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About number and composition population of UKRAINE
by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001
The number of the urban population, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian census of the population, accounted for 32,574 thousand persons or 67.2%,and that of the rural population - 15,883 thousand people or 32.8%. Since 1989 urban population has decreased by 2.0 million people and rural by – 1.2 million people, but they still are in the same ratio. Urban and rural population by regions of Ukraine is characterized by the following data:
|
Actual population, thousand people |
As % of total population |
The same indices of 1989 |
urban |
rural |
urban |
rural |
urban |
rural |
Autonomous Republic of Crimea |
1274.3 |
759.4 |
63 |
37 |
65 |
35 |
Cherkasy region |
753.6 |
649.3 |
54 |
46 |
53 |
47 |
Chernihiv region |
727.2 |
518.1 |
58 |
42 |
53 |
47 |
Chernivtsi region |
373.5 |
549.3 |
40 |
60 |
42 |
58 |
Dnipropetrovs'k region |
2960.3 |
607.3 |
83 |
17 |
83 |
17 |
Donets'k region |
4363.6 |
477.5 |
90 |
10 |
90 |
10 |
Ivano-Frankivs'k region |
593.0 |
816.8 |
42 |
58 |
42 |
58 |
Kharkiv region |
2288.7 |
625.5 |
79 |
21 |
79 |
21 |
Kherson region |
706.2 |
468.9 |
60 |
40 |
61 |
39 |
Khmel'nyts'kyi region |
729.6 |
701.2 |
51 |
49 |
47 |
53 |
Kirovohrad region |
682.0 |
451.1 |
60 |
40 |
60 |
40 |
Kyiv region |
1053.5 |
774.4 |
58 |
42 |
54 |
46 |
Luhans'k region |
2190.8 |
355.4 |
86 |
14 |
86 |
14 |
L'viv region |
1558.7 |
1067.8 |
59 |
41 |
59 |
41 |
Mykolaiv region |
838.8 |
425.9 |
66 |
34 |
66 |
34 |
Odesa region |
1624.6 |
844.4 |
66 |
34 |
66 |
34 |
Poltava region |
956.8 |
673.3 |
59 |
41 |
57 |
43 |
Rivne region |
549.7 |
623.6 |
47 |
53 |
45 |
55 |
Sumy region |
842.9 |
456.8 |
65 |
35 |
62 |
38 |
Ternopil' region |
485.6 |
656.8 |
43 |
57 |
41 |
59 |
Vinnytsia region |
818.9 |
953.5 |
46 |
54 |
44 |
56 |
Volyn' region |
533.2 |
527.5 |
50 |
50 |
49 |
51 |
Zakarpattia region |
466.0 |
792.3 |
37 |
63 |
41 |
59 |
Zaporizhzhia region |
1458.2 |
471.0 |
76 |
24 |
76 |
24 |
Zhytomyr region |
775.4 |
614.1 |
56 |
44 |
53 |
47 |
The city of Kyiv |
2611.3 |
- |
100 |
- |
100 |
- |
The city of Sevastopol' х) |
358.1 |
21.4 |
94 |
6 |
95 |
5 |
х) Including settlements that are administratively subordinated to the town’s council
The part of urban population has increased in 11 regions of Ukraine, decreased – in 5 regions, stayed constant in the rest. Changes took place mainly in central and in several western and southern regions. Especially high level of this index was in Donents’k (90%), Luhans'k (86%) and Dnipropetrovs'k (83%) regions, low level (less than 50%) was typical of Vinnytsia, Rivne, Ternopil', Ivano-Frankivs'k, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions.
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