The recent electronic population census did not cover the group of approximately 2.5 million Ukrainians who live in the territory of the Russian-annexed Crimea and residents of the parts of the Donbass region still controlled by the pro-Russian separatists.Īpart from the age structure, another element of vital importance for economic analyses is the territorial distribution of the country’s population. In total there are 11.501 million old age pensioners in Ukraine, which accounts for as much as 30.9 per cent of the country’s overall population. Ukraine’s overall population includes 5.756 million children under the age of 15 (15.4 per cent of the population), 3.584 million people aged 15-24 (9.6 per cent), 16.458 million people in the working age group of 25-54 years (44.1 per cent), 5.243 million people in the age group of 55-64 years (14.1 per cent), as well as 6.248 million people over 60 (16.8 per cent). The number of women in Ukraine is 20.01 million, while the number of men is much lower and reaches only 17.28 million. Meanwhile, it turned out that the Ukrainian population is actually far lower, reaching only 37.282 million. Just a few days before the announcement of the new results, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine (Ukrstat) reported that the country’s population was 41.9 million people. Ukraine’s population will keep decreasingĪs part of the implemented cost-cutting measures, the Ukrainian government decided that, instead of a traditional census, it would carry out a substitute - an electronic census. As a result, the Ukrainian authorities were making key economic decisions on the basis of population estimates which - as it now turns out - had very little to do with reality. Those figures were then repeatedly adjusted in order to account for the numbers of deaths and births, as well as the Russian annexation of Crimea, and the migration. Back then Ukraine’s population reached 48.5 million people. The last traditional census, conducted in accordance with international standards, took place in 2001. At the end of January 2020, the Ukrainian authorities published the results of an electronic population census carried out in 2019.
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