Ukrainian Census (2001)

The first Ukrainian Census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989 and was so far the only census held in independent Ukraine.

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

There were 454 cities nine of them with population over 500,000. The census recorded over 130 nationalities.

The next Ukrainian census is planned to be held in 2020.

Actual population by regions

Region	Population, 2001 (thousands)	Population, 1989 (thousands)	Change (percent)
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	2033.7	2063.6	99
Cherkasy region	1402.9	1531.5	92
Chernihiv region	1245.3	1415.9	88
Chernivtsi region	922.8	938.0	98
Dnipropetrovs'k region	3567.6	3881.2	92
Donets'k region	4841.1	5332.4	91
Ivano-Frankivs'k region	1409.8	1423.5	99
Kharkiv region	2914.2	3195.0	91
Kherson region	1175.1	1240.0	95
Khmel'nyts'kyi region	1430.8	1527.1	94
Kirovohrad region	1133.1	1239.4	91
Kiev region	1827.9	1940.0	94
Luhans'k region	2546.2	2862.7	89
L'viv region	2626.5	2747.7	94
Mykolaiv region	1264.7	1330.6	95
Odessa region	2469.0	2642.6	93
Poltava region	1630.1	1753.0	93
Rivne region	1173.3	1169.7	100
Sumy region	1299.7	1432.7	91
Ternopil’ region	1142.4	1168.9	98
Vinnytsia region	1772.4	1932.6	92
Volyn' region	1060.7	1061.2	100
Zakarpattia region	1258.3	1252.3	100
Zaporizhzhia region	1929.2	2081.8	93
Zhytomyr region	1389.5	1545.4	90
Kiev (city)	2611.3	2602.8	100
Sevastopol' (city)	379.5	395.0	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)
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	1274.3	759.4	63	37
Cherkasy region	753.6	649.3	54	46
Chernihiv region	727.2	518.1	58	42
Chernivtsi region	373.5	549.3	40	60
Dnipropetrovs'k region	2960.3	607.3	83	17
Donets'k region	4363.6	477.5	90	10
Ivano-Frankivs'k region	593.0	816.8	42	58
Kharkiv region	2288.7	625.5	79	21
Kherson region	706.2	468.9	60	40
Khmel'nyts'kyi region	729.6	701.2	51	49
Kirovohrad region	682.0	451.1	60	40
Kiev region	1053.5	774.4	58	42
Luhans'k region	2190.8	355.4	86	14
Lviv region	1558.7	1067.8	59	41
Mykolaiv region	838.8	425.9	66	34
Odessa region	1624.6	844.4	66	34
Poltava region	956.8	673.3	59	41
Rivne region	549.7	623.6	47	53
Sumy region	842.9	456.8	65	35
Ternopil' region	485.6	656.8	43	57
Vinnytsia region	818.9	953.5	46	54
Volyn' region	533.2	527.5	50	50
Zakarpattia region	466.0	792.3	37	63
Zaporizhzhia region	1458.2	471.0	76	24
Zhytomyr region	775.4	614.1	56	44
Kiev (city)	2611.3	-	100	-
Sevastopol' (city)	358.1	21.4	94	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)
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	937.6	1096.1	46	54
Cherkasy region	638.8	764.2	46	54
Chernihiv region	565.5	679.7	45	55
Chernivtsi region	432.1	490.7	47	53
Dnipropetrovs'k region	1643.3	1924.3	46	54
Donets'k region	2219.9	2621.2	46	54
Ivano-Frankivs'k region	665.2	744.5	47	53
Kharkiv region	1339.5	1574.7	46	54
Kherson region	548.5	626.6	47	53
Khmel'nyts'kyi region	659.9	770.8	46	54
Kirovohrad region	520.8	612.2	46	54
Kiev region	845.9	982.0	46	54
Luhans'k region	1169.9	1376.3	46	54
L'viv region	1245.1	1381.4	47	53
Mykolaiv region	588.2	676.6	47	53
Odessa region	1155.4	1313.6	47	53
Poltava region	747.4	882.7	46	54
Rivne region	555.6	617.7	47	53
Sumy region	593.8	705.9	46	54
Ternopil' region	530.2	612.3	46	54
Vinnytsia region	809.6	962.8	46	54
Volyn' region	500.1	560.6	47	53
Zakarpattia region	605.5	652.8	48	52
Zaporizhzhia region	886.6	1042.6	46	54
Zhytomyr region	644.8	744.7	46	54
Kiev (city)	1218.7	1392.7	47	53
Sevastopol' (city)	173.5	206.0	46	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)
Ukrainians	37541.7	77.8	72.7	100.3
Russians	8334.1	17.3	22.1	73.4
Belarusians	275.8	0.6	0.9	62.7
Moldavians	258.6	0.5	0.6	79.7
Crimean Tatars	248.2	0.5	0	530.0
Bulgarians	204.6	0.4	0.5	87.5
Hungarians	156.6	0.3	0.4	96.0
Romanians	151.0	0.3	0.3	112.0
Poles	144.1	0.3	0.4	65.8
Jews	103.6	0.2	0.9	21.3
Armenians	99.9	0.2	0.1	180.0
Greeks	91.5	0.2	0.2	92.9
Tatars	73.3	0.2	0.2	84.4
Gipsies	47.6	0.1	0.1	99.3
Azerbaijanians	45.2	0.1	0	122.2
Georgians	34.2	0.1	0	145.3
Germans	33.3	0.1	0.1	88.0
Gagausians	31.9	0.1	0.1	99.9
Other	177.1	0.4	0.4	83.9

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 0.25% of regional population. Numbers are given in thousands.

• Autonomous Republic of Crimea - 2,024.0 (100%)
  • Russians - 1,180.4 (58.3%)
  • Ukrainians - 492.2 (24.3%)
  • Crimean Tatars - 243.4 (12.0%)
  • Belarusians - 29.2 (1.4%)
  • Tatars - 11.0 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 8.7 (0.4%)
• Cherkasy region - 1,398.3 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,301.2 (93.1%)
  • Russians - 75.6 (5.4%)
  • Belarusians - 3.9 (0.3%)
• Chernihiv region - 1,236.1 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,155.4 (93.5%)
  • Russians - 62.2 (5.0%)
  • Belarusians - 7.1 (0.6%)
• Chernivtsi region - 919.0 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 689.1 (75.0%)
  • Romanians - 114.6 (12.5%)
  • Moldavians - 67.2 (7.3%)
  • Russians - 37.9 (4.1%)
  • Poles - 3.3 (0.4%)
• Dnipropetrovs'k region - 3,561.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,825.8 (79.3%)
  • Russians - 627.5 (17.6%)
  • Belarusians - 29.5 (0.8%)
  • Jews - 13.7 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 10.6 (0.3%)
• Donets'k region - 4,825.6 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,744.1 (56.9%)
  • Russians - 1,844.4 (38.2%)
  • Greeks - 77.5 (1.6%)
  • Belarusians - 44.5 (0.9%)
  • Tatars - 19.1 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 15.7 (0.3%)
• Ivano-Frankivs'k region - 1,406.1 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,371.2 (97.5%)
  • Russians - 24.9 (1.8%)
• Kharkiv region - 2,895.8 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,048.7 (70.7%)
  • Russians - 742.0 (25.6%)
  • Belarusians - 14.7 (0.5%)
  • Jews - 11.5 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 11.1 (0.4%)
• Kherson region - 1,172.7 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 961.6 (82.0%)
  • Russians - 165.2 (14.1%)
  • Belarusians - 8.1 (0.7%)
  • Tatars - 5.3 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 4.5 (0.4%)
  • Moldavians - 4.1 (0.4%)
• Khmel'nyts'kyi region - 1,426.6 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,339.3 (93.9%)
  • Russians - 50.7 (3.6%)
  • Poles - 23.0 (1.6%)
• Kirovohrad region - 1,125.7 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,014.6 (90.1%)
  • Russians - 83.9 (7.5%)
  • Moldavians - 8.2 (0.7%)
  • Belarusians - 5.5 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 2.9 (0.3%)
• Kiev region - 1,821.1 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,684.8 (92.5%)
  • Russians - 109.3 (6.0%)
  • Belarusians - 8.6 (0.5%)
• Luhans'k region - 2,540.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,472.4 (58.0%)
  • Russians - 991.8 (39.0%)
  • Belarusians - 20.5 (0.8%)
  • Tatars - 8.5 (0.3%)
  • Armenians - 6.5 (0.3%)
• L'viv region - 2,606.0 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,471.0 (94.8%)
  • Russians - 92.6 (3.6%)
  • Poles - 18.9 (0.7%)
• Mykolaiv region - 1,262.9 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,034.5 (81.9%)
  • Russians - 177.5 (14.1%)
  • Moldavians - 13.1 (1.0%)
  • Belarusians - 8.3 (0.7%)
  • Bulgarians - 5.6 (0.4%)
  • Armenians - 4.2 (0.3%)
  • Jews - 3.2 (0.3%)
• Odesa region - 2,455.7 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,542.3 (62.8%)
  • Russians - 508.5 (20.7%)
  • Bulgarians - 150.6 (6.1%)
  • Moldavians - 123.7 (5.0%)
  • Gagausians - 27.6 (1.1%)
  • Jews - 13.3 (0.5%)
  • Belarusians - 12.7 (0.5%)
  • Armenians - 7.4 (0.3%)
• Poltava region - 1,621.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,481.1 (91.4%)
  • Russians - 117.1 (7.2%)
  • Belarusians - 6.3 (0.4%)
• Rivne region - 1,171.4 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,123.4 (95.9%)
  • Russians - 30.1 (2.6%)
  • Belarusians - 11.8 (1.0%)
• Sumy region - 1,296.8 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,152.0 (88.8%)
  • Russians - 121.7 (9.4%)
  • Belarusians - 4.3 (0.3%)
• Ternopil' region - 1,138.5 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,113.5 (97.8%)
  • Russians - 14.2 (1.2%)
  • Poles - 3.8 (0.3%)
• Vinnytsia region - 1,763.9 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,674.1 (94.9%)
  • Russians - 67.5 (3.8%)
• Volyn' region - 1,057.2 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,025.0 (96.9%)
  • Russians - 25.1 (2.4%)
  • Belarusians - 3.2 (0.3%)
• Zakarpattia region - 1,254.6 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,010.1 (80.5%)
  • Hungarians - 151.5 (12.1%)
  • Romanians - 32.1 (2.6%)
  • Russians - 31.0 (2.5%)
  • Gypsies - 14.0 (1.1%)
  • Slovaks - 5.6 (0.5%)
  • Germans - 3.5 (0.3%)
• Zaporizhzhia region - 1,926.8 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,364.1 (70.8%)
  • Russians - 476.8 (24.7%)
  • Bulgarians - 27.7 (1.4%)
  • Belarusians - 12.6 (0.7%)
  • Armenians - 6.4 (0.3%)
  • Tatars - 5.1 (0.3%)
• Zhytomyr region - 1,389.3 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 1,255.0 (90.3%)
  • Russians - 68.9 (5.0%)
  • Poles - 49.0 (3.5%)
  • Belarusians - 4.9 (0.4%)
• Kiev - 2,567.0 (100%)
  • Ukrainians - 2,110.8 (82.2%)
  • Russians - 337.3 (13.1%)
  • Jews - 17.9 (0.7%)
  • Belarusians - 16.5 (0.6%)
  • Poles - 6.9 (0.3%)
• 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

See also

• Ukrainian Census (2016)

External links

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