All-Ukrainian Census (2001)

According to the results of the 2001 All-Ukrainian Census ^[1] , the population of Ukraine amounted to 48.457 million people .

The urban population is 32.574 million , or 67.2% , the rural population is 15.883 million , or 32.8% . More than half of the rural population lives in relatively large villages (from 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants).

The official language is Ukrainian . He is considered native by 67.5% of the population of Ukraine , which is 2.8% more than according to the 1989 census . 29.6% of the population called Russian their native language.

The male population in 2001 amounted to 22.441 million (46.3%), the female - 26.016 million (53.7%). Married 23.7 million men and women .

The proportion of persons under working age was 18.1%, able - bodied - 58.0%, older than able-bodied - 23.9%

The population with higher and complete secondary education amounted to 28.9 million people .

The largest peoples of Ukraine: Ukrainians (77.8%), Russians (17.3%), Belarusians (0.6%), Moldavians (0.5%), Crimean Tatars (0.5%) and others.

1. Your family relationship with the person recorded first in the household (household member recorded first; husband, wife; daughter, son; mother, father; sister, brother; daughter-in-law, son-in-law; mother-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law; grandmother, grandfather; granddaughter , grandson; another degree of kinship; not a relative)
2. Your gender (male, female)
3. Temporarily (absent, resides)
4. Your date of birth (day, month, year, how many years old)
5. Your place of birth (region, Crimea , Kiev , Sevastopol , another state)
6. Your ethnic background (nationality, nationality or ethnic group)
7. Your language characteristics (native language; if your native language is not Ukrainian , indicate whether you speak Ukrainian fluently ; another language that you are fluent in)
8. Your citizenship ( Ukraine , stateless, another state)
9. Your marital status (for persons aged 15 years and older: never been married; I am in a registered marriage; I am in an unregistered marriage; widower, widow; divorced, divorced; divorced, divorced, spouse's number in the household)
10. Your education (for people aged 6 years and over: full higher, higher; basic higher; primary higher, secondary special; incomplete higher, for people who graduated in 1996 and earlier; full general secondary, general secondary; basic general secondary, incomplete secondary; initial general, primary; do not have an initial general; illiterate, illiterate; educational institution that graduated (a), how many classes (courses), in which year)
11. You graduated from a vocational education institution (for people aged 15 years and over: yes, no)
12. Type of educational institution where you study (for persons aged 6 years and over: higher, vocational, general education, other educational institution (courses), do not study; for persons under 7 years of age who do not attend school, indicate whether they attend preschool: yes, no)
13. Your sources of livelihood (work at an enterprise, organization, institution, peasant (farm) farm; work with individual citizens; work at your own enterprise; work on an individual basis; work at your own farm (farm); work at a family enterprise without payment labor; work in personal subsidiary plots; property income; pension; scholarship; assistance (other than unemployment assistance); unemployment assistance; another type of state support; other dependents; other and Tocnik; number of the main source of income)
14. Full name of the institution, organization, enterprise, own business, where you are engaged in the main work, type of activity
15. your occupation at the main job (name of the profession, position or work performed by you)
16. Your work location (in the territory of residence, in another territory: region, Crimea, Kiev, Sevastopol)
17. Your position in the occupation (who do you work for: work for hire; member of a collective enterprise, cooperative; employer; self-employed, self-employed; family member working for free)
18. In this locality you live permanently from birth (yes, no; if “no”, indicate the year you live permanently; the time of moving coincides with the period from December 5, 2000 to December 5, 2001; place of previous residence: region, Crimea, cities Kiev, Sevastopol; type of settlement from which you arrived: urban, rural; whether you are: refugee, deported)
19. You gave birth to children (for women aged 15 years and older: yes, no; if yes, indicate: how many children gave birth, how many are alive)

The population according to population censuses in the USSR and Ukraine. In 1926 and 1939, the Ukrainian SSR did not include Crimea , Volyn Region , Rivne Region , Transcarpathian Region , Ivano-Frankivsk Region , Lviv Region , Ternopol Region , Chernivtsi Region , Akkerman and Izmail County of Bessarabia (the future Izmail Region is the southern part of modern Odessa Region )

According to the 2001 census, 67.5% of the total population of Ukraine named the native language Ukrainian (in 1979 - 88.5%); the majority of the population of the republic (32.6 million people) speaks Ukrainian . The number of Ukrainians (residents of Ukraine , who identify themselves with the Ukrainian ethnic group) who named the native language the Ukrainian language exceeds 85.2% (in 1979 - 93.5%). The Ukrainian language is spoken by tens of thousands of Russians , most Poles , a significant part of Czechs , Slovaks , Moldavians , Romanians and other peoples.

The language composition in 2001.

The permanent population of Ukraine at the time of the census consisted of 47.95 million citizens of Ukraine, 168 thousand citizens of other states (including 151 thousand citizens of the CIS countries), 83 thousand stateless persons and 40 thousand people whose citizenship was not indicated in the census materials at all. The share of citizens of other states was maximum in the city of Sevastopol (3.4%), Crimea (0.8%), in Odessa (0.7%) and Lugansk regions (0.3%). Moreover, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and in the Odessa region, the largest share of persons without citizenship was recorded (0.5% each) ^[2] .

After 2001, in the territories affected by the census, the census was repeated in the Crimea and Sevastopol in 2014, and it is also planned to conduct censuses in October 2019 in the LPR , DPR .

• All-Ukrainian Population Census (2020)
• Day of Workers of Statistics of Ukraine - is celebrated on December 5 , the day the 2001 census began.
• Census in the Crimean Federal District (2014)

• Site of the All-Ukrainian Census