Demographics & population — Ukraine
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for Ukraine: 43,922,939
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Population overview
- Population
43,922,939
- Population Growth Rate
-0.63%
- Urban Population
- Population in Major Urban Areas
- KYIV (capital) 2.829 million
- Kharkiv 1.451 million
- Dnipropetrovsk 994,000
- Odesa 1.01 million
- Donetsk 959,000
- Zaporizhzhya 771,000
Age & family
- Age Structure
- Median Age
- Birth Rate - births/1,000 population
10
- Death Rate - deaths/1,000 population
15.75
- Total Fertility Rate - children born/woman
1.29
- Contraceptive Prevalance Rate - female 12-49
66.7%
- Contraceptive Prevalence Rate - female 12-49
66.7%
- Mean Age for Mother's First Birth (age 25-49)
23.1
- Mother's mean age at first birth
23.1
- Sex Ratio at Birth - male/female
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
-0.07
Ethnicity & language
- 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%
- Language Note
Ukrainian is the official language. Minorities including Hungarian, Polish and Romanian may speak their own languages. Ethnic minorities now have the legal right to use their own language in public and judicial matters.
- Nationality Noun
Ukrainian(s)
Education
- Literacy - total population
99.4%
- Literacy - male
99.8%
- Literacy - female
99.6%
- Literacy Definition
age 15 and over can read and write
- Education Expenditures - percent of GDP
6.2%
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- Infant Mortality Rate
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
32
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
3.52
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
8.7
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
7.3%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
21.3%
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
- Underweight - percent of children under five years
0.9%