
Urban population: 69.8% of total population (2021) 0.26 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.)ĭensest settlement in the eastern (Donbas) and western regions noteable concentrations in and around major urban areas of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donets'k, Dnipropetrovs'k, and Odesa Note: Ukraine's population is overwhelmingly Christian the vast majority - up to two thirds - identify themselves as Orthodox, but many do not specify a particular branch the OCU and the UOC-MP each represent less than a quarter of the country's population, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church accounts for 8-10%, and the UAOC accounts for 1-2% Muslim and Jewish adherents each compose less than 1% of the total populationĠ-14 years: 16.16% (male 3,658,127/female 3,438,887)ġ5-24 years: 9.28% (male 2,087,185/female 1,987,758)Ģ5-54 years: 43.66% (male 9,456,905/female 9,718,758)ĥ5-64 years: 13.87% (male 2,630,329/female 3,463,851)Ħ5 years and over: 17.03% (male 2,523,600/female 4,957,539) (2020 est.) Orthodox (includes the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), and the Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)), Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish (2013 est.) The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information.

Ukrainian (official) 67.5%, Russian (regional language) 29.6%, other (includes small Crimean Tatar-, Moldovan/Romanian-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) 2.9% (2001 est.) note - in February 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that 2012 language legislation entitling a language spoken by at least 10% of an oblast's population to be given the status of "regional language" - allowing for its use in courts, schools, and other government institutions - was unconstitutional, thus making the law invalid Ukrainian remains the country's only official nationwide language
