years: 14.8% = 6,989,802
15–64 years: 69.2% = 32,603,475
65 years and over: 16.0% = 7,507,185 (2005 official.)
0–14 years: 21.6% = 11,101,469
15–64 years: 66.7% = 34,320,742
65 years and over: 11.7% = 6,022,934 (1989 official.)
Median age
total: 40.8 years. Country comparison to the world: 47th
male: 37.7 years
female: 43.9 years (2018 est.)
total: 40.6 years
male: 37.4 years
female: 43.7 years (2017 est.)
total: 39.8 years
male: 39.7 years
female: 40.1 years (2014 official)
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)
Birth rate
10.1 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 190th
10.3 births/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Death rate
14.3 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 6th
14.4 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Total fertility rate
1.55 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 190th
1.54 children born/woman (2017 est.)
Net migration rate
4.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 29th
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth
24.9 years (2014 est.)
Population growth rate
0.04% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 187th
-0.41% (2017 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 72.4 years. Country comparison to the world: 148th
male: 67.7 years
female: 77.4 years (2018 est.)
Ethnic groups

Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 est.)

Languages

Ukrainian (official) 67.5%, Russian (regional language) 29.6%, other (includes small Crimean Tatar-, Moldovan/Romanian-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) 2.9% (2001 est.)
Note: in February 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that 2012 language legislation entitling a language spoken by at least 10% of an oblast's population to be given the status of "regional language" – allowing for its use in courts, schools, and other government institutions – was unconstitutional, thus making the law invalid; Ukrainian remains the country's only official nationwide language.

Religions

Orthodox (includes Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox (UAOC), Ukrainian Orthodox – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Ukrainian Orthodox – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)), Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish
Note: Ukraine's population is overwhelmingly Christian; the vast majority – up to two-thirds – identify themselves as Orthodox, but many do not specify a particular branch; the UOC-KP and the UOC-MP each represent less than a quarter of the country's population, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church accounts for 8–10%, and the UAOC accounts for 1–2%; Muslim and Jewish adherents each compose less than 1% of the total population (2013 est.)

Dependency ratios
total dependency ratio: 44.8 (2015 est.)
youth dependency ratio: 21.8 (2015 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 23 (2015 est.)
potential support ratio: 4.3 (2015 est.)
note: data include Crimea
Urbanization
urban population: 69.4% of total population (2018)
rate of urbanization: -0.33% annual rate of change (2015–20 est.)
Literacy

definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)

total population: 99.8%
male: 99.8%
female: 99.7% (2015 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total: 15 years
male: 15 years
female: 16 years (2014)
Unemployment, youth ages 15–24
total: 23%. Country comparison to the world: 53rd
male: 24%
female: 21.5% (2016 est.)

Statistic rate of regional capitals

Birth rate in

regional centers

Birth/2012Birth/2011Birth/2010Birth/2009Birth/2007Birth/2005Birth/2003
Simferopol 13.6 Increase2.svg12.8 Increase2.svg11.8 Steady2.svg11.8 Increase2.svg11.0 Increase2.svg9.5 Increase2.svg9.2 Increase2.svg
Lutsk 12.6 Increase2.svg12.3 Decrease2.svg12.6 Decrease2.svg13.9 Increase2.svg12.6 Increase2.svg11.7 Increase2.svg10.0 Increase2.svg
Rivne 12.6 Increase2.svg12.0 Increase2.svg11.8 Decrease2.svg12.3 Increase2.svg10.9 Increase2.svg10.1 Decrease2.svg9.4 Increase2.svg
Uzhhorod 12.1 Increase2.svg11.9 Decrease2.svg12.0 Decrease2.svg12.4 Increase2.svg12.8 Increase2.svg12.6 Increase2.svg10.8 Decrease2.svg
Kyiv 12.0 Increase2.svg11.4 Decrease2.svg11.5 Decrease2.svg11.7 Increase2.svg10.4 Increase2.svg9.8 Increase2.svg8.8 Increase2.svg
Khmelnytskyi 12.0 Increase2.svg11.2 Decrease2.svg11.8 Increase2.svg11.5 Increase2.svg10.4 Steady2.svg10.2 Increase2.svg9.2 Increase2.svg
Sevastopol 12.0 Increase2.svg11.1 Increase2.svg11.0 Decrease2.svg11.2 Increase2.svg10.5 Increase2.svg9.6 Increase2.svg8.7 Increase2.svg
Kherson 11.9 Increase2.svg11.1 Increase2.svg10.1 Increase2.svg10.5 Increase2.svg9.6 Steady2.svg8.6 Decrease2.svg8.5 Increase2.svg
Ternopil 11.8 Decrease2.svg12.2 Increase2.svg11.7 Decrease2.svg12.3 Increase2.svg11.9 Increase2.svg11.6 Increase2.svg10.4 Increase2.svg
Ivano-Frankivsk 11.6 Steady2.svg11.6 Increase2.svg10.1 Decrease2.svg10.8 Decrease2.svg11.3 Increase2.svg10.7 Increase2.svg9.3 Increase2.svg
Vinnytsia 11.5 Increase2.svg11.2 Increase2.svg10.9 Decrease2.svg11.1 Increase2.svg10.1 Increase2.svg9.4 Increase2.svg9.1 Increase2.svg
Kropyvnytskyi 11.5 Increase2.svg11.1 Increase2.svg10.5 Decrease2.svg11.3 Decrease2.svg10.5 Increase2.svg8.9 Increase2.svg8.4 Decrease2.svg
Zhytomyr 11.4 Decrease2.svg11.5 Increase2.svg10.8 Decrease2.svg11.7 Increase2.svg10.6 Increase2.svg9.5 Increase2.svg8.7 Increase2.svg
Sumy 11.3 Increase2.svg10.3 Increase2.svg10.0 Decrease2.svg10.3 Decrease2.svg9.6 Increase2.svg8.2 Increase2.svg7.8 Increase2.svg
Lviv 11.0 Increase2.svg10.4 Increase2.svg10.0 Decrease2.svg10.5 Increase2.svg9.7 Increase2.svg9.3 Decrease2.svg9.0 Increase2.svg
Ukraine Urban 10.9 Increase2.svg10.5 Increase2.svg10.4 Decrease2.svg10.8 Steady2.svg9.9 Increase2.svg8.9 Steady2.svg8.3 Increase2.svg
Dnipro 10.5 Increase2.svg10.2 Increase2.svg10.0 Decrease2.svg10.5 Steady2.svg9.4 Increase2.svg8.5 Increase2.svg7.9 Increase2.svg
Luhansk 10.5 Increase2.svg9.8 Increase2.svg8.8 Decrease2.svg9.2 Decrease2.svg8.2 Increase2.svg7.4 Decrease2.svg6.8 Increase2.svg
Chernivtsi 10.2 Decrease2.svg10.3 Increase2.svg10.1 Decrease2.svg10.2 Decrease2.svg9.2 Increase2.svg9.6 Increase2.svg8.3 Increase2.svg
Odesa 10.1 Increase2.svg9.8 Increase2.svg9.6 Decrease2.svg9.9 Decrease2.svg9.0 Increase2.svg8.3 Increase2.svg7.5 Decrease2.svg
Cherkasy 9.9 Increase2.svg9.4 Steady2.svg9.4 Steady2.svg9.4 Decrease2.svg8.7 Increase2.svg7.8 Steady2.svg7.4 Decrease2.svg
Poltava 9.9 Increase2.svg9.1 Increase2.svg8.8 Decrease2.svg9.7 Decrease2.svg8.4 Increase2.svg7.8 Increase2.svg7.3 Increase2.svg
Zaporizhzhia 9.5 Increase2.svg9.2 Steady2.svg9.2 Decrease2.svg9.3 Decrease2.svg8.9 Increase2.svg8.2 Increase2.svg7.5 Decrease2.svg
Mykolaiv 9.4 Increase2.svg9.3 Increase2.svg9.1 Decrease2.svg9.4 Decrease2.svg8.7 Increase2.svg8.0 Decrease2.svg7.9 Increase2.svg
Chernihiv 9.3 Increase2.svg9.2 Increase2.svg9.1 Decrease2.svg9.6 Steady2.svg8.4 Increase2.svg8.0 Increase2.svg7.6 Increase2.svg
Kharkiv 9.2 Increase2.svg8.9 Increase2.svg8.8 Decrease2.svg9.2 Decrease2.svg8.4 Increase2.svg7.6 Increase2.svg7.1 Increase2.svg
Donetsk 9.1 Increase2.svg8.7 Increase2.svg8.6 Decrease2.svg9.0 Decrease2.svg8.2 Increase2.svg7.5 Increase2.svg6.6 Increase2.svg
Death rate in

regional centers

Death/2012Death/2011Death/2010Death/2009Death/2007Death/2005Death/2003
Kherson 15.2 Decrease Positive.svg15.6 Increase Negative.svg14.0 Decrease Positive.svg14.2 Decrease Positive.svg14.9 Decrease Positive.svg14.8 Decrease Positive.svg14.5 Decrease Positive.svg
Luhansk 14.2 Decrease Positive.svg14.3 Increase Negative.svg13.6 Increase Negative.svg13.4 Decrease Positive.svg13.8 Decrease Positive.svg14.2 Decrease Positive.svg14.1 Increase Negative.svg
Simferopol 14.0 Decrease Positive.svg14.8 Increase Negative.svg13.6 Decrease Positive.svg13.8 Decrease Positive.svg15.3 Steady2.svg15.3 Increase Negative.svg15.2 Decrease Positive.svg
Sevastopol 13.7 Decrease Positive.svg14.1 Decrease Positive.svg14.7 Increase Negative.svg14.5 Decrease Positive.svg15.5 Increase Negative.svg15.4 Increase Negative.svg14.1 Increase Negative.svg
Kropyvnytskyi 13.7 Steady2.svg13.7 Decrease Positive.svg13.8 Decrease Positive.svg14.0 Decrease Positive.svg14.4 Increase Negative.svg14.1 Steady2.svg14.1 Increase Negative.svg
Dnipro 13.5 Decrease Positive.svg13.7 Decrease Positive.svg14.1 Increase Negative.svg13.8 Decrease Positive.svg15.1 Steady2.svg15.1 Decrease Positive.svg16.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Donetsk 13.4 Decrease Positive.svg13.5 Decrease Positive.svg14.0 Increase Negative.svg13.9 Decrease Positive.svg15.2 Decrease Positive.svg15.4 Increase Negative.svg14.7 Increase Negative.svg
Zaporizhzhia 13.2 Decrease Positive.svg13.4 Decrease Positive.svg14.2 Increase Negative.svg13.8 Decrease Positive.svg15.0 Increase Negative.svg14.7 Increase Negative.svg14.2 Decrease Positive.svg
Ukraine Urban 13.1 Steady2.svg13.1 Decrease Positive.svg13.7 Steady2.svg13.7 Decrease Positive.svg14.7 Increase Negative.svg14.8 Increase Negative.svg14.3 Increase Negative.svg
Mykolaiv 12.8 Steady2.svg12.8 Decrease Positive.svg13.8 Steady2.svg13.8 Decrease Positive.svg14.5 Steady2.svg14.5 Decrease Positive.svg14.9 Increase Negative.svg
Poltava 12.8 Increase Negative.svg12.6 Decrease Positive.svg13.2 Increase Negative.svg13.0 Decrease Positive.svg13.7 Increase Negative.svg13.6 Steady2.svg13.6 Increase Negative.svg
Sumy 12.1 Increase Negative.svg11.9 Decrease Positive.svg12.4 Decrease Positive.svg12.6 Decrease Positive.svg13.0 Decrease Positive.svg13.1 Increase Negative.svg11.9 Decrease Positive.svg
Kharkiv 12.0 Increase Negative.svg11.8 Decrease Positive.svg12.4 Increase Negative.svg12.2 Decrease Positive.svg13.1 Steady2.svg13.1 Increase Negative.svg13.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Odesa 11.9 Decrease Positive.svg12.2 Decrease Positive.svg13.0 Increase Negative.svg12.5 Decrease Positive.svg13.9 Increase Negative.svg14.1 Decrease Positive.svg14.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Cherkasy 11.2 Increase Negative.svg10.7 Decrease Positive.svg11.3 Increase Negative.svg11.2 Decrease Positive.svg11.7 Steady2.svg11.7 Increase Negative.svg11.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Chernihiv 11.4 Increase Negative.svg11.1 Decrease Positive.svg12.0 Increase Negative.svg11.8 Decrease Positive.svg12.5 Decrease Positive.svg12.4 Increase Negative.svg12.0 Decrease Positive.svg
Lviv 11.0 Increase Negative.svg10.8 Increase Negative.svg10.5 Decrease Positive.svg10.8 Decrease Positive.svg11.5 Increase Negative.svg11.4 Decrease Positive.svg11.5 Increase Negative.svg
Zhytomyr 10.7 Decrease Positive.svg10.9 Decrease Positive.svg11.2 Increase Negative.svg11.1 Decrease Positive.svg12.0 Decrease Positive.svg12.2 Increase Negative.svg11.4 Increase Negative.svg
Uzhhorod 10.3 Increase Negative.svg10.2 Decrease Positive.svg10.5 Decrease Positive.svg11.3 Decrease Positive.svg12.0 Decrease Positive.svg12.4 Increase Negative.svg10.3 Increase Negative.svg
Kyiv 9.8 Increase Negative.svg9.6 Decrease Positive.svg10.3 Increase Negative.svg10.2 Decrease Positive.svg11.4 Increase Negative.svg11.2 Increase Negative.svg10.7 Increase Negative.svg
Lutsk 9.6 Increase Negative.svg9.4 Decrease Positive.svg9.6 Increase Negative.svg9.1 Decrease Positive.svg10.4 Increase Negative.svg10.2 Decrease Positive.svg10.5 Increase Negative.svg
Chernivtsi 9.5 Increase Negative.svg9.4 Decrease Positive.svg9.9 Decrease Positive.svg10.3 Decrease Positive.svg11.0 Steady2.svg11.0 Increase Negative.svg10.8 Increase Negative.svg
Khmelnytskyi 9.4 Increase Negative.svg8.8 Decrease Positive.svg9.0 Decrease Positive.svg9.5 Increase Negative.svg9.8 Steady2.svg9.8 Increase Negative.svg9.2 Increase Negative.svg
Vinnytsia 9.1 Increase Negative.svg9.0 Decrease Positive.svg9.2 Steady2.svg9.2 Decrease Positive.svg10.2 Steady2.svg10.2 Increase Negative.svg10.0 Increase Negative.svg
Ivano-Frankivsk 9.1 Increase Negative.svg8.7 Increase Negative.svg8.2 Decrease Positive.svg8.5 Decrease Positive.svg9.1 Decrease Positive.svg9.3 Steady2.svg9.3 Increase Negative.svg
Ternopil 8.1 Increase Negative.svg7.6 Decrease Positive.svg8.1 Increase Negative.svg7.7 Decrease Positive.svg8.5 Steady2.svg8.5 Increase Negative.svg7.7 Decrease Positive.svg
Rivne 7.9 Increase Negative.svg7.8 Decrease Positive.svg8.7 Increase Negative.svg8.6 Decrease Positive.svg9.0 Increase Negative.svg9.2 Increase Negative.svg8.8 Decrease Positive.svg

Ethnic groups

National structure of the population of Ukraine (2001).

Ukrainians
Russians
Others Ukraine census 2001 Ethnic groups.svg
National structure of the population of Ukraine (2001).
  Ukrainians
  Russians
  Others

In 2001, the ethnic composition was: Ukrainians 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Romanian 1.1% (including Moldovan 0.8%), Belarusian 0.6%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 1.0%, Pontic Greeks 0.2% and other 1.6% (including Muslim Bulgarians, otherwise known as Torbesh and a microcosm of Swedes of Gammalsvenskby). [48] It is also estimated that there are about 49,817 ethnic Koreans (0.12%) in Ukraine that belong to the Koryo-saram group. Their number may be as high as 100,000 as many ethnic Koreans were assimilated into the majority population. [49] [50] Rusyns are also not recognised by the Ukrainian government as a distinct ethnic group and are instead treated as a sub-group of Ukrainians. [51]

According to the 2021 law “On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine” the Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks are the indigenous peoples of Ukraine. [52]

Ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine by raions (2001 census) Ethnicukrainian2001.PNG
Ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine by raions (2001 census)
Largest ethnicity in Ukraine's cities and raions, according to 2001 census. UaFirstNationality2001-English.png
Largest ethnicity in Ukraine's cities and raions, according to 2001 census.

Before World War II

Population of the Ukrainian SSR according to ethnic group 1926–1939
Ethnic
group
census 19261census 19392
Number %Number %
Ukrainians 23,218,86080.023,667,50976.5
Russians 2,677,1669.24,175,29913.5
Jewish 1,574,4285.41,532,7765.0
Germans 393,9241.4392,4581.3
Polish 476,4351.6357,7101.2
Moldavians / Romanians 257,7940.9230,6980.8
Belarusians 75,8420.3158,1740.5
Pontic Greeks 104,6660.4107,0470.4
Bulgarians 99,2780.383,8380.3
Tatars 22,2810.155,4560.2
Romani 13,5780.010,4430.0
Others103,9350.4174,8100.6
Total29,018,18730,946,218
1 Source:. [53]

After World War II

Population of Ukraine according to ethnic group 1959–2001
Ethnic
group
census 19591census 19702census 19793census 19894census 20015
Number %Number %Number %Number %Number %
Ukrainians 32,158,49376.835,283,85774.936,488,95173.637,419,05372.737,541,69377.5
Russians 7,090,81316.99,126,33119.410,471,60221.111,355,58222.18,334,14117.2
Romanians / Moldovans 391,7531.1378,0431.1415,3711.1459,3501.2409,6081.1
Belarusians 290,8900.7385,8470.8406,0980.8440,0450.9275,7630.6
Crimean Tatars 1930.03,5540.06,6360.046,8070.1248,1930.5
Bulgarians 219,4190.5234,3900.5238,2170.5233,8000.5204,5740.4
Hungarians 149,2290.4157,7310.3164,3730.3163,1110.3156,5660.3
Poles 363,2970.9295,1070.6258,3090.5219,1790.4144,1300.3
Jewish 840,3112.0777,1261.7634,1541.3486,6281.0103,5910.2
Armenians 28,0240.133,4390.138,6460.154,2000.199,8940.2
Greeks 104,3590.3106,9090.2104,0910.298,5940.291,5480.2
Tatars 61,3340.272,6580.283,9060.286,8750.273,3040.2
Romani 22,5150.130,0910.134,4110.147,9170.147,5870.1
Azerbaijanis 6,6800.010,7690.017,2350.036,9610.145,1760.1
Georgians 11,5740.014,6500.016,3010.023,5400.134,1990.1
Germans 23,2430.129,8710.134,1390.137,8490.133,3020.1
Gagauz 23,5300.126,4640.129,3980.131,9670.131,9230.1
Karaites 3,3010.02,5960.01,8450.01,4040.01,1960.0
Others129,3380.3157,0840.3165,6500.3209,1720.4363,8211.1
Total41,869,04647,126,51749,609,33351,452,03448,240,902
1 Source:. [54] 2 Source:. [55] 3 Source:. [56] 4 Source:. [57] 5 Source: .

Ethnic Groups in Ukraine 2001 [58]

  Ukrainian (77.8%)
  Russian (17.3%)
  Belarusian (0.6%)
  Moldovan (0.5%)
  Crimean Tatar (0.5%)
  Bulgarian (0.4%)
  Hungarian (0.3%)
  Romanian (0.3%)
  Polish (0.3%)
  Jewish (0.2%)
  Other (1.8%)

Languages

According to the 2001 census, the following languages are common in Ukraine: Ukrainian 67.5%, Russian 29.6%, Crimean Tatar, Urum (Turkic Greeks), Bulgarian, Moldovan/Romanian, Polish, Hungarian. The below table gives the total population of various ethnic groups in Ukraine and the primary language, according to the 2001 census. [48]

Primary language by ethnic group
Ethnic groupPopulationNativeUkrainianRussianOther
Ukrainians 37,541,69331,970,7285,544,729532
Russians 8,334,1417,993,832328,152402
Moldovans 258,619181,12427,77545,6071242
Belarusians 275,76354,57348,202172,251
Crimean Tatars 248,193228,37318415,20843
Bulgarians 204,574131,23710,27762,0679
Hungarians 156,566149,4315,3671,51314
Romanians 150,989138,5229,3672,297170
Polish 144,13018,660102,26822,495390
Hebrew 103,5913,21313,92485,96416
Armenians 99,89450,3635,79843,10511
Greeks 91,5485,8294,35980,9929
Tatars 73,30425,7703,31043,0606
Koreans 49,8172,22337,9329,6620
Romani people 47,58721,26610,0396,3786
Azerbaijanis 45,17623,9583,22416,96836
Georgians 34,19912,5392,81818,58915
Germans 33,3024,0567,36021,54920
Gagauz 31,92322,8221,1027,2322
Uzbeks 12,3533,6041,8185,9960
Chuvash 10,5932,2685647,6361
Mordvinians 9,3311,4736467,1680
Turks 8,8447,9231335670
Lithuanians 7,2071,9321,0294,1824
Arabs 6,5754,0718971,2350
Slovaks 6,3972,6332,6653350
Czechs 5,9171,1902,5032,1442
Kazakhs 5,5261,0418223,47011
Latvians 5,0799578723,1881
Ossetians 4,8341,1504013,1104
Udmurts 4,7127293803,5150
Lezghinians 4,3491,5073302,3414
Tadjiks 4,2551,5214881,9830
Bashkirs 4,2538433362,9200
Mari people 4,1301,0592642,7587
Thai 3,8503,641291640
Turkmens 3,7097191,0791,3920
Albanians 3,3081,7403011,1810
Assyrians 3,1438834081,7300
Chechens 2,8771,5812129770
Estonians 2,8684163212,1074
Chinese people 2,2131,817733070
Kurds 2,0881,1732363960
Darghins 1,6104091999550
Komis 1,5453301271,0460
Karelians 1,522961451,2441
Avars 1,4965821217610
Peoples of India and Pakistan 1,4831,092261920
Abkhazians 1,4583172687970
Karaites 1,196721609310
Komi-Permians 1,165160798981
Kyrgyz people 1,12820822161719
Laks 1,01919927151413
Afghans 1,008551602130
other3,2281,0271447900
NA188,63901,1081,8441
Native languages according to 2001 census
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Ukrainian Russian Romanian and Moldovan
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Crimean Tatar Bulgarian Hungarian

Religion

A 2018 survey conducted by the Razumkov Centre found that 71.7% of the population declared themselves believers in any religion, while 4.7% declared themselves non-believers, and 3.0% declared to be atheists. [59] Of the total Ukrainian population, 87.4% declared to be Christians, comprising a 67.3% who declared to be Eastern Orthodox, 10.2% Catholic (split into 9.4% Ukrainian Greek Catholics and 0.8% Latin Catholics), 7.7% "Christians", and 2.2% Protestants. Judaism comprises 0.4% of the population. In earlier surveys around 1-2% of the population stated that they adhere to Islam.

According to data from 2018 among those Ukrainians who declared to believe in Orthodoxy, 28.7% declared to be members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate (being incorporated as of the 5 January 2019 into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine), while 12.8% declared to be members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscovian Patriarchate (which is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox church under the Russian Orthodox Church). A further 0.3% were members of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which, like the Kyivan Patriarchate, where incorporated in 2019 into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Among the remaining Orthodox Ukrainians, 23.4% declared to be "simply Orthodox", without affiliation to any patriarchate, while a further 1.9% declared that they "did not know" which patriarchate or Orthodox church they belonged to. [59]

Regional differences

Regional differences in population change

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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, [60] 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 0.3% and 0.5% respectively. A third western Ukrainian region, Volyn, lost less than 0.1% of its population between 1989 and 2001. [60] 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. [60]

Between 1989 and 2001, the population of Kyiv City increased by 0.3% [60] 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. [60] Chernihiv region, in central Ukraine northeast of Kyiv, lost 170,600 people or 12% of its 1989 population, the highest percentage loss in of any region in Ukraine. In southern Ukraine, Odesa 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% loss of the 1989 population. [60]

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. [61] 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. [60]

Thus, from 1989–2001 the pattern of population change was one of slight growth in Kyiv, slight declines in western Ukraine, large declines in eastern, central and southern Ukraine and a relatively small decline in Crimea due to a large influx of Crimean Tatars.

Natural population growth
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All population, 2012 Urban population, 2009 Rural population, 2009

Regional differences in birth and fertility rates

Ukraine's total fertility rate is one of the lowest in Europe. [62] [63] 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. [64] Volyn's birthrate is higher than the average birth rate of any European country with the exceptions of Iceland and Albania. [65]

In 2007, for the first time since 1990, five Ukrainian regions (Zakarpattia Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Lviv Oblast, and Kyiv Oblast) experienced more births than deaths. [66] 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. [66]

With the exception of Kyiv 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. [67]

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. Specifically, during the time of the Holodomor, Poland ruled Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, and Volyn Oblasts, whereas Zakarpattia Oblast was under Czechoslovak rule, and Romania controlled Chernivtsi Oblast and the Budjak section of Odesa Oblast.

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. [68] Donetsk and Dniproptrovsk oblasts in eastern and central Ukraine have the country's highest rate of abortions. [69]

Natural population growth
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The birth rate in Ukraine, 2003. The birth rate in Ukraine, 2010. The death rate in Ukraine, 2010.

Regional differences and death rates and health

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Death rate from suicides per 100.000 people

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 Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kropyvnytskyi, Luhansk, Mikolaiv, and Odesa regions is 1.5 years lower than the national average. [70]

Ukraine had a suicide rate of 16.5 per 100,000 population in 2017, a significant decrease from the suicide rate of 29.6 per 100,000 in 1998. Suicides are more frequent in the central part of the country (the highest suicide rates was in Kirovohrad Oblast; In western Ukraine, the suicide rate was lower than the national average. Lviv Oblast has the lowest suicide rate – 5.3 [71]

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 Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk regions. [72] 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 1990s, which in turn led to the spread of unemployment, alcoholism, and drug abuse, thus setting the conditions for wider spread of the epidemic. [73]

Regional differences in income

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Average Monthly Salary by region in US dollars, 2019.

The western and central regions of Ukraine had lower GDP per capita than Kyiv and the industrialized eastern regions of Ukraine. In December 2019 the average monthly salary in Ukraine was 12,264 hryvnias (or 519 US dollars). Chernihiv oblast (northern Ukraine) and Kirovohrad Oblast (central Ukraine), had the lowest monthly salary of 8,851 and 9,450 hryvnias, respectively. In contrast, the monthly wage in the city of Kyiv was 18,869 hryvnias per month, and in Kyiv oblast – 13,259 per month. [74] In 2013, outside of the capital city of Kyiv, the wealthiest region was Donetsk Oblast with annual income 31,048 hryvnias. But as of 2017, Donetsk Oblast ranks as the second poorest after Luhansk Oblast with annual incomes 25,278 hryvnias and 16,416 hryvnias respectively. [75] Both are in the eastern Ukraine and have sustained direct losses as a consequence of military actions.

Ukraine recorded one of the sharpest declines in poverty of any transition economy in 2001–2016 years. The poverty rate, measured against an absolute poverty line (below $1.25 per day in dollars, based on World Bank) fell from a high of 32 percent in 2001 to 8 percent in 2005. In terms of poverty rates, the central and northern regions have the country's highest poverty rates – 10.0%. The western and southern regions – 9.1% and 9% respectively. Kyiv City had the lowest poverty rate – 1.4%. [76] Percent of population living under $5.50 a day was 19% in 2005 and dropped to 4.0 percent in 2018. [77] [78]

Urbanization

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Urbanization rate, 2011 Population density, 2013 Median population of rural settlements, 2011

Migration

Migration growth rate in 2012 (per 1,000). MigrationGrowth2012ua.PNG
Migration growth rate in 2012 (per 1,000).

Emigration

Ukraine is the major source of migrants in many of the member states of the European Union. 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 countries like Italy, Portugal, Spain, Israel and Canada. Although estimates vary, approximately two to three million Ukrainian citizens are currently working abroad, 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. [79]

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. Italy has the highest rate of Ukrainian emigrants as a proportion of the native population, while the much larger Russia has the largest absolute confirmed number of Ukrainian emigrants (leaving aside Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic, for which there is conflicting data).

Immigration

Between 1991 and 2003, about 100,000 illegal immigrants were detained at the western borders. [80] In 2005, about 5,000 illegal immigrants are detained yearly. Most of these are Asian immigrants from China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. [80] At the time about 3,000 officially registered refugees resided in Ukraine, of whom most were Afghans. [80]

Ukraine accepted some 62,000 refugees from Transnistria following its war in 1992. [80] Thousands were also accepted during decade from other post-Soviet conflicts in Abkhazia, Chechnya and Tajikistan. [80]

Results between the 1989 Soviet census and the 2001 census showed an increased number of CIS people in Ukraine from regions witnessing war. The number of Armenians in Ukraine almost doubled to 99,900 people during this period, while the number of Georgians and Azerbaijanis also had substantial increases. [80]

As of April 2020, 1.4 million Ukrainians are internally displaced due to the ongoing war in Donbas. [81]

See also

General:

Notes

    1. Note: Crude migration change (per 1000) is a trend analysis, an extrapolation based average population change (current year minus previous) minus natural change of the current year (see table vital statistics). As average population is an estimate of the population in the middle of the year and not end of the year.

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