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Ukraine Population 2024

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe, after Russia & the seventh-most populous country in Europe.

According to Ukraine Census, the population of Ukraine* as of 1st Nov. 2021 is 41,270,899 (41.27 million) and As of January 1, 2023, 37.6 million people lived in the territory within the 1991 borders, 32.6 million within the 2022 borders, and 31.1 million in the territories currently controlled by the Ukrainian government.

Source: UKR Census and other estimates

*excluding the Autonomous Republic of Crimea & Sevastopol, which were annexed by Russia in 2014. 

Ukraine Demography

Ukraine2022 Population
Total Population41,200,000 (41.2 million)
Europe Rank7th
Land Area 579,300 sq. km (223,700 sq. mi)
Area Rank2nd
Pop. Density75 per sq. km (196/sq.mi).
Fertility Rate*1.44 
Median Age41.2  years
Life Expectancy72.50 years
Urban Population69.40%
Capital CityKyiv

Source: UKR Census

*excluding the Autonomous Republic of Crimea & Sevastopol, which were annexed by Russia in 2014. 

Religion in Ukraine

Christianity is the main religion in Ukraine and 87% of the population follows Christianity. The majority of the population are adherents of  Eastern Orthodox Churches and 72.7% of the population declared themselves to be Orthodox. Roughly 58.3% of the Ukrainian Orthodox population were members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and 25.4% were members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).

Other Denominations are Greek Rite Catholics (8.8%), Protestants (2.3%), Latin Rite Catholics (0.9%), and other Christians at 2.3%. Non-Christian faiths account for 1%, and the remaining 11% are classified as unaffiliated, which can mean agnostic, atheist, or “nothing in particular.”

Other Religions include Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and smaller faiths.

ReligionPercent
Christianity87%
  Orthodoxy – 72.7%
  Catholicism – 9.7%
  Protestantism – 2.3%
  Other Christians – 2.3%
Other Religion0.8%
  Judaism -0.4%
  Others-0.4%
Unaffiliated-11%
No answer-1%

Source: estimates

 

Ukraine Historical Population

Ukraine in past is part of the Russian empire/Ukrainian SSR & its territory varied greatly over time. The 2001 census was the first official census of independent Ukraine. By Various sources, the population of Ukraine in 1900 is around 24 million & it doubled to 50 million in 1980. The population was at a peak in the 1990s &  has been declining since then.

Declining of Population since the 1990s is because of a high emigration rate, coupled with high death rates and low birth rates. The population has been shrinking by an average of over 300,000 annually since 1993. In 2007, the country’s rate of population decline was the fourth highest in the world.

On 1 July 2021, the total population of Ukraine was estimated to be 41,383,182 excluding the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, which were annexed by Russia in 2014.

YearPopulationPercentage Change
190024,969,000
191030,297,00017.59%
192427,400,000
193031,436,00012.84%
193933,425,0005.95%
195036,905,0009.43%
196042,469,00013.10%
197047,127,0009.88%
198050,044,0005.83%
199051,838,5003.46%
200049,429,800-4.87%
201045,962,947-7.54%
202041,902,416-9.69%

Source: UKR Census

Ukraine Population by Oblast/ Province

#Oblast/ProvincePopulation 2021
1Donetsk 4,068,641
2Dnipropetrovsk 3,107,090
3City of Kyiv2,954,052
4Kharkiv2,607,853
5Lviv2,483,033
6Odesa2,355,535
7Luhansk2,106,670
8Kyiv1,795,448
9Zaporizhzhya 1,645,327
10Vinnytsya 1,514,036
11Poltava1,357,184
12Ivano-Frankivsk1,354,334
13Zakarpattya 1,246,426
14Khmelnytskiy1,232,566
15Zhytomyr 1,182,767
16Cherkasy1,164,772
17Rivne1,143,877
18Mykolayiv1,096,059
19Sumy1,039,732
20Ternopil1,023,898
21Volyn 1,023,296
22Kherson1,005,276
23Chernihiv963,128
24Kirovohrad907,928
25Chernivtsi891,971

Source: UKR Census

Top Cities in Ukraine by Population

#CityRegionPopulation
1KyivKyiv (city)29,67,360
2KharkivKharkiv14,43,207
3OdessaOdessa10,17,699
4DniproDnipropetrovsk9,90,724
5DonetskDonetsk9,08,456
6ZaporizhzhiaZaporizhzhia7,31,922
7LvivLviv7,24,314
8Kryvyi RihDnipropetrovsk6,19,278
9MykolaivMykolaiv4,80,080
10MariupolDonetsk4,36,569
11LuhanskLuhansk4,01,297
12VinnytsiaVinnytsia3,70,707
13MakiivkaDonetsk3,41,362
14SevastopolSevastopol (city)3,40,297
15SimferopolCrimea3,36,330
16KhersonKherson2,86,958
17ChernihivChernihiv2,86,899
18PoltavaPoltava2,86,649
19CherkasyCherkasy2,74,762
20KhmelnytskyiKhmelnytskyi2,73,713

Source: Census 2020

Ukrainian Ancestry in America

People of Ukrainian ancestry form an important group in several countries in North and South America. As per estimates, there are around 3.5 million Ukrainian in North and South America.

It also forms an important minority Group in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina.

read more about Ukrainian ancestry in America

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