Editing Demographics of Ukraine (section)

===Regional differences in population change===
[[File:Ukraine natural population growth rates.png|thumb|upright 1.2|Natural population growth rates by oblast, 2009]]
Between the Soviet census of 1989 and the Ukrainian census of 2001, Ukraine's population declined from 51,706,600 to 48,457,020,<ref name="all-ukrainian_census_2001"/> a loss of 2,926,700 people, or 5.7% of the 1989 population. However, this trend was quite uneven and subject to regional variation. Two oblasts in western Ukraine, [[Rivne Oblast|Rivne]] and [[Zakarpattia Oblast|Zakarpattia]], saw slight population increases of 0.3% and 0.5%, respectively. A third western Ukrainian oblast, [[Volyn Oblast|Volyn]], lost less than 0.1% of its population between 1989 and 2001.<ref name="all-ukrainian_census_2001"/> Collectively, between 1989 and 2001, the seven westernmost Ukrainian oblasts lost 167,500 people, or 1.7% of their 1989 population. The total population of these oblasts in 2001 was 9,593,800.<ref name="all-ukrainian_census_2001"/>

Between 1989 and 2001, the population of [[Kyiv]] City increased by 0.3%<ref name="all-ukrainian_census_2001"/> due to positive net migration.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} Outside Kyiv, the central, southern and eastern oblasts experienced a severe population declines. Between 1989 and 2001, the [[Donetsk Oblast]] lost 491,300 people, or 9.2% of its 1989 population, while the neighbouring [[Luhansk Oblast]] lost 11% of its population.<ref name="all-ukrainian_census_2001"/> [[Chernihiv Oblast|Chernihiv Obast]], in central Ukraine (northeast of Kyiv), lost 170,600 people, or 12% of its 1989 population, the highest percentage loss in of any Ukrainian oblast. In southern Ukraine, [[Odesa Oblast]] lost 173,600 people, or 6.6% of its 1989 population.

By 2001, [[Autonomous Republic of Crimea|Crimea's]] population declined by 29,900, representing only a 1.4% loss of its 1989 population.<ref name="all-ukrainian_census_2001" /> This however was due to the influx of approximately 200,000 [[Crimean Tatars]]&nbsp;– equivalent to approximately 10% of Crimea's 1989 population&nbsp;– who arrived in Crimea after 1989 and whose population in that region increased by a factor of 6.4 (from 38,000 to 243,400 between 1989 and 2001).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Crimea/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204020421/http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Crimea/|url-status=dead|title=About number and composition population of Autonomous Republic of Crimea by data All-Ukrainian population census|archive-date=4 December 2007|access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref> Collectively, the net population loss in Ukraine outside the westernmost oblasts was 2,759,200, or 6.6% of the 1989 population. The total population of these regions in 2001 was 39,186,100.<ref name="all-ukrainian_census_2001"/>

Overall in 1989–2001, the pattern of population change was one of slight growth in Kyiv, slight declines in western Ukraine, large declines in eastern, central and southern Ukraine, and a relatively small decline in Crimea due to a large influx of Crimean Tatars.
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