Decline in population of Ukraine continues in the first half of 2017, statistics by Ukrstat show. The estimated population of Ukraine decreased by 51 thousand people in 5 months. The alarming gap between mortality and fertility rates is still present and keeps widening, with the number of deaths exceeding the number of births by over 70%.

How many people live in Ukraine: Resident population vs. total population

• The total population of Ukraine as of June 2017 is estimated at 42 million 482 thousand people.
• The largest populated area is the city of Kiev together with its region (2.928 + 1.731 = 4.659 million people in total). However, in statistics by Ukrstat these two areas are listed separately.
• Second is Donetsk region (over 4 million).
• The majority of highly populated areas are located in the eastern part of the country, including Dniper (Dnipropetrovsk), Kharkiv and Luhansk (each has more than 2 million residents).
• Lviv in the west and Odessa (Odesa) on the Black Sea are two other highly populated regions.
• Chernivtsi and Kirovohrad are the least populated regions with the number of residents below 1 million people.
• Resident and present population in low-density regions differ slightly, the gap between figures being no greater than 5 thousand. However, regions with a larger number of citizens show a huge discrepancy: The difference between de jure and de facto estimates can go up to 42 thousand people (for instance, in the City of Kyiv).

Present population by region (people)

1. Donetsk – 4,218,356
2. Dnipropetrovsk – 3,242,461
3. City of Kyiv – 2,928,177
4. Kharkiv – 2,699,846
5. Lviv – 2,530,584
6. Odesa – 2,382,940
7. Luhansk – 2,176,871
8. Kyiv (region)– 1,741,563
9. Zaporizhzhya – 1,731,279
10. Vinnytsya – 1,583,658
11. Poltava – 1,420,425
12. Ivano-Frankivsk – 1,378,407
13. Khmelnytskiy – 1,280,140
14. Zakarpattya – 1,257,831
15. Zhytomyr – 1,235,968
16. Cherkasy – 1,226,240
17. Rivne – 1,161,727
18. Mykolayiv – 1,144,984
19. Sumy – 1,099,010
20. Ternopil – 1,055,966
21. Kherson – 1,051,538
22. Volyn – 1,039,045
23. Chernihiv – 1,026,658
24. Kirovohrad – 961,515
25. Chernivtsi – 906,783

Resident population by region

1. Donetsk – 4,205,471
2. Dnipropetrovsk – 3,239,152
3. City of Kyiv – 2,886,870
4. Kharkiv – 2,684,210
5. Lviv – 2,512,214
6. Odesa – 2,371,880
7. Luhansk – 2,172,274
8. Kyiv – 1,735,784
9. Zaporizhzhya – 1,730,490
10. Vinnytsya – 1,576,573
11. Poltava – 1,412,587
12. Ivano-Frankivsk – 1,375,681
13. Khmelnytskiy – 1,276,977
14. Zakarpattya – 1,254,998
15. Zhytomyr – 1,236,737
16. Cherkasy – 1,222,611
17. Rivne – 1,160,667
18. Mykolayiv – 1,144,269
19. Sumy – 1,096,818
20. Ternopil – 1,052,715
21. Kherson – 1,050,106
22. Volyn – 1,036,317
23. Chernihiv – 1,018,116
24. Kirovohrad – 955,100
25. Chernivtsi – 903718

Data: Ukrstat

Ukraine’s population decline: 172 deaths to 100 births

• The death rate in Ukraine has been extremely high in the first half of 2017: Over 250 thousand deaths on average across the country. Compared to about 145 thousand newborns, the mortality rate exceeds the number of births by 72%.
• The highest number of births recorded in the City of Kyiv, with over 14 thousand people born since January 2017.

Data: Ukrstat

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