Issues of identity, language and ethnicity have been mentioned as part
of the background of recent events in Ukraine, although scholars and
commentators have diverging opinions on the extent to which they really
reflect divisions in Ukrainian society. The 2001 Ukraine population census is available online with the following break out tables and information:
- Total number of actual population
According to the refined data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census
‘2001, the total number of the actual population of Ukraine at the date
of 5 December 2001 accounted for 48.457 thousand people.
- Urban and rural population
The number of the urban population, according to the All-Ukrainian
Population Census ‘2001 data, accounted for 32.574 thousand persons, or
67.2%, and that of the rural population 15.883 thousand people, or
32.8%.
- Gender structure of the population
According to the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 data, the
number of men totaled 22.441 thousand people, or 46.3%, that of women -
26.016 thousand people, or 53.7%.
- Number of the cities
During
the years that have passed since the census of the population ‘1989,
the number of towns in Ukraine has increased by 20 and on the date of
the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 there were 454 units.
- Permanent population
The total number of the permanent population of Ukraine on the date of 5
December 2001 accounted for 48.241 thousand people, including men –
22.316 thousand people, or 46.3%, women - 25.925 thousand people, or
53.7%; the urban population – 32.291 thousand people, or 66.9%, the
rural population – 15.950 thousand people, or 33.1%.
- Age structure of population
The age structure of the population, stated by the All-Ukrainian
Population Census ‘2001, is characterized by the following data: the
part of children in population has decreased, while the part of the
persons at the age older than able-to-work has increased, that
considerably complicates present demographic situation in the country
and says about ageing of the population.
- National composition of the population
The peculiarity of the national structure of the population of Ukraine
is its multinational composition. According to the All-Ukrainian
Population Census ‘2001 data, the representatives of more than 130
nationalities and ethnic groups live on the territory of the country.
- Linguistic composition of population
The language structure of Ukraine, according to the All-Ukrainian Census
data, is various.
The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 67.5% of the
population of Ukraine, this is by 2.8 percentage points more than in
1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals
29.6% of the population. Comparatively with the data of previous census
this index has decreased by 3.2 percentage points. The part of other
languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have
passed since previous census has increased by 0.4 percentage points and
accounts for 2.9%.
- Educational level of the population
The results of the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 testified to
the tendency to the rise of the educational standard of the population
and the increase in the number of people with higher and complete
secondary education.
- Marital status
According to the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 data the number
of married men and women accounted for 23.7 million people.
