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===Historical populations=== {|class="wikitable floatright" ! colspan="7" style="background:#E0E0E0;"|Population structure by religion 1869–1931 |- ! Community ! 1869<ref name="Britannica1890" /> ! 1890<ref name="Brockhaus1894" /> ! 1900<ref name="Meyers1908" /> ! 1910<ref name="Hann">C. M. Hann, Paul Robert Magocsi ed. ''Galicia: a Multicultured land''. [[University of Toronto Press]]. 2005. p. 155.</ref> ! 1921<ref name="Hann" /> ! 1931<ref name="Chorny" /> |- |Roman Catholic||53.1%||52.6%||51.7%||51%||51%||50.4% |- |Jewish||30.6%||28.2%||27.7%||28%||35%||31.9% |- |Greek Catholic||14.2%||17.1%||18.3%||19%||12%||15.9% |} {|class="wikitable floatright" ! colspan="9" style="background:#E0E0E0;"|Population makeup by ethnicity 1900–2001 |- ! Ethnicity ! 1900<ref>[http://etno.uaweb.org/nsklad/1900-halychyna.html Населення Східної Галичини] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031192201/http://etno.uaweb.org/nsklad/1900-halychyna.html|date=31 October 2010 }} за переписом 1900 року</ref> ! 1931<ref name=Chorny>[http://etno.uaweb.org/nsklad/1931-lvivske.html Національний склад Львівського воєводства] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031192233/http://etno.uaweb.org/nsklad/1931-lvivske.html|date=31 October 2010 }} за переписом 1931 року</ref> ! 1944<ref name="Risch">William Jay Risch. ''Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv.'' [[Harvard University Press]]. 2011. pp. 41–42.</ref> ! 1950 ! 1959<ref name=Szporluk>Roman Szporluk. ''Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union''. Hoover Institution Press, 2000, p. 304. {{ISBN|0-8179-9542-0}}</ref> ! 1979<ref name=Szporluk /> ! 1989<ref name=Szporluk /> ! 2001<ref name="2001census" /> |- style="text-align:right;" |style="text-align:left;"|[[Ukrainians]]||19.9%||15.9%||26.4%||49.9%||60.0%||74.0%||79.1%||88.1% |- style="text-align:right;" |style="text-align:left;"|[[Russians]]||0.0%||0.2%||5.5%||31.2%||27.0%||19.3%||16.1%||8.9% |- style="text-align:right;" |style="text-align:left;"|[[Jews]]||26.5%||31.9%||||6.4%||6.0%||2.7%||1.6%||0.3% |- style="text-align:right;" |style="text-align:left;"|[[Polish people|Poles]]||49.4%||50.4%||63%||10.3%||4.0%||1.8%||1.2%||0.9% |} [[File:Lviv ethnicity.png|right|500px]] {|class="wikitable floatright" style="text-align:right; margin:0 0 0 1em;" ! colspan="4"|Ethnicity in Lviv according to censuses of 1989 and 2001 respectively |- |style="text-align:left;"|[[Ukrainians]] |622,800||79.1%||88.1% |- |style="text-align:left;"|[[Russians]] |126,418||16.1%||8.9% |- |style="text-align:left;"|[[Jews]] |12,837||1.6%||0.3% |- |style="text-align:left;"|[[Polish people|Poles]] |9,697||1.2%||0.9% |- |style="text-align:left;"|[[Belarusians]] |5,800||0.7%||0.4% |- |style="text-align:left;"|[[Armenians]] |1,000||0.1%||0.1% |- |style="text-align:left;"|Total |778,557|||| |- |colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|<small>Numbers do not include regions nor the surrounding towns.</small><ref name="per">Official census of 2001.</ref>{{full citation needed|date=February 2017}} |} *Year 1405: approx. 4,500 inhabitants in the Old Town, and additionally approx. 600 in the two suburbs.<ref name="Petersen">Heidemarie Petersen: ''Judengemeinde und Stadtgemeinde in Polen: Lemberg 1356–1581''. Harrasso Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 50 (in German, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HoEtGJ9GKGYC&pg=PA50 limited online preview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102033537/https://books.google.com/books?id=HoEtGJ9GKGYC&pg=PA50 |date=2 January 2016 }})</ref> *Year 1544: approx. 3,000 inhabitants in the Old Town (number had decreased by about 30% due to the fire of 1527), and additionally approx. 2,700 in the suburbs.<ref name="Petersen" /> *Year 1840: approx. 67,000 inhabitants, including 20,000 Jews.<ref>''Universal-Lexikon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit'' (edited by H. A. Pierer). 2nd edition, vol. 7, Altenburg 1843, p. 344.</ref> *Year 1850: nearly 80,000 inhabitants (together with the four suburbs), including more than 25,000 Jews.<ref>''Konversations-Lexikon'' (edited by Brockhaus). 10th edition, vol. 9, Leipzig 1853, p. 512.</ref> *Year 1869: 87,109 inhabitants, among them 46,252 Roman Catholics, 26,694 Jews, 12,406 members of the Greek Uniate Churches.<ref name="Britannica1890">''The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature''. Vol. 14. The Henry G. Allen Company. 1890. p. 435.</ref> *Year 1890: 127,943 inhabitants (64,102 male, 63,481 female), among them 67,280 [[Roman-Catholic Church|Catholics]], 36,130 [[Judaic]], 21,876 members of the [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Greek Uniate Churches]], 2,061 Protestants, 596 Orthodox and others.<ref name="Brockhaus1894">''Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon''. 14th edition, vol. 11, Leipzig 1894, p. 76</ref> *Year 1900: 159,877 inhabitants, including the military (10,326 men). Of these inhabitants, 82,597 were members of the [[Roman Catholic Church]], 29,327 members of the [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Greek Uniate Churches]], and 44,258 were Jews. As their language of communication, 120,634 used [[Polish language|Polish]], 20,409 [[German language|German]] or [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]], and 15,159 [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]].<ref name="Meyers1908">''Meyers Konversations-Lexikon''. 6th edition, vol. 12, Leipzig and Vienna 1908, pp. 397–398.</ref> *Year 1921: 219,400 inhabitants, including 112,000 [[Polish people|Poles]], 76,000 Jews and 28,000 [[Ukrainians]].<ref name="brockhaus">''Der Große Brockhaus''. 15th edition, vol. 11, Leipig 1932, pp. 296–297.</ref> *Year 1939: 340.000 inhabitants.<ref>''Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon''. 9th edition, vol. 14, Mannheim/Vienna/Zürich 1975, p. 802.</ref> *Year 1940: 500,000.<ref name="Risch" /> *July 1944: 149,000.<ref name="Risch" /> *Year 1955: 380,000.<ref name="Risch" /> *Year 2001: 725,000 inhabitants, of whom 88% were Ukrainians, 9% [[Russians]] and 1% Poles.<ref name="2001census">{{Cite web |url=http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Lviv/ |title=Всеукраїнський перепис населення 2001 |website=2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua |access-date=2 May 2011 |archive-date=23 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723105733/http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Lviv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A further 200,000 people commuted daily from suburbs. *Year 2007: 735,000 inhabitants. By gender: 51.5% women, and 48.5% men.<ref name="per" />{{full citation needed|date=February 2017}} By place of birth:<ref name="per" />{{full citation needed|date=February 2017}} 56% born in Lviv, 19% born in [[Lviv Oblast]], 11% born in East Ukraine, 7% born in the former republics of the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] (Russia 4%), 4% born in Poland, and 3% born in [[West Ukrainian People's Republic|Western Ukraine]], but not in the [[Lviv Oblast]]. *Religious adherence: (2001)<ref name="per" />{{full citation needed|date=February 2017}} **52% [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church]] **31% [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate|Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate]] **{{0|0}}5% [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] **{{0|0}}3% [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)]] **{{0|0}}3% Other faiths
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