Demographics of Ukraine

Demographics of Ukraine
Population of Ukraine (in millions) from 1950-2012.
Population	42,721,954 (1 March 2016: not including Crimea and Sevastopol)[1]
Growth rate	−8.4 people/1,000 population (2015)
Birth rate	9.7 births/1,000 population (2014)
Death rate	16.4 deaths/1,000 population (2015)
Life expectancy	68.37 years (2015)
• male	63.73 years
• female	73.64 years
Fertility rate	1.3 children born/woman (2015)
Infant mortality rate	8.0 deaths/1,000 infants (2015)
Net migration rate	−5.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015)
Age structure
0–14 years	14.8%
15–64 years	69.9%
65 and over	15.3% (2014)
Sex ratio
At birth	1.06 male(s)/female
Under 15	1.06 male(s)/female
15–64 years	0.92 male(s)/female
65 and over	0.51 male(s)/female
Nationality
Nationality	noun: Ukrainian(s) adjective: Ukrainian
Major ethnic	Ukrainians (85.9%) 2015
Minor ethnic	Russians (8.1%) 2015
Language
Official	Ukrainian
Spoken	Ukrainian, Russian, others

The demographics of Ukraine include statistics on population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.

The data in this article are based on the most recent Ukrainian Census, which was carried out in 2001,^[2] the CIA World Factbook, and the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. The next census is scheduled to take place in 2020.^[3][4]

The total population of 42,721,954^[1] depicted here excludes Crimea and Sevastopol. The total population including those territories is 45,045,323^[5]

Population

Population change, 1970–2010

Population change, 1970–1979

Population change, 1989–2001

Population change, 1989–2012

Population change of urban settlements, 1970–1989

Population change of urban settlements, 1989–2010

45,426,249 (1 January 2013)^[6]

Age structure

• 0–14 years: 21.6% = 11,101,469
• 15–64 years: 70.2% = 34,320,742
• 65 years and over: 15.2% = 6,022,934

(1989 official.)

• 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: 15.1% = 6,449,171
• 15–64 years: 69.3% = 29,634,710
• 65 years and over: 15.6% = 6,675,780

(2015 official.)

Median age

• total: 34.8 years
• male: 31.9 years
• female: 37.7 years (1989 official)
• total: 39.7 years
• male: 39.5 years
• female: 40.1 years (2013 official)
• total: 39.8 years
• male: 39.7 years
• female: 40.1 years (2014 official)

Historical data

There were roughly 4 million Ukrainians at the end of the 17th century.^[7] The historical information is taken out of Demoscope.ru. Please, note that territory of the modern Ukraine at the times listed above varied greatly. The western regions of Ukraine, west of Zbruch river, until 1939 for most of time were part of the Kingdom Galicia and later the Polish Republic. The detailed information for those territories is missing, for more information see Demographics of Poland. The Crimean peninsula was changing hands as well, in 1897 it was a part of the Taurida Governorate, but after the October Revolution became part of the Russian SFSR, and later was turned under the administration of the Ukrainian SSR.

The territory of Budjak (southern Bessarabia) became a part of the Ukrainian SSR in June 1940. The censuses of 1926 through 1989 were taken in the Ukrainian SSR. The census of 1897 is taken with the correspondence to nine gubernias that included in the territory of today's Ukraine. The statistics of 1905 records are taken from www.statoids.com which provides a broad degree of historical explanation on the situation in the Imperial Russia. The census statistics of 1931 was estimated by the professor Zenon Kuzela (1882–1952)^[8] from Berlin. His calculations are as of January 1, 1931. This ethnograph is mentioned in the encyclopedia of Ukraine as one of the sources only available due to lack of the official census.^[9][10]

The 2001 census was the first official census of the independent republic of Ukraine. Its data is given as on January 1. The 2003–2009 stats were taken from the official website of Ukrstat and represent the data as of February of each year for the real population.

Vital statistics

Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire

The figures below refer to the nine governorates of the Russian Empire (Volhynia, Yekaterinoslav, Kiev, Podolia, Poltava, Taurida, Kharkov, Kherson and Chernigov) with a Ukrainian majority.^[11]

	Average population (thousands)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1,000)	Crude death rate (per 1,000)	Natural change (per 1,000)
1900	24,969	1,203,334	660,723	542,611	48.2	26.5	21.7
1901	25,505	1,123,519	657,883	465,636	44.1	25.8	18.3
1902	25,935	1,207,512	681,580	525,932	46.6	26.3	20.3
1903	26,449	1,188,404	663,067	525,337	44.9	25.1	19.9
1904	26,961	1,228,116	682,068	546,048	45.6	25.3	20.3
1905	28,210	1,160,308	779,107	381,201	41.1	27.6	13.5
1906	27,949	1,225,951	724,045	501,906	43.9	25.9	18.0
1907	28,418	1,279,027	701,451	577,576	45.0	24.7	20.3
1908	29,069	1,232,862	692,624	540,238	42.4	23.8	18.6
1909	29,700	1,226,155	744,818	481,337	41.3	25.1	16.2
1910	30,297	1,225,658	839,491	386,167	40.5	27.7	12.7
1911	30,858	1,240,985	670,742	570,243	40.2	21.7	18.5
1912	30,580	1,245,358	654,157	591,201	40.7	21.4	19.3
1913	31,142	1,222,277	715,924	506,353	39.2	23.0	16.3
1914	30,973	1,240,114	716,875	523,239	40.0	23.1	16.9

Between WWI and WWII

	Average population (thousands)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1,000)	Crude death rate (per 1,000)	Natural change (per 1,000)	Fertility rates
1924	27,400	1,150,577	484,880	665,697	41.8	17.6	24.2
1925	28,000	1,185,028	531,819	653,209	42.7	19.2	23.5
1926	28,700	1,207,907	518,656	689,251	42.1	18.1	24.0	5.39
1940 (b)	40,649	1,100,000			27.3			3.80

(a) Information is given for Ukraine's territory within its old boundaries up to September 17, 1939 (b) Information is given for Ukraine's territory within its present-day boundaries, after the annexation of ethnic Ukrainian Polish territories on September 17, 1939

After WW II

The natural population growth of Ukraine since 1950.^{[12][13][14][15]}

  Birth rate

  Death rate

  Natural growth rate

	Average population (thousands)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1,000)	Crude death rate (per 1,000)	Natural change (per 1,000)	Fertility rates	Urban Fertility	Rural Fertility	Abortions, reported
1946		753,493
1947		712,994
1948		757,783
1949		911,641
1950	36,905	844,585	315,300	529,300	22.9	8.5	14.3	2.81
1951	37,569	858,052	327,500	530,600	22.8	8.7	14.1
1952	38,141	846,434	325,700	520,700	22.2	8.5	13.7
1953	38,678	795,652	326,800	468,900	20.6	8.4	12.1
1954	39,131	845,128	318,500	526,600	21.6	8.1	13.5
1955	39,506	792,696	296,200	496,500	20.1	7.5	12.6	2.70
1956	40,082	822,569	293,000	529,600	20.5	7.3	13.2
1957	40,800	847,781	304,800	543,000	20.8	7.5	13.3
1958	41,512	873,483	286,700	586,800	21.0	6.9	14.1	2.30
1959	42,155	880,552	316,800	563,800	20.9	7.5	13.4	2.29
1960	42,469	878,768	296,171	582,597	20.7	7.0	13.7	2.24
1961	43,097	843,482	304,346	539,136	19.6	7.1	12.5	2.17
1962	43,559	823,151	331,454	491,697	18.9	7.6	11.3	2.14
1963	44,088	794,969	323,556	471,413	17.9	7.3	10.6	2.06
1964	44,664	741,668	315,340	426,328	16.5	7.0	9.5	1.96
1965	45,133	692,153	342,717	349,436	15.3	7.6	7.7	1.99
1966	45,548	713,492	344,850	368,642	15.6	7.5	8.1	2.02
1967	45,997	699,381	368,573	330,808	15.1	8.0	7.2	2.01
1968	46,408	693,064	374,440	318,624	14.9	8.0	6.8	1.99
1969	46,778	687,991	404,151	283,840	14.7	8.6	6.0	2.04
1970	47,127	719,213	418,679	300,534	15.2	8.9	6.4	2.10			1,130,315
1971	47,507	736,691	424,717	311,974	15.4	8.9	6.5	2.12
1972	47,903	745,696	443,038	302,658	15.5	9.2	6.3	2.08
1973	48,274	719,560	449,351	270,209	14.9	9.3	5.6	2.04
1974	48,571	736,616	455,970	280,646	15.1	9.4	5.8	2.04
1975	48,881	738,857	489,550	249,307	15.1	10.0	5.1	2.02			1,110,223
1976	49,151	747,069	500,584	246,485	15.2	10.2	5.0	1.99
1977	49,388	726,217	517,967	208,250	14.7	10.5	4.2	1.94
1978	49,578	732,187	529,681	202,506	14.7	10.7	4.1	1.96
1979	49,755	735,188	552,019	183,169	14.7	11.1	3.7	1.96
1980	50,044	742,489	568,243	174,246	14.8	11.4	3.5	1.95			1,197,000
1981	50,222	733,183	568,789	164,394	14.6	11.3	3.3	1.93			1,112,734
1982	50,388	745,591	568,231	177,360	14.8	11.3	3.5	1.94			1,131,437
1983	50,573	807,111	583,496	223,615	16.0	11.6	4.4	2.11			1,125,686
1984	50,768	792,035	610,338	181,697	15.6	12.0	3.6	2.08			1,127,627
1985	50,941	762,775	617,548	145,227	15.0	12.1	2.9	2.02			1,179,000
1986	51,143	792,574	565,150	227,424	15.5	11.1	4.4	2.13			1,166,039
1987	51,373	760,851	586,387	174,464	14.8	11.4	3.4	2.07			1,168,136
1988	51,593	744,056	600,725	143,331	14.4	11.6	2.8	2.04			1,080,029
1989	51,770	690,981	600,590	90,391	13.3	11.6	1.7	1.92	1.78	2.33	1,058,414
1990	51,838	657,202	629,602	27,600	12.7	12.1	0.6	1.84	1.69	2.27	1,019,038
1991	51,944	630,813	669,960	−39,147	12.1	12.9	−0.8	1.77	1.61	2.33	957,022
1992	52,056	596,785	697,110	−100,325	11.4	13.4	−2.0	1.67	1.48	2.19	932,272
1993	52,244	557,467	741,662	−184,195	10.7	14.2	−3.5	1.56	1.37	2.07	860,996
1994	52,114	521,545	764,669	−243,124	10.0	14.7	−4.7	1.47	1.28	1.97	798,538
1995	51,728	492,861	792,587	−299,726	9.6	15.4	−5.8	1.40	1.22	1.86	740,172
1996	51,297	467,211	776,717	−309,506	9.2	15.2	−6.1	1.33	1.16	1.77	687,035
1997	50,818	442,581	754,151	−311,570	8.7	14.9	−6.2	1.27	1.11	1.68	596,740
1998	50,370	419,238	719,954	−300,716	8.4	14.4	−6.0	1.20	1.04	1.62	525,329
1999	49,918	389,208	739,170	−349,962	7.8	14.9	−7.0	1.12	0.97	1.51	495,760
2000	49,429	385,126	758,082	−372,956	7.8	15.4	−7.6	1.11	0.96	1.49	434,223
2001	48,923	376,479	745,953	−369,474	7.7	15.3	−7.6	1.085	0.96	1.41	369,750
2002	48,457	390,687	754,911	−364,224	8.1	15.7	−7.6	1.12	1.03	1.47	345,967
2003	48,003	408,591	765,408	−356,817	8.5	16.0	−7.5	1.17	1.09	1.48	315,835
2004	47,622	427,259	761,263	−334,004	9.0	16.0	−7.0	1.21	1.12	1.53	289,065
2005	47,280	426,085	781,964	−355,879	9.0	16.6	−7.6	1.21	1.16	1.48	263,950
2006	46,929	460,368	758,093	−297,725	9.8	16.2	−6.4	1.31	1.21	1.61	229,618
2007	46,646	472,657	762,877	−290,220	10.2	16.4	−6.2	1.34	1.28	1.69	210,454
2008	46,372	510,588	754,462	−243,874	11.0	16.3	−5.3	1.46	1.31	1.72	201,087
2009	46,143	512,526	706,740	−194,214	11.1	15.3	−4.2	1.46	1.33	1.77	194,845
2010	45,962	497,689	698,235	−200,546	10.8	15.2	−4.4	1.44	1.31	1.78	176,774
2011	45,778	502,595	664,588	−161,993	11.0	14.5	−3.5	1.46	1.32	1.80	156,193
2012	45,633	520,704	663,139	−142,435	11.4	14.5	−3.1	1.53	1.39	1.87	141,396
2013	45,553	503,656	662,368	−158,712	11.1	14.6	−3.5	1.51	1.37	1.83
2014	43,001	465,882	632,296	−166,414	10.8	14.7	−3.9	1.50
2015	42,844	411,783	594,795	−183,012	9.6	13.9	−4.3

(e) estimate

	Urban live births	Urban deaths	Urban natural change	Urban rude birth rate (per 1,000)	Urban rude death rate (per 1,000)	Urban natural change (per 1,000)	Rural live births	Rural deaths	Rural natural change	Rural crude birth rate (per 1,000)	Rural crude death rate (per 1,000)	Rural natural change (per 1,000)
1990	442,869	357,114	85,755	12.7	10.2	2.5	214,333	272,488	−58,155	12.7	16.1	−3.4
1991	419,205	380,988	38,917	11.9	10.8	1.1	211,608	288,972	−77,364	12.6	17.2	−4.6
1992	387,696	401,849	−14,153	11.0	11.4	−0.4	209,089	295,261	−86,172	12.5	17.6	−5.1
1993	356,833	432,462	−75,629	10.1	12.2	−2.1	200,634	309,200	−108,566	12.0	18.5	−6.5
1994	328,522	450,823	−122,301	9.3	12.8	−3.5	193,023	313,846	−120,823	11.6	18.8	−7.2
1995	308,408	476,434	−168,026	8.8	13.6	−4.8	184,453	316,153	−131,700	11.1	19.1	−8.0
1996	291,121	460,805	−169,684	8.4	13.3	−4.9	176,090	315,912	−139,822	10.7	19.2	−8.5
1997	274,961	444,446	−169,485	8.0	13.0	−5.0	167,620	309,705	−142,805	10.2	18.9	−8.7
1998	258,724	425,521	−166,797	7.6	12.6	−5.0	160,514	294,433	−133,919	9.9	18.1	−8.2
1999	239,408	439,986	−200,578	7.1	13.1	−6.0	149,800	299,184	−149,384	9.3	18.5	−9.2
2000	238,014	457,069	−219,055	7.2	13.8	−6.6	147,112	301,013	−153,901	9.2	18.8	−9.6
2001	237,228	450,329	−213,101	7.2	13.8	−6.6	139,250	295,623	−156,373	8.7	18.6	−9.9
2002	248,877	454,406	−205,529	7.7	14.0	−6.3	141,811	300,505	−158,694	9.0	19.1	−10.1
2003	266,415	459,965	−193,550	8.3	14.3	−6.0	142,174	305,443	−163,269	9.1	19.6	−10.5
2004	284,361	460,492	−176,131	8.9	14.4	−5.5	142,898	300,769	−157,871	9.3	19.6	−10.3
2005	284,257	471,561	−187,304	8.9	14.8	−5.9	141,829	310,400	−168,571	9.4	20.5	−11.1
2006	306,635	461,774	−155,139	9.6	14.5	−4.9	153,733	296,318	−142,585	10.3	19.8	−9.5
2007	314,065	466,253	−152,188	9.9	14.7	−4.8	158,592	296,624	−138,032	10.7	20.1	−9.4
2008	340,594	462,897	−122,303	10.8	14.6	−3.8	169,995	291,563	−121,568	11.6	19.9	−8.3
2009	339,497	432,294	−92,797	10.8	13.7	−2.9	173,028	274,445	−101,417	11.9	18.9	−7.0
2010	326,587	431,130	−104,543	10.4	13.7	−3.3	171,102	267,105	−96,003	11.9	18.6	−6.7
2011	328,934	411,025	−82,091	10.5	13.1	−2.3	173,661	253,563	−79,902	12.1	17.7	−5.6
2012	341,599	411,787	−70,788	10.9	13.1	−2.2	179,106	251,352	−72,246	12.6	17.7	−5.1
2013	330,284	412,552	−82,268	10.5	13.1	−2.6	173,372	249,816	−76,444	12.3	17.7	−5.4
2014	304,190	391,739	−87,549	10.2	13.2	−3.0	161,692	240,557	−78,865	12.2	18.1	−5.9

Note: Data excludes Crimea starting in 2014.

Demographic statistics

Current vital statistics

Note: The 2014 statistics, as well as all comparisons between 2014 and 2013, now include Crimea as part of Russia.

The number of births during the months of January–February 2015 decreased by 9907 over the same period in 2014. The birth rate for January–February 2015 was 9.7 per 1,000 population, an decrease over 11.1 during January–February 2014.

The number of Russians decreased by 10% of the total population of Ukraine [or around half of all Russians in Ukraine] because many were exercising Russia's right of return

• Number of births for January–April 2014 = 152,780

• Number of births for January–April 2015 = 134,563

The number of deaths during the same period has decreased from 7807. The mortality rate for January–February 2015 was 15.2 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants of rate of 16.3 during the period of January–February 2014.

• Number of deaths for January–April 2014 = 226,858

• Number of deaths for January–April 2015 = 217,288

During the period of January 2015 the natural increase over the last three years were respectively −5.5 per 1,000 and −5.2 in 2014.

• Natural increase from January–April 2014 = –74,078

• Natural increase from January–April 2015 = −82,725

Birth data by oblast

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

Number of births by oblast for January–February	Birth/2015	Birth/2014	Birth/2013	Birth/2012	Death/2015	Death/2014	Death/2013	Death/2012
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	5516	5831	5890	6067	9523	9015	8694	9040
Kyiv City	5405	5403	5143	5280	5402	5046	4781	4752
Odessa Oblast	4554	4683	4664	4928	6317	6289	5819	6090
Lviv Oblast	4389	4854	4593	4767	5993	5667	5519	5585
Kharkiv Oblast	4085	4411	4206	4288	7663	7063	6897	7156
Kiev Oblast	3219	3330	3369	3463	5013	4719	4696	4855
Donetsk Oblast	2998	6711	6664	6956	6755	13048	11966	12915
Zakarpattia Oblast	2853	3013	2957	3116	2988	2533	2649	2640
Zaporizhia Oblast	2806	3021	3023	2970	5011	4767	4475	4771
Vinnytsia Oblast	2743	2921	2840	3107	4586	4573	4527	4445
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	2570	2746	2733	2739	3160	3195	3061	2986
Rivne Oblast	2541	2785	2724	2992	2529	2562	2376	2529
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	2309	2302	2385	2444	3739	3552	3491	3577
Zhytomyr Oblast	2250	2512	2493	2457	3713	3720	3619	3766
Volyn Oblast	2157	2427	2334	2568	2448	2384	2346	2375
Poltava Oblast	2125	2274	2256	2372	4204	4363	4204	4297
Mykolaiv Oblast	1883	2190	2103	2236	3278	3272	3081	3208
Cherkasy Oblast	1942	2000	1919	2071	3680	3580	3615	3637
Ternopil Oblast	1822	1834	1858	1985	2610	2671	2535	2620
Kherson Oblast	1891	1959	1924	2009	2910	2921	2806	2869
Chernivtsi Oblast	1779	1769	1710	1918	2131	2074	1979	2089
Kirovohrad Oblast	1650	1815	1755	1839	2932	2948	2864	3103
Sumy Oblast	1581	1608	1720	1852	3269	3409	3319	3317
Chernihiv Oblast	1475	1561	1668	1631	3548	3567	3462	3596
Luhansk Oblast	930	3420	3223	3494	2313	6584	6189	6710

Birth rate by oblast for January–February	Birth/2015	Birth/2014	Birth/2013	Birth/2012	Death/2015	Death/2014	Death/2013	Death/2012
Zakarpattia Oblast	14.0	14.8	14.6	15.2	14.7	12.4	13.1	12.9
Rivne Oblast	13.6	14.9	14.6	15.8	13.5	13.7	12.7	13.4
Volyn Oblast	12.8	14.4	13.9	15.1	14.5	14.2	14.0	14.0
Chernivtsi Oblast	12.1	12.0	11.7	12.9	14.5	14.1	13.5	14.1
Odessa Oblast	11.7	12.1	12.0	12.6	16.3	16.2	15.0	15.6
Kyiv City	11.6	11.7	11.2	11.4	11.6	10.9	10.4	10.3
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	11.5	12.3	12.2	12.1	14.1	14.3	13.7	13.2
Kiev Oblast	11.5	11.9	12.1	12.3	17.9	16.9	16.9	17.2
Zhytomyr Oblast	11.1	12.3	12.2	11.8	18.3	18.2	17.7	18.1
Kherson Oblast	11.0	11.3	11.0	11.3	16.9	16.9	16.1	16.2
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	11.0	10.9	11.2	11.3	17.8	16.8	16.4	16.5
Lviv Oblast	10.7	11.8	11.2	11.4	14.6	13.8	13.5	13.4
Vinnytsia Oblast	10.5	11.2	10.8	11.6	17.6	17.5	17.2	16.6
Ternopil Oblast	10.5	10.6	10.7	11.2	15.1	15.4	14.6	14.8
Kirovohrad Oblast	10.4	11.4	10.9	11.2	18.5	18.5	17.8	18.9
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	10.4	11.0	11.0	11.1	18.0	17.0	16.2	16.6
Mykolaiv Oblast	10.0	11.6	11.1	11.6	17.4	17.3	16.3	16.6
Zaporizhia Oblast	9.8	10.5	10.5	10.1	17.6	16.6	15.5	16.2
Cherkasy Oblast	9.6	9.8	9.3	9.9	18.2	17.6	17.6	17.4
Kharkiv Oblast	9.3	10.0	9.5	9.5	17.4	16.0	15.6	15.9
Poltava Oblast	9.1	9.7	9.5	9.8	18.0	18.5	17.7	17.8
Chernihiv Oblast	8.7	9.1	9.6	9.2	20.8	20.7	19.9	20.2
Sumy Oblast	8.7	8.8	9.3	9.8	18.0	18.6	18.0	17.6
Donetsk Oblast	4.3	9.6	9.4	9.6	9.7	18.6	16.9	17.9
Luhansk Oblast	2.6	9.5	8.9	9.4	6.5	18.2	17.0	18.0

Number of births by oblast	Birth/2014	Birth/2013	Birth/2012	Birth/2011	Death/2014	Death/2013	Death/2012	Death/2011
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	36497	36134	37087	36116	52722	51134	51486	52106
Donetsk Oblast	35595	41034	42839	41720	71799	69345	70496	71042
Kyiv City	34821	33305	33887	32068	29992	28003	27840	27050
Lviv Oblast	30270	29542	30220	28904	32450	31666	31667	31162
Odessa Oblast	29465	29075	30384	29225	34155	33523	33648	33688
Kharkiv Oblast	27690	26700	27244	26317	41891	39465	40130	40079
Kiev Oblast	20900	20511	20966	20083	28264	27198	27161	26847
Zaporizhia Oblast	18713	18134	18882	18198	27773	26498	26406	27033
Zakarpattia Oblast	18377	18490	18968	18460	14808	14801	14813	14588
Vinnytsia Oblast	17547	17437	18339	17894	25567	25453	25158	25376
Rivne Oblast	17169	17445	18316	17697	14714	14556	14302	14168
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	16886	16716	17101	16497	17670	17358	16801	16657
Zhytomyr Oblast	15115	15001	15486	15154	21185	20859	20685	20417
Volyn Oblast	14668	14700	15346	14620	13748	13666	13710	13842
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	14631	14548	14881	14492	20408	20581	20362	20116
Poltava Oblast	14504	14296	14635	14167	24784	24358	24223	24384
Mykolaiv Oblast	13076	13043	13515	13029	17750	17353	17277	17441
Cherkasy Oblast	12351	12100	12798	12473	20800	20477	20667	20848
Kherson Oblast	12308	12300	12643	12085	16141	16048	15904	15828
Ternopil Oblast	11717	11807	12202	11964	15180	14682	14838	14829
Chernivtsi Oblast	11679	11465	11592	11281	11619	11520	11321	11192
Luhansk Oblast	11442	20531	21743	21320	22755	35822	36316	37256
Kirovohrad Oblast	10576	10562	11029	10578	16716	16513	16521	16697
Sumy Oblast	10344	10411	11093	10473	19452	19219	19002	18833
Chernihiv Oblast	9552	9852	10222	10134	20324	19909	20208	20179

Birth rate by oblast	Birth/2014	Birth/2013	Birth/2012	Birth/2011	Death/2014	Death/2013	Death/2012	Death/2011
Rivne Oblast	14.8	15.1	15.9	15.3	12.7	12.6	12.4	12.3
Zakarpattia Oblast	14.6	14.7	15.1	14.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.7
Volyn Oblast	14.1	14.1	14.8	14.1	13.2	13.1	13.2	13.3
Chernivtsi Oblast	12.9	12.6	12.8	12.5	12.8	12.7	12.5	12.4
Odessa Oblast	12.3	12.1	12.7	12.2	14.3	14.0	14.1	14.1
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	12.2	12.1	12.4	12.0	12.8	12.6	12.2	12.1
Kiev Oblast	12.1	11.9	12.2	11.7	16.4	15.8	15.8	15.6
Kyiv City	12.1	11.7	12.0	11.4	10.4	9.8	9.8	9.6
Zhytomyr Oblast	12.0	11.9	12.2	11.9	16.8	16.5	16.3	16.0
Lviv Oblast	11.9	11.6	11.9	11.4	12.8	12.4	12.5	12.3
Kherson Oblast	11.5	11.4	11.7	11.1	15.1	14.9	14.7	14.6
Mykolaiv Oblast	11.2	11.1	11.5	11.0	15.2	14.8	14.7	14.8
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	11.2	11.1	11.3	11.0	15.6	15.7	15.5	15.2
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	11.1	11.0	11.2	10.9	16.0	15.5	15.5	15.7
Vinnytsia Oblast	10.9	10.8	11.2	10.9	15.9	15.7	15.4	15.5
Ternopil Oblast	10.9	11.0	11.3	11.1	14.2	13.7	13.8	13.7
Kirovohrad Oblast	10.8	10.7	11.0	10.5	17.0	16.7	16.5	16.6
Zaporizhia Oblast	10.6	10.2	10.6	10.1	15.7	14.9	14.8	15.0
Kharkiv Oblast	10.1	9.8	9.9	9.6	15.3	14.4	14.6	14.6
Poltava Oblast	10.0	9.8	9.9	9.5	17.1	16.7	16.5	16.4
Cherkasy Oblast	9.8	9.6	10.1	9.8	16.5	16.2	16.2	16.3
Sumy Oblast	9.2	9.2	9.7	9.1	17.2	16.9	16.6	16.3
Chernihiv Oblast	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.3	19.2	18.6	18.7	18.5
Donetsk Oblast	8.2	9.4	9.8	9.5	16.6	15.9	16.1	16.1
Luhansk Oblast	5.1	9.1	9.6	9.3	10.2	15.9	16.0	16.3

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 Kiev, 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 Odessa (respectively, −55, −642, −863, −2,124, −2,875, −2,974, −3,748 and −4,448 people). The largest declines were recorded in Donetsk, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, 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

0.3 migrant(s)/1,002 population (2008)^[16]

Infant mortality rate

• 9.1 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 4,564 deaths. (2010)
• 9.0 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 4,511 deaths. (2011)
• 8.4 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 4,371 deaths. (2012)
• 8.0 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 4,030 deaths. (2013)
• 8.9 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 2,193 death for January–June 2011
• 8.6 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 2,190 death for January–June 2012
• 7.8 deaths/1,000 infants live births for 1,993 deaths for January–June 2013^[17]

Infant mortality by oblast	Death/2012	Death/2011	Death/2010	Death/2009
Donetsk Oblast	540	473	497	533
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	370	343	347	329
Odessa Oblast	267	268	263	280
Kyiv City	262	255	233	244
Lviv Oblast	233	272	266	238
Kharkiv Oblast	203	234	243	252
Zakarpattia Oblast	168	195	199	238
Vinnytsia Oblast	166	186	148	149
Luhansk Oblast	165	188	199	252
Zaporizhia Oblast	154	169	182	174
Rivne Oblast	147	156	158	164
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	134	89	109	174
Zhytomyr Oblast	124	134	135	127
Cherkasy Oblast	122	101	125	132
Kiev Oblast	119	143	140	146
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	109	145	170	157
Volyn Oblast	106	116	123	118
Kirovohrad Oblast	103	139	112	119
Kherson Oblast	100	120	116	136
Mykolaiv Oblast	97	97	104	112
Ternopil Oblast	97	96	98	93
Chernihiv Oblast	94	80	82	103
Chernivtsi Oblast	92	96	90	91
Poltava Oblast	85	86	87	105
Sumy Oblast	76	78	97	91

Infant mortality per 1,000 by Oblast	Death/2012	Death/2011	Death/2010	Death/2009
Donetsk Oblast	12.7	11.4	12.0	12.3
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	10.0	9.5	9.7	8.8
Cherkasy Oblast	9.6	8.1	10.0	10.5
Kirovohrad Oblast	9.4	13.2	10.6	10.9
Chernihiv Oblast	9.2	7.9	8.1	9.9
Vinnytsia Oblast	9.1	10.4	8.4	8.3
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	9.0	6.2	7.5	11.8
Zakarpattia Oblast	8.9	10.6	10.9	13.1
Odessa Oblast	8.8	9.2	9.2	9.7
Zaporizhia Oblast	8.2	9.3	10.1	9.4
Rivne Oblast	8.1	8.9	9.2	9.4
Kherson Oblast	8.0	9.9	9.4	11.0
Zhytomyr Oblast	8.0	8.9	9.1	8.5
Chernivtsi Oblast	8.0	8.5	8.2	8.2
Ternopil Oblast	8.0	8.0	8.2	7.5
Lviv Oblast	7.8	9.4	9.2	8.0
Kyiv City	7.8	8.0	7.3	7.5
Luhansk Oblast	7.6	8.8	9.4	11.6
Kharkiv Oblast	7.5	8.9	9.2	9.3
Mykolaiv Oblast	7.3	7.5	8.1	8.5
Volyn Oblast	7.0	7.9	8.2	7.7
Sumy Oblast	6.9	7.5	9.3	8.5
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	6.4	8.8	10.3	9.1
Poltava Oblast	5.8	6.1	6.1	7.1
Kiev Oblast	5.7	7.2	7.0	7.1

Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth in Ukraine by oblast in 2013

• total population: 71.37 years
• male: 66.34 years
• female: 76.22 years (2013 official)

Total fertility rate

• 6.00 children born/woman (1913 est.)

• 5.39 children born/woman (1925 est.)

• 1.08 children born/woman (2001)

• 1.46 children born/woman (2011)

• 1.53 children born/woman (2012)

• 1.51 children born/woman (2013)

In 2001 Ukraine recorded the lowest fertility rate ever recorded in Europe for an independent country: 1.08 child/woman. During this year the number of children born was less than half of that born in 1987. Lower rates were recorded only in former East Germany, which registered 0.77 child/woman in 1994, as well as Taiwan (from 2008 to 2010), and both Hong Kong and Macau (from about 2000 to 2010). After neglect by the Kuchma administration, both the Yushchenko and the Yanukovych governments have made increasing the birth rate a priority.

Total fertility rate by oblast

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 Odessa 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), Kiev 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 Zaporizhia Oblast (1.32).

Children born per woman by oblast	Total fertility rate/2013	Total fertility rate/2012	Total fertility rate/2011	Total fertility rate/2010
Rivne Oblast	2.00	2.08	1.99	1.93
Zakarpattia Oblast	1.93	1.95	1.90	1.83
Volyn Oblast	1.86	1.92	1.81	1.85
Zhytomyr Oblast	1.68	1.71	1.65	1.61
Odessa Oblast	1.65	1.71	1.62	1.58
Kiev Oblast	1.64	1.67	1.58	1.58
Chernivtsi Oblast	1.63	1.64	1.58	1.53
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	1.61	1.62	1.56	1.55
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	1.60	1.63	1.55	1.58
Kherson Oblast	1.60	1.61	1.51	1.51
Kirovohrad Oblast	1.57	1.61	1.51	1.50
Lviv Oblast	1.55	1.58	1.49	1.50
Mykolaiv Oblast	1.55	1.57	1.47	1.44
Vinnytsia Oblast	1.53	1.59	1.53	1.50
Ukraine	1.51	1.53	1.46	1.45
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	1.51	1.52	1.44	1.43
Ternopil Oblast	1.48	1.50	1.45	1.46
Zaporizhia Oblast	1.43	1.46	1.37	1.34
Poltava Oblast	1.40	1.41	1.33	1.34
Cherkasy Oblast	1.38	1.43	1.37	1.36
Chernihiv Oblast	1.37	1.40	1.36	1.36
Kyiv City	1.36	1.38	1.29	1.30
Donetsk Oblast	1.32	1.34	1.27	1.26
Kharkiv Oblast	1.32	1.32	1.25	1.24
Sumy Oblast	1.30	1.36	1.25	1.23
Luhansk Oblast	1.30	1.33	1.27	1.23

Statistic rate of regional capitals

Birth rate in regional centers	Birth/2012	Birth/2011	Birth/2010	Birth/2009	Birth/2007	Birth/2005	Birth/2003
Simferopol	13.6	12.8	11.8	11.8	11.0	9.5	9.2
Lutsk	12.6	12.3	12.6	13.9	12.6	11.7	10.0
Rivne	12.6	12.0	11.8	12.3	10.9	10.1	9.4
Uzhhorod	12.1	11.9	12.0	12.4	12.8	12.6	10.8
Kiev	12.0	11.4	11.5	11.7	10.4	9.8	8.8
Khmelnytskyi	12.0	11.2	11.8	11.5	10.4	10.2	9.2
Sevastopol	12.0	11.1	11.0	11.2	10.5	9.6	8.7
Kherson	11.9	11.1	10.1	10.5	9.6	8.6	8.5
Ternopil	11.8	12.2	11.7	12.3	11.9	11.6	10.4
Ivano-Frankivsk	11.6	11.6	10.1	10.8	11.3	10.7	9.3
Vinnytsia	11.5	11.2	10.9	11.1	10.1	9.4	9.1
Kirovohrad	11.5	11.1	10.5	11.3	10.5	8.9	8.4
Zhytomyr	11.4	11.5	10.8	11.7	10.6	9.5	8.7
Sumy	11.3	10.3	10.0	10.3	9.6	8.2	7.8
Lviv	11.0	10.4	10.0	10.5	9.7	9.3	9.0
Ukraine Urban	10.9	10.5	10.4	10.8	9.9	8.9	8.3
Dnipropetrovsk	10.5	10.2	10.0	10.5	9.4	8.5	7.9
Luhansk	10.5	9.8	8.8	9.2	8.2	7.4	6.8
Chernivtsi	10.2	10.3	10.1	10.2	9.2	9.6	8.3
Odessa	10.1	9.8	9.6	9.9	9.0	8.3	7.5
Cherkassy	9.9	9.4	9.4	9.4	8.7	7.8	7.4
Poltava	9.9	9.1	8.8	9.7	8.4	7.8	7.3
Zaporizhia	9.5	9.2	9.2	9.3	8.9	8.2	7.5
Mykolaiv	9.4	9.3	9.1	9.4	8.7	8.0	7.9
Chernihiv	9.3	9.2	9.1	9.6	8.4	8.0	7.6
Kharkiv	9.2	8.9	8.8	9.2	8.4	7.6	7.1
Donetsk	9.1	8.7	8.6	9.0	8.2	7.5	6.6

Death rate in regional centers	Death/2012	Death/2011	Death/2010	Death/2009	Death/2007	Death/2005	Death/2003
Kherson	15.2	15.6	14.0	14.2	14.9	14.8	14.5
Luhansk	14.2	14.3	13.6	13.4	13.8	14.2	14.1
Simferopol	14.0	14.8	13.6	13.8	15.3	15.3	15.2
Sevastopol	13.7	14.1	14.7	14.5	15.5	15.4	14.1
Kirovohrad	13.7	13.7	13.8	14.0	14.4	14.1	14.1
Dnipropetrovsk	13.5	13.7	14.1	13.8	15.1	15.1	16.0
Donetsk	13.4	13.5	14.0	13.9	15.2	15.4	14.7
Zaporizhia	13.2	13.4	14.2	13.8	15.0	14.7	14.2
Ukraine Urban	13.1	13.1	13.7	13.7	14.7	14.8	14.3
Mykolaiv	12.8	12.8	13.8	13.8	14.5	14.5	14.9
Poltava	12.8	12.6	13.2	13.0	13.7	13.6	13.6
Sumy	12.1	11.9	12.4	12.6	13.0	13.1	11.9
Kharkiv	12.0	11.8	12.4	12.2	13.1	13.1	13.0
Odessa	11.9	12.2	13.0	12.5	13.9	14.1	14.0
Cherkassy	11.2	10.7	11.3	11.2	11.7	11.7	11.0
Chernihiv	11.4	11.1	12.0	11.8	12.5	12.4	12.0
Lviv	11.0	10.8	10.5	10.8	11.5	11.4	11.5
Zhytomyr	10.7	10.9	11.2	11.1	12.0	12.2	11.4
Uzhhorod	10.3	10.2	10.5	11.3	12.0	12.4	10.3
Kiev	9.8	9.6	10.3	10.2	11.4	11.2	10.7
Lutsk	9.6	9.4	9.6	9.1	10.4	10.2	10.5
Chernivtsi	9.5	9.4	9.9	10.3	11.0	11.0	10.8
Khmelnytskyi	9.4	8.8	9.0	9.5	9.8	9.8	9.2
Vinnytsia	9.1	9.0	9.2	9.2	10.2	10.2	10.0
Ivano-Frankivsk	9.1	8.7	8.2	8.5	9.1	9.3	9.3
Ternopil	8.1	7.6	8.1	7.7	8.5	8.5	7.7
Rivne	7.9	7.8	8.7	8.6	9.0	9.2	8.8

Ethnic groups

National structure of the population of Ukraine (2001).

  Ukrainians

  Russians

  Others

UkrainianIn 2001 year, 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Romanian 0.8% (including Moldovan 0.5%), Belarusian 0.6%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, Pontic Greeks 0.2% and other 1.6% (including Muslim Bulgarians, otherwise known as Torbesh and a microcosm of Gotlander Swedes of Gammalsvenskby).^[18]

Ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine by oblast (2001 census)

Ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine by raions (2001 census)

Before World War II

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

Ethnic group	census 1926^1		census 1939^2
	Number	%	Number	%
Ukrainians	23,218,860	80.0	23,667,509	76.5
Russians	2,677,166	9.2	4,175,299	13.5
Jews	1,574,428	5.4	1,532,776	5.0
Germans	393,924	1.4	392,458	1.3
Poles	476,435	1.6	357,710	1.2
Moldavians / Romanians	257,794	0.9	230,698	0.8
Belarusians	75,842	0.3	158,174	0.5
Pontic Greeks	104,666	0.4	107,047	0.4
Bulgarians	99,278	0.3	83,838	0.3
Tatars	22,281	0.1	55,456	0.2
Romani	13,578	0.0	10,443	0.0
Others	103,935	0.4	174,810	0.6
Total	29,018,187		30,946,218
^1 Source: . ^2 Source: .

After World War II

Population of Ukraine according to ethnic group 1959-2001

Ethnic group	census 1959^1		census 1970^2		census 1979^3		census 1989^4		census 2001^5
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Ukrainians	32,158,493	76.8	35,283,857	74.9	36,488,951	73.6	37,419,053	72.7	37,541,693	77.5
Russians	7,090,813	16.9	9,126,331	19.4	10,471,602	21.1	11,355,582	22.1	8,334,141	17.2
Moldavians / Romanians	341,512	0.8	378,043	0.8	415,371	0.9	459,420	0.9	409,608	0.8
Belarusians	290,890	0.7	385,847	0.8	406,098	0.8	440,045	0.9	275,763	0.6
Crimean Tatars	193	0.0	3,554	0.0	6,636	0.0	46,807	0.1	248,193	0.5
Bulgarians	219,419	0.5	234,390	0.5	238,217	0.5	233,800	0.5	204,574	0.4
Hungarians	149,229	0.4	157,731	0.3	164,373	0.3	163,111	0.3	156,566	0.3
Poles	363,297	0.9	295,107	0.6	258,309	0.5	219,179	0.4	144,130	0.3
Jews	840,311	2.0	777,126	1.7	634,154	1.3	486,628	1.0	103,591	0.2
Armenians	28,024	0.1	33,439	0.1	38,646	0.1	54,200	0.1	99,894	0.2
Greeks	104,359	0.3	106,909	0.2	104,091	0.2	98,594	0.2	91,548	0.2
Tatars	61,334	0.2	72,658	0.2	83,906	0.2	86,875	0.2	73,304	0.2
Romani	22,515	0.1	30,091	0.1	34,411	0.1	47,917	0.1	47,587	0.1
Azerbaijanis	6,680	0.0	10,769	0.0	17,235	0.0	36,961	0.1	45,176	0.1
Georgians	11,574	0.0	14,650	0.0	16,301	0.0	23,540	0.1	34,199	0.1
Germans	23,243	0.1	29,871	0.1	34,139	0.1	37,849	0.1	33,302	0.1
Gagauzs	23,530	0.1	26,464	0.1	29,398	0.1	31,967	0.1	31,923	0.1
Karaites	3,301	0.0	2,596	0.0	1,845	0.0	1,404	0.0	1,196	0.0
Others	129,338	0.3	157,084	0.3	165,650	0.3	209,172	0.4	539,604	1.1
Total	41,869,046		47,126,517		49,609,333		51,452,034		48,416,000
^1 Source: . ^2 Source: . ^3 Source: . ^4 Source: . ^5 Source: .

Languages

Population with Ukrainian as their native language in Ukraine by oblast (2001 census)

The majority language by city, town, and village councils according to 2001 census.

The most common native languages in regions and the biggest cities, according to the 2001 census (orange: Ukrainian, blue: Russian, dark green: Romanian, purple: Hungarian, light green: Moldovan, pink: Bulgarian)

According to the latest census that took place, in Ukraine are common following languages Ukrainian 67.5%, Russian 29.6%, Crimean Tatar, Urum (Turkic Greeks), Bulgarian, Moldovan, Polish, Hungarian. The below table gives the total population of various ethnic groups in Ukraine and the primary language, according to the 2000 census.^[18]

Primary language by ethnic group

Ethnic group	Population	Native	Ukrainian	Russian	Other
Ukrainians	37,541,693	31,970,728	–	5,544,729	532
Russians	8,334,141	7,993,832	328,152	–	402
Romanians/Moldovans	409,598	319,646	37,412	47,907	26
Belarusians	275,763	54,573	48,202	172,251	–
Crimean Tatars	248,193	228,373	184	15,208	43
Bulgarians	204,574	131,237	10,277	62,067	9
Hungarians	156,566	149,431	5,367	1,513	14
Poles	144,130	18,660	102,268	22,495	390
Jews	103,591	3,213	13,924	85,964	16
Armenians	99,894	50,363	5,798	43,105	11
Greeks	91,548	5,829	4,359	80,992	9
Tatars	73,304	25,770	3,310	43,060	6
Romani people	47,587	21,266	10,039	6,378	6
Azerbaijanis	45,176	23,958	3,224	16,968	36
Georgians	34,199	12,539	2,818	18,589	15
Germans	33,302	4,056	7,360	21,549	20
Gagauzs	31,923	22,822	1,102	7,232	2
Koreans	12,711	2,223	700	9,662	0
Uzbeks	12,353	3,604	1,818	5,996	0
Chuvash	10,593	2,268	564	7,636	1
Mordvinians	9,331	1,473	646	7,168	0
Turks	8,844	7,923	133	567	0
Lithuanians	7,207	1,932	1,029	4,182	4
Arabs	6,575	4,071	897	1,235	0
Slovaks	6,397	2,633	2,665	335	0
Czechs	5,917	1,190	2,503	2,144	2
Kazakhs	5,526	1,041	822	3,470	11
Latvians	5,079	957	872	3,188	1
Ossetians	4,834	1,150	401	3,110	4
Udmurts	4,712	729	380	3,515	0
Lezghinians	4,349	1,507	330	2,341	4
Tadjiks	4,255	1,521	488	1,983	0
Bashkirs	4,253	843	336	2,920	0
Mari people	4,130	1,059	264	2,758	7
Thai	3,850	3,641	29	164	0
Turkmens	3,709	719	1,079	1,392	0
Albanians	3,308	1,740	301	1,181	0
Assyrians	3,143	883	408	1,730	0
Chechens	2,877	1,581	212	977	0
Estonians	2,868	416	321	2,107	4
Chinese people	2,213	1,817	73	307	0
Kurds	2,088	1,173	236	396	0
Darghins	1,610	409	199	955	0
Komis	1,545	330	127	1,046	0
Karelians	1,522	96	145	1,244	1
Avars	1,496	582	121	761	0
Indo-Pakistanis	1,483	1,092	26	192	0
Abkhazians	1,458	317	268	797	0
Karaites	1,196	72	160	931	0
Komi-Permians	1,165	160	79	898	1
Kyrgyz people	1,128	208	221	617	19
Laks	1,019	199	271	514	13
Afghanis	1,008	551	60	213	0
other	3,228	1,027	144	790	0
NA	188,639	0	1,108	1,844	1

Native languages according to 2001 census

Ukrainian		Russian		Romanian and Moldovan

Crimean-tatar		Bulgarian		Hungarian

Religion

Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchy 39.8%, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) 29.4%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 14.1%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 2.8%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, Protestant 2.4%, Islam 0.6%, Jewish 0.2%, other 2% (2008 est.)^[19]

Regional differences

Regional differences in population change

Natural population growth rates by oblast (2009).

Between the Soviet census of 1989 and the Ukrainian census of 2001, Ukraine's population declined from 51,706,600 to 48,457,020,^[20] a loss of 2,926,700 people or 5.7% of the 1989 population. However, this trend has been quite uneven and varied regionally. Two regions in western Ukraine — Rivne and Zakarpattia, saw slight population increases of .3% and .5% respectively. A third western Ukrainian region, Volyn, lost less than .1% of its population between 1989 and 2001.^[20] 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.^[20]

Between 1989 and 2001, the population of Kiev City increased by .3% ^[20] due to positive net-migration. 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.^[20] Chernihiv region, in central Ukraine northeast of Kiev, lost 170,600 people or 12% of its 1989 population, the highest percentage loss in of any region in Ukraine. In southern Ukraine, Odessa region lost 173,600 people, or 6.6% of its 1989 population. By 2001, Crimea's population declined by 29,900 people, representing only 1.4% of the 1989 population.^[20]

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.^[21] 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.^[20]

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

Natural population growth

All population, 2012		Urban population, 2009		Rural population, 2009

Regional differences in birth and fertility rates

The birth rate in Ukraine, 2003.

The birth rate in Ukraine, 2010.

Ukraine's total fertility rate is one of the lowest in Europe.^[22][23] 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.^[24] Volyn's birthrate is higher than the average birth rate of any European country with the exceptions of Iceland and Albania.^[25]

In 2007, for the first time since 1990, five Ukrainian regions (Zakarpattia Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Lviv Oblast, and Kiev Oblast) experienced more births than deaths.^[26] 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.^[26]

With the exception of Kiev region, all of the regions with more births than deaths were in the less industrially developed regions of western Ukraine. According to a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Justice, the overall ratio of births to deaths in Ukraine had improved from 1 to 1.7 in 2004–2005 to 1 to 1.4 in 2008. However, the worst birth to death ratios in the country were in the eastern and central oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherkasy and Poltava. In these regions, for every birth there were 2.1 deaths.^[27]

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 Odessa 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.^[28] Donetsk and Dniproptrovsk oblasts in eastern and central Ukraine have the country's highest rate of abortions.^[29]

Regional differences and death rates and health

The death rate in Ukraine, 2010.

Death rates also vary widely by region; Eastern and southern Ukraine have the highest death rates in the country, and the life expectancy for children born in Chernigov, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kirovograd, Lugansk, Nikolaev, and Odessa regions is 1.5 years lower than the national average.^[30]

Ukraine had a suicide rate of 29.6 per 100,000 population in 1998, a significant increase from the suicide rate of 19 per 100,000 in 1988. Suicides are more frequent in the industrially developed regions and in the rural areas of the country than in the cities; In western Ukraine, the suicide rate was lower than the national average at 11.1 per 100,000.^[31]

The Southern and eastern Ukrainian regions also suffer from the highest rates of HIV and AIDS, which impacts life expectancy. In late 2000, 60% of all AIDS cases in Ukraine were concentrated in the Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk regions.^[32] 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.^[33]

Regional differences in income

In terms of income, the rural western and central regions of Ukraine are the poorest while Kiev and the industrialized eastern regions of Ukraine are the wealthiest. In December 2010 the average monthly income in Ukraine was 2629 hryvnias. The poorest regions in Ukraine, Volyn and Chernihiv, had monthly incomes of 1995 and 1951 hryvnias, respectively. In contrast, the monthly income in the city of Kiev was 4174 hryvnias per month, the city of Sevastopol 2712 hryvnias per month, and in Kiev region was 2647 per month. Outside of the capital and the city of Sevastopol, the wealthiest regions were Donetsk and Luhansk, whose monthly incomes were 2654 and 2631 hryvnias per month, respectively.^[34]

In terms of poverty rates, the western and southern regions of Ukraine (particularly rural areas within those regions) have the country's highest poverty rates while Ukraine's eastern regions have the lowest poverty rates. In 2001, 39 percent of Ukraine's population could be defined as poor when the World Bank's poverty threshold of a dollar per day per capita was used. According to these standards, 49 percent of rural western Ukrainians and 45 percent of urban western Ukrainians were poor. In southern Ukraine, the percentages of poor were 51 and 40 percent, respectively. In contrast, 35% of urban and rural Ukrainians were poor based on per capita income less than one dollar per day in the regions of Eastern Ukraine. When poverty was measured according to the percentage of the population who spent 80% or more of their income on food, regional differences shrank somewhat. In the western regions of Ukraine, 28 percent of rural residents and 9 percent of urban residents spent 80% of their income or more on food. In Ukraine's eastern regions, 19 percent of rural and 11 percent of urban residents spent 80% or more of their income on food.^[35]

Urbanization

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

Migration

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

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

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.^[36]

By the early 2000s, Ukrainian embassies reported that 300,000 Ukrainian citizens were working in Poland, 200,000 in Italy, approximately 200,000 in the Czech Republic, 150,000 in Portugal, 100,000 in Spain, 35,000 in Turkey, 20,000 in the United States and small significant numbers in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. The largest number of Ukrainian workers abroad, about one million, are in the Russian Federation. Since 1992, 232,072 persons born in Ukraine have emigrated to the US.

From the point of view of the economic impact on natives, more appropriate than the absolute numbers is the volume of immigration as a proportion of the native population. Excluding the Russian Federation, Portugal and the Czech Republic have the highest rate of Ukrainian emigrants as a proportion of the native population, while the much larger Italy has the largest absolute confirmed number of Ukrainian emigrants (leaving aside Poland, for which there is conflicting data).

See also

• Health in Ukraine
• Demographic history of Crimea
• Ethnic groups in Ukraine

General:

• Aging of Europe

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• Vallin, Jacques; Meslé, France; Adamets, Serguei; Pyrozhkov, Serhii (2002). "A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses during the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s" (PDF). Population Studies 56 (3): 249–264. doi:10.1080/00324720215934.
• Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine