Ukraine's population: 48,416,000

KYIV - According to preliminary data from the 2001 nationwide census in Ukraine, as published in Uriadovyi Kurier, the official newspaper of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the population of Ukraine as of December 5, 2001, numbered 48,416,000 people.

The size of Ukraine's urban population as of one year ago was 32,538,000, while the population of rural regions totaled 15,878,000. Thus, urban dwellers made up 67 percent and rural dwellers, 33 percent of the total population.

The population of Ukraine was composed of 25,941,000 women, or 54 percent of the total population, and 22,475,000 men or 46 percent.

The total number of cities in Ukraine on the day of the census was 454. Of these, 37 had populations ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 people, nine cities numbered more than half a million residents, and five of the latter had more than 1 million residents. The population of the city of Kyiv was recorded as 2.6 million.

Detailed data from the 2001 nationwide census for Ukraine as a whole and for each administrative-territorial unit - i.e., the distribution of population by sex, age, ethnic origin, language, education, family status, size of household, standard of living, and other indicators specified in the program for elaborating the census results - were to be released in December 2002.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 5, 2003, No. 1, Vol. LXXI

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