Censuses in Ukraine () is a sporadic event that since 2001 has been conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine under the jurisdiction of the Government of Ukraine.
History
The first steps
The first official census in the territory of Ukraine took place in 1818 when Western Ukraine was part of the Austrian Empire. However a modern census did not take place until 1857. Since then the next censuses took place in the dual-power state of the Austria-Hungary in 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910. Those last five censuses also included the territory of the today Zakarpattia Oblast which was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The further censuses discontinued as the country fell apart. The rest of Ukraine which was part of Russian Empire conducted its first census as part of the 1897 Russian Census. The next national census in Russia did not take place until after World War I and the formation of the Soviet Union. A city-census of Kyiv took place in March 1919, after the Bolsheviks occupied the city. In 1920, a census was conducted only in those areas of Ukraine that were not involved in the Russian Civil War.
Interwar censuses
The next census conducted in most of the territory of Western Ukraine (Eastern Galicia) was the Polish census of 1921, while the 1921 Czechoslovakia Census took place on the territory of the Zakarpattia Oblast. In 1930 another census took place in both regions as part of their respective national censuses that were conducted in the same year. Also the area of today Chernivtsi Oblast saw its first national census in 1930 for the first time since the last one that was conducted in the Austria-Hungary in 1910, while the area of Budjak of today Odessa Oblast along with the rest of Bessarabia had the Russian demographic statistic data back from 1897. Already during the World War II one more census took place in 1941 in Hungary which previously sacked and occupied the territory of Carpatho-Ukraine (today Zakarpattia Oblast). As it was mentioned before, the first national Russian Census since 1897 took place only in 1926 as part of the First All-Union Census in the USSR. The next census in the Soviet Union took place in 1937, but it was recognized as unofficial and was never disclosed. The census was also recognized as a conspiracy against the Soviet regime. Just before the World War II in 1939, the Soviet Union conducted another census that was accepted as the official one.
Post-War censuses After World War II, Ukraine was united in its current borders (including Crimea) and within the Soviet Union. The first Soviet census after the war took place in 1959, followed by three more in 1970, 1979 and 1989. The next planned census never took place as the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
Post-Soviet
The first (and so far only) national census of Ukraine took place in 2001. Всеукраїнський перепис населення заплановано на кінець 2020-го ('An all-Ukrainian population census is planned for the end of 2020'), Ukrayinska Pravda (9 October 2019) It was originally planned that the next one would follow in 2011, but it has been repeatedly postponed.Ukrainian population census will be held in 2020 – Cabinet decree, Interfax-Ukraine (22 December 2015) Ministry will involve Apple in the post-war census, Ukrinform (2 April 2023)
Summary Year Territory(km2) Totalpopulation Densityper km2 Change Urbanpopulation Share Males Share Females Share Largest city Secondlargest city Ethnicminorities Notes 518 713 23 430 407 45.17 0.0% 3 085 341 13.2% 11 780 525 50.3% 11 649 882 49.7% Odessa Kiev 72.6% 451 584 29 018 187 64.25 23.8% 5 373 553 18.5% 14 094 592 48.6% 14 923 595 51.4% Kiev Odessa 77.0% 28 387 609 62.93 2.2% 9 561 767 33.7% 13 117 514 46.2% 15 270 095 53.8% Kiev} Kharkov — 30 946 218 68.53 10.5% 11 190 370 36.2% 14 753 566 47.7% 16 192 652 52.3% Kiev Kharkov — 603 700 41 869 046 69.35 35.3% 19 419 783 46.4% 18 575 382 44.4% 23 293 664 55.6% Kiev Kharkov — 47 126 517 78.06 12.5% 25 688 560 54.5% 21 305 320 45.2% 25 821 197 54.8% Kiev Kharkov — 49 754 642 82.42 5.6% 30 511 530 61.3% 22 743 513 45.7% 27 011 129 54.3% Kiev Kharkov — 51 706 742 85.65 3.9% 34 587 662 66.9% 23 907 764 46.2% 27 798 978 53.8% Kiev Kharkov 64.3% 48 457 100 80.27 6.3% 32 574 500 67.2% 22 441 400 46.3% 26 015 700 53.7% Kyiv Kharkiv 67.5% 43 415 201 71.91 10.4% 29 867 569 68.8% 20 052 573 46.2% 23 362 627 53.8% Kyiv Kharkiv — — Western Ukraine under Poland, 1921–1931
Year Territory(km2) Totalpopulation Densityper km2 Change Urbanpopulation Share Males Share Females Share Largest city Secondlargest city Ethnicminorities Notes 91 920 6 923 632 75.32 0.0% 1 235 937 17.8% 3 318 670 47.9% 3 604 962 52.1% Lwów Stanisławów 56.3% — 7 981 443 86.83 15.3% — — 3 861 055 48.4% 4 120 388 51.6% Lwów Stanisławów 40.4% —
References
External links Historical information on the website of the Ukrainian Census Official website of the Ukrainian Census 2001 Census of Ukraine List of all censuses of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Russian Federation at "Demoscope Weekly". Demography Institute of the National Research University "The Highest School of Economics"