2002: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Ukraine's Census: a look at the numbers

The following table presents the distribution of population among Ukraine's administrative-territorial units, as reflected in the 2001 nationwide census. The population of Ukraine as of December 5, 2001, stood at 48,416,000 people.

Autonomous Republic of Crimea Cherkasy Oblast Chernihiv Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Kharkiv Oblast Kherson Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast Kyiv Oblast Luhansk Oblast Lviv Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast Odesa Oblast Poltava Oblast Rivne Oblast Sumy Oblast Ternopil Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast Volyn Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast Zaporizhia Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast City of Kyiv* City of Sevastopol*

2,031,000 1,402,000 1,236,000 923,000 3,560,000 4,843,000 1,409,000 2,910,000 1,174,000 1,431,000 1,129,000 1,828,000 2,546,000 2,626,000 1,264,000 2,468,000 1,630,000 1,173,000 1,300,000 1,142,000 1,772,000 1,061,000 1,258,000 1,926,000 1,389,000 2,607,000 378,000

*Including population centers under the jurisdiction of the city council.

The total number of cities in Ukraine on the day of the 2001 nationwide census was 454. Of these, 37 had populations ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 people, nine cities counted more than half a million residents, and five of the latter had more than 1 million. The population of the city of Kyiv was 2.6 million. Cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants are presented in the following table, listed in alphabetical order.

Alchevsk Antratsyt Artemivsk Berdiansk Berdychiv Bila Tserkva Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Boryspil Brianka Brovary Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Chervonohrad Dniprodzerzhynsk Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Drohobych Druzhkivka Dymytrov Fastiv Feodosia Horlivka Illichivsk Ivano-Frankivsk Izium Izmail Kalush Kamianets-Podilskyi Kerch Kharkiv Khartsyzk Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kirovohrad Kovel Kolomyia Komsomolsk Konotop Korosten Kostiantynivka Kramatorsk Krasnyi Luch Krasnoarmiisk Krasnodon Kremenchuk Kryvyi Rih Kyiv* Lozova Lubny Luhansk Lutsk Lviv Lysychansk Makiyivka Marhanets Mariupol Melitopol Mukachiv Mykolaiv Nikopol Nizhyn Nova Kakhovka Novovolynsk Novohrad-Volynskyi Novomoskovsk Odesa Oleksandria Okhtyrka Pavlohrad Pervomaisk (Mykolaiv Oblast) Poltava Pryluky Rivne Romny Rovenky Rubizhne Sevastopol* Sieverodonetsk Shakhtarsk Shostka Sloviansk Smila Snizhne Stakhanov Stryi Sumy Sverdlovsk Symferopol Ternopil Torez Uman Uzhhorod Vinnytsia Yalta Yenakiyeve Yevpatoria Zaporizhia Zhovti Vody Zhytomyr

119,000 64,000 83,000 121,000 88,000 200,000 52,000 54,000 55,000 87,000 295,000 301,000 240,000 71,000 256,000 1,064,000 1,016,000 79,000 65,000 54,000 52,000 74,000 292,000 54,000 218,000 56,000 84,000 68,000 100,000 157,000 1,470,000 64,000 328,000 254,000 253,000 66,000 61,000 52,000 93,000 67,000 95,000 181,000 95,000 69,000 51,000 234,000 667,000 2,602,000 63,000 53,000 463,000 209,000 732,000 115,000 390,000 50,000 492,000 160,000 82,000 514,000 135,000 76,000 52,000 54,000 56,000 72,000 1,029,000 94,000 50,000 119,000 70,000 318,000 65,000 249,000 50,000 54,000 65,000 341,000 120,000 60,000 87,000 125,000 70,000 59,000 90,000 62,000 293,000 73,000 343,000 228,000 73,000 89,000 118,000 357,000 81,000 104,000 106,000 814,000 52,000 284,000

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 12, 2003, No. 2, Vol. LXXI

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