Demographics of Ukraine
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The most recent Ukrainian Census was carried out in 2001.
CIA World Factbook data, 2005
Population
47,425,336 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure
- 0-14 years: 15.6% (male 3,783,725/female 3,619,754)
- 15-64 years: 68.8% (male 15,619,989/female 16,992,628)
- 65 years and over: 15.6% (male 2,497,851/female 4,911,389) (2005 est.)
Median age
- total: 38.22 years
- male: 34.91 years
- female: 41.21 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate
-0.63% (2005 est.)
Birth rate
10.49 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate
16.42 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate
-0.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio
- at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
- under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
- 15-64 years: 0.92 male(s)/female
- 65 years and over: 0.51 male(s)/female
- total population: 0.86 male(s)/female (2005 est.)
Infant mortality rate
- total: 20.34 deaths/1,000 live births
- male: 21.55 deaths/1,000 live births
- female: 19.07 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
- total population: 66.85 years
- male: 61.6 years
- female: 72.38 years (2005 est.)
Total fertility rate
1.4 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
1.4% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
360,000 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths
20,000 (2003 est.)
Nationality
- noun: Ukrainian(s)
- adjective: Ukrainian
Ethnic groups
Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census).
Religions
Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy 19%, Orthodox (no particular jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchy) 9%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 6%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 1.7%, Protestant, Jewish, none 38% (2004 est.)
Languages
Ukrainian 67%, Russian 24%, Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian-, Romanian-, Polish-, Hungarian-speaking minorities
Literacy
- definition: age 15 and over can read and write
- total population: 99.7%
- male: 99.8%
- female: 99.6% (2003 est.)
People - note:
the sex trafficking of Ukrainian women is a serious problem that has only recently been addressed
Source: CIA World Factbook, [1]
Migration
Ukraine is the major source of migrants in many of the European Union Member States. During the 1990s and 2000s, Ukraine's sputtering economy and political instability contributed to rising emigration, especially to nearby Poland and Hungary, but also to other States such as Portugal, Turkey, Israel, Russia and Canada. Many Ukrainian women, who had the highest unemployment rates, were enticed into prostitution in Western Europe and Turkey. [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]
Statistics
In the context of low salaries and unemployment within Ukraine, labor migration became a mass phenomenon at the end of the 1990s. Although estimates vary, approximately two to three million Ukrainian citizens are currently working abroad, most of them illegally, in construction, service, housekeeping, and agriculture industries.
Ukrainian embassies report that 300,000 Ukrainian citizens are working in Poland, 200,000 in Italy, approximately 200,000 in the Czech Republic, 150,000 in Portugal, 100,000 in Spain, 35,000 in Turkey, and 20,000 in the US. The largest number of Ukrainian workers abroad, about one million, are in the Russian Federation. [7], [8]bg:Население на Украйна ko:우크라이나의 주민 ru:Население Украины fi:Ukrainan väestöjakauma uk:Демографія України