2001 Ukrainian census explained

The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.^[1] The next Ukrainian census was planned to be held in 2011 but has been repeatedly postponed.^{[2] [3]}

The total population recorded in 2001 was 48,457,100 persons, of which the urban population was 32,574,500 (67.2%), rural: 15,882,600 (32.8%), male: 22,441,400 (46.3%), female: 26,015,700 (53.7%). The total permanent population recorded was 48,241,000 persons.

Settlements

There were 454 cities: Nine had a population over 500,000. The census recorded over 130 nationalities.

Actual population by regions

Region	Population, 2001 (thousands)	Population, 1989 (thousands)	Change (percent)
	align=right	2033.7	align=right	2063.6	align=right	99
	align=right	1402.9	align=right	1531.5	align=right	92
	align=right	1245.3	align=right	1415.9	align=right	88
	align=right	922.8	align=right	938.0	align=right	98
	align=right	3567.6	align=right	3881.2	align=right	92
	align=right	4841.1	align=right	5332.4	align=right	91
	align=right	1409.8	align=right	1423.5	align=right	99
	align=right	2914.2	align=right	3195.0	align=right	91
	align=right	1175.1	align=right	1240.0	align=right	95
	align=right	1430.8	align=right	1527.1	align=right	94
	align=right	1133.1	align=right	1239.4	align=right	91
	align=right	1827.9	align=right	1940.0	align=right	94
	align=right	2546.2	align=right	2862.7	align=right	89
	align=right	2626.5	align=right	2747.7	align=right	94
	align=right	1264.7	align=right	1330.6	align=right	95
Odesa Oblast	2469.0	align=right	2642.6	align=right	93
	align=right	1630.1	align=right	1753.0	align=right	93
	align=right	1173.3	align=right	1169.7	align=right	100
	align=right	1299.7	align=right	1432.7	align=right	91
	align=right	1142.4	align=right	1168.9	align=right	98
	align=right	1772.4	align=right	1932.6	align=right	92
	align=right	1060.7	align=right	1061.2	align=right	100
	align=right	1258.3	align=right	1252.3	align=right	100
	align=right	1929.2	align=right	2081.8	align=right	93
	align=right	1389.5	align=right	1545.4	align=right	90
Kyiv (city)	align=right	2611.3	align=right	2602.8	align=right	100
Sevastopol (city)	align=right	379.5	align=right	395.0	align=right	96

Source: Total number of actual population. 2001 Ukrainian Population Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine

Urban and rural population by regions

Region	Urban Population (thousands)	Rural Population (thousands)	Urban Population (percent) !	Rural Population (percent)
	align=right	1274.3	align=right	759.4	align=right	63	align=right	37
	align=right	753.6	align=right	649.3	align=right	54	align=right	46
	align=right	727.2	align=right	518.1	align=right	58	align=right	42
	align=right	373.5	align=right	549.3	align=right	40	align=right	60
	align=right	2960.3	align=right	607.3	align=right	83	align=right	17
	align=right	4363.6	align=right	477.5	align=right	90	align=right	10
	align=right	593.0	align=right	816.8	align=right	42	align=right	58
	align=right	2288.7	align=right	625.5	align=right	79	align=right	21
	align=right	706.2	align=right	468.9	align=right	60	align=right	40
	align=right	729.6	align=right	701.2	align=right	51	align=right	49
	align=right	682.0	align=right	451.1	align=right	60	align=right	40
	align=right	1053.5	align=right	774.4	align=right	58	align=right	42
	align=right	2190.8	align=right	355.4	align=right	86	align=right	14
	align=right	1558.7	align=right	1067.8	align=right	59	align=right	41
	align=right	838.8	align=right	425.9	align=right	66	align=right	34
Odesa Oblast	1624.6	align=right	844.4	align=right	66	align=right	34
	align=right	956.8	align=right	673.3	align=right	59	align=right	41
	align=right	549.7	align=right	623.6	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	842.9	align=right	456.8	align=right	65	align=right	35
	align=right	485.6	align=right	656.8	align=right	43	align=right	57
	align=right	818.9	align=right	953.5	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	533.2	align=right	527.5	align=right	50	align=right	50
	align=right	466.0	align=right	792.3	align=right	37	align=right	63
	align=right	1458.2	align=right	471.0	align=right	76	align=right	24
	align=right	775.4	align=right	614.1	align=right	56	align=right	44
Kyiv (city)	align=right	2611.3	align=right	-	align=right	100	align=right	-
Sevastopol (city)	align=right	358.1	align=right	21.4	align=right	94	align=right	6

Source: Urban and rural population. 2001 Ukrainian Population Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine

Gender structure by regions

Region	Male (thousands)	Female (thousands)	Male (percent) !	Female (percent)
	align=right	937.6	align=right	1096.1	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	638.8	align=right	764.2	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	565.5	align=right	679.7	align=right	45	align=right	55
	align=right	432.1	align=right	490.7	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	1643.3	align=right	1924.3	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	2219.9	align=right	2621.2	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	665.2	align=right	744.5	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	1339.5	align=right	1574.7	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	548.5	align=right	626.6	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	659.9	align=right	770.8	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	520.8	align=right	612.2	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	845.9	align=right	982.0	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	1169.9	align=right	1376.3	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	1245.1	align=right	1381.4	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	588.2	align=right	676.6	align=right	47	align=right	53
Odesa Oblast	1155.4	align=right	1313.6	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	747.4	align=right	882.7	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	555.6	align=right	617.7	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	593.8	align=right	705.9	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	530.2	align=right	612.3	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	809.6	align=right	962.8	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	500.1	align=right	560.6	align=right	47	align=right	53
	align=right	605.5	align=right	652.8	align=right	48	align=right	52
	align=right	886.6	align=right	1042.6	align=right	46	align=right	54
	align=right	644.8	align=right	744.7	align=right	46	align=right	54
Kyiv (city)	align=right	1218.7	align=right	1392.7	align=right	47	align=right	53
Sevastopol (city)	align=right	173.5	align=right	206.0	align=right	46	align=right	54

Source: Gender structure of the population. 2001 Ukrainian Population Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine

National structure

Region	Population, 2001 (thousands)	Population, 2001 (percent)	Population, 1989 (percent) !	Change (percent)
	align=right	37541.7	align=right	77.8	align=right	72.7	align=right	100.3
	align=right	8334.1	align=right	17.3	align=right	22.1	align=right	73.4
	align=right	275.8	align=right	0.6	align=right	0.9	align=right	62.7
	align=right	258.6	align=right	0.5	align=right	0.6	align=right	79.7
	align=right	248.2	align=right	0.5	align=right	0	align=right	530.0
	align=right	204.6	align=right	0.4	align=right	0.5	align=right	87.5
	align=right	156.6	align=right	0.3	align=right	0.4	align=right	96.0
	align=right	151.0	align=right	0.3	align=right	0.3	align=right	112.0
	align=right	144.1	align=right	0.3	align=right	0.4	align=right	65.8
	align=right	103.6	align=right	0.2	align=right	0.9	align=right	21.3
	align=right	99.9	align=right	0.2	align=right	0.1	align=right	180.0
	align=right	91.5	align=right	0.2	align=right	0.2	align=right	92.9
	align=right	73.3	align=right	0.2	align=right	0.2	align=right	84.4
	align=right	47.6	align=right	0.1	align=right	0.1	align=right	99.3
	align=right	45.2	align=right	0.1	align=right	0	align=right	122.2
	align=right	34.2	align=right	0.1	align=right	0	align=right	145.3
	align=right	33.3	align=right	0.1	align=right	0.1	align=right	88.0
	align=right	31.9	align=right	0.1	align=right	0.1	align=right	99.9
Other	align=right	177.1	align=right	0.4	align=right	0.4	align=right	83.9

Source: National composition of the population. 2001 Ukrainian Population Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine

National structure by regions

Note: listed are those nationalities which comprise more than 0.1% of regional population. Numbers are given in thousands.

• Autonomous Republic of Crimea - 2,024.0 (100%)
  • Russians - 1,180.4 (58.5%)
  • Ukrainians - 492.2 (24.4%)
  • Crimean Tatars - 243.4 (12.1%)
  • Belarusians - 29.2 (1.5%)
  • Tatars - 11.0 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 8.7 (0.4%)
  • Jews - 4.5 (0.2%)
  • Poles - 3.8 (0.2%)
  • Moldovans - 3.7 (0.2%)
  • Azeris - 3.7 (0.2%)
  • Uzbeks - 2.9 (0.1%)
  • Koreans - 2.9 (0.1%)
  • Greeks - 2.8 (0.1%)
  • Germans - 2.5 (0.1%)
  • Mordvins - 2.2 (0.1%)
  • Chuvashi - 2.1 (0.1%)
• Cherkasy Oblast - 1,398.3 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,301.2 (93.1%)
  • Russians - 75.6 (5.4%)
  • Belarusians - 3.9 (0.3%)
  • Armenians - 1.7 (0.1%)
  • Moldovans - 1.6 (0.1%)
  • Jews - 1.5 (0.1%)
• Chernihiv Oblast - 1,236.1 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,155.4 (93.5%)
  • Russians - 62.2 (5.0%)
  • Belarusians - 7.1 (0.6%)
• Chernivtsi Oblast - 919.0 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 689.1 (75.0%)
  • Romanians - 114.6 (12.5%)
  • Moldovans - 67.2 (7.3%)
  • Russians - 37.9 (4.1%)
  • Poles - 3.4 (0.4%)
  • Belarusians - 1.5 (0.2%)
  • Jews - 1.4 (0.2%)
• Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - 3,561.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,825.8 (79.3%)
  • Russians - 627.5 (17.6%)
  • Belarusians - 29.5 (0.8%)
  • Jews - 13.7 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 10.6 (0.3%)
  • Azeris - 5.6 (0.2%)
• Donetsk Oblast - 4,825.6 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,744.1 (56.9%)
  • Russians - 1,844.4 (38.2%)
  • Greeks - 77.5 (1.6%)
  • Belarusians - 44.5 (0.9%)
  • Tatars - 19.2 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 15.7 (0.3%)
  • Jews - 8.8 (0.2%)
  • Azeris - 8.1 (0.2%)
  • Georgians - 7.2 (0.2%)
  • Moldovans - 7.2 (0.2%)
• Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast - 1,406.1 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,371.2 (97.5%)
  • Russians - 24.9 (1.8%)
  • Poles - 1.9 (0.2%)
  • Belarusians - 1.5 (0.2%)
• Kharkiv Oblast - 2,895.8 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,048.7 (70.7%)
  • Russians - 742.0 (25.6%)
  • Belarusians - 14.7 (0.5%)
  • Jews - 11.5 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 11.1 (0.4%)
• Kherson Oblast - 1,172.7 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 961.6 (82.0%)
  • Russians - 165.2 (14.1%)
  • Belarusians - 8.1 (0.7%)
  • Tatars - 5.3 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 4.5 (0.4%)
  • Moldovans - 4.1 (0.4%)
• Khmelnytskyi Oblast - 1,426.6 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,339.3 (93.9%)
  • Russians - 50.7 (3.6%)
  • Poles - 23.0 (1.6%)
• Kirovohrad Oblast - 1,125.7 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,014.6 (90.1%)
  • Russians - 83.9 (7.5%)
  • Moldovans - 8.2 (0.7%)
  • Belarusians - 5.5 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 2.9 (0.3%)
• Kyiv Oblast - 1,821.1 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,684.8 (92.5%)
  • Russians - 109.3 (6.0%)
  • Belarusians - 8.6 (0.5%)
• Luhansk Oblast - 2,540.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,472.4 (58.0%)
  • Russians - 991.8 (39.0%)
  • Belarusians - 20.5 (0.8%)
  • Tatars - 8.5 (0.3%)
  • Armenians - 6.5 (0.3%)
• Lviv Oblast - 2,606.0 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,471.0 (94.8%)
  • Russians - 92.6 (3.6%)
  • Poles - 18.9 (0.7%)
• Mykolaiv Oblast - 1,262.9 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,034.5 (81.9%)
  • Russians - 177.5 (14.1%)
  • Moldovans - 13.1 (1.0%)
  • Belarusians - 8.3 (0.7%)
  • Bulgarians - 5.6 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 4.2 (0.3%)
  • Jews - 3.2 (0.3%)
• Odesa Oblast - 2,455.7 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,542.3 (62.8%)
  • Russians - 508.5 (20.7%)
  • Bulgarians - 150.6 (6.1%)
  • Moldovans - 123.7 (5.0%)
  • Gagauz - 27.6 (1.1%)
  • Jews - 13.3 (0.5%)
  • Belarusians - 12.7 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 7.4 (0.3%)
• Poltava Oblast - 1,621.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,481.1 (91.4%)
  • Russians - 117.1 (7.2%)
  • Belarusians - 6.3 (0.4%)
• Rivne Oblast - 1,171.4 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,123.4 (95.9%)
  • Russians - 30.1 (2.6%)
  • Belarusians - 11.8 (1.0%)
• Sumy Oblast - 1,296.8 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,152.0 (88.8%)
  • Russians - 121.7 (9.4%)
  • Belarusians - 4.3 (0.3%)
• Ternopil Oblast - 1,138.5 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,113.5 (97.8%)
  • Russians - 14.2 (1.2%)
  • Poles - 3.8 (0.3%)
• Vinnytsia Oblast - 1,763.9 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,674.1 (94.9%)
  • Russians - 67.5 (3.8%)
• Volyn Oblast - 1,057.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,025.0 (96.9%)
  • Russians - 25.1 (2.4%)
  • Belarusians - 3.2 (0.3%)
• Zakarpattia Oblast - 1,254.6 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,010.1 (80.5%)
  • Hungarians - 151.5 (12.1%)
  • Romanians - 32.1 (2.6%)
  • Russians - 31.0 (2.5%)
  • Gypsies - 14.0 (1.1%)
  • Slovaks - 5.6 (0.5%)
  • Germans - 3.5 (0.3%)
• Zaporizhzhia Oblast - 1,926.8 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,364.1 (70.8%)
  • Russians - 476.8 (24.7%)
  • Bulgarians - 27.7 (1.4%)
  • Belarusians - 12.6 (0.7%)
  • Armenians - 6.4 (0.3%)
  • Tatars - 5.1 (0.3%)
• Zhytomyr Oblast - 1,389.3 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,255.0 (90.3%)
  • Russians - 68.9 (5.0%)
  • Poles - 49.0 (3.5%)
  • Belarusians - 4.9 (0.4%)
• Kyiv - 2,567.0 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,110.8 (82.2%)
  • Russians - 337.3 (13.1%)
  • Jews - 17.9 (0.7%)
  • Belarusians - 16.5 (0.6%)
  • Poles - 6.9 (0.3%)
• Sevastopol - 377.2 (100%)
  • Russians - 270.0 (71.6%)
  • Ukrainians - 84.4 (22.4%)
  • Belarusians - 5.8 (1.6%)
  • Tatars - 2.5 (0.7%)
  • Crimean Tatars - 1.8 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 1.3 (0.3%)
  • Jews - 1.0 (0.3%)

Source: National composition of the population. 2001 Ukrainian Population Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine

External links

• 2001 Census. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
• 2001 Census results. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
• How the Ukrainians will be counted, Zerkalo Nedeli (the Mirror Weekly), November 24–30, 2001 (in Ukrainian)
• Law of Ukraine "About the All-Ukrainian Census" (Ukrainian)

Notes and References

1. In 2021, there will most likely be no all-Ukrainian census - Minister, hromadske.ua (21 April 2020)
2. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/313066.html Ukrainian population census will be held in 2020 – Cabinet decree
3. Ministry will involve Apple in the post-war census, Ukrinform (2 April 2023)