Censuses in Ukraine ( uk, Переписи населення України, Perepysy naselennya Ukrayiny) is a sporadic event that since 2001 has been conducted by the

State Statistics Committee of Ukraine State Statistics Committee of Ukraine ( uk, Державний Комітет Статистики України, ''Derzhavnyi Komitet Statystyky Ukrainy'') is the government agency responsible for collection and dissemination of statistics in Uk ...

under the jurisdiction of the Government of Ukraine.

History

The first steps

The first official census in the territory of Ukraine took place in 1818 when

Western Ukraine Western Ukraine or West Ukraine ( uk, Західна Україна, Zakhidna Ukraina or , ) is the territory of Ukraine linked to the former Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, which was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austria ...

was part of the

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. However a modern census did not take place until 1857. Since then the next censuses took place in the dual-power state of the

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in 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910. Those last five censuses also included the territory of the today

Zakarpattia Oblast The Zakarpattia Oblast ( uk, Закарпатська область, Zakarpatska oblast) is an administrative oblast located in western Ukraine, mostly coterminous with the historical region of Carpathian Ruthenia. Its administrative centre is ...

which was part of the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

. The further censuses discontinued as the country fell apart. The rest of Ukraine which was part of Russian Empire conducted its first census as part of the 1897 Russian Census. The next national census in Russia did not take place until after

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and the formation of the

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. A city-census of Kyiv took place in March 1919, after the Bolsheviks occupied the city. In 1920, a census was conducted only in those areas of Ukraine that were not involved in the

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Interwar censuses

The next census conducted in most of the territory of

(Eastern Galicia) was the

Polish census of 1921 The Polish census of 1921 or First General Census in Poland ( pl, Pierwszy Powszechny Spis Ludności) was the first census in the Second Polish Republic, performed on September 30, 1921 by the Main Bureau of Statistics (Główny Urząd Statystyczn ...

, while the 1921 Czechoslovakia Census took place on the territory of the

. In 1930 another census took place in both regions as part of their respective national censuses that were conducted in the same year. Also the area of today

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast ( uk, Черніве́цька о́бласть, Chernivetska oblast), also referred to as Chernivechchyna ( uk, Чернівеччина) is an oblast (province) in Western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the regio ...

saw its first national census in 1930 for the first time since the last one that was conducted in the

in 1910, while the area of

Budjak Budjak or Budzhak ( Bulgarian and Ukrainian: Буджак; ro, Bugeac; Gagauz and Turkish: ''Bucak''), historically part of Bessarabia until 1812, is a historical region in Ukraine and Moldova. Lying along the Black Sea between the Danube ...

of today

Odessa Oblast Odesa Oblast ( uk, Оде́ська о́бласть, translit=Odeska oblast), also referred to as Odeshchyna ( uk, Оде́щина) is an oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administ ...

along with the rest of Bessarabia had the Russian demographic statistic data back from 1897. Already during the

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one more census took place in 1941 in Hungary which previously sacked and occupied the territory of

Carpatho-Ukraine Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine ( uk, Карпа́тська Украї́на, Karpats’ka Ukrayina, ) was an autonomous region within the Second Czechoslovak Republic, created in December 1938 by renaming Subcarpathian Rus' whose full ...

(today Zakarpattia Oblast). As it was mentioned before, the first national Russian Census since 1897 took place only in 1926 as part of the First All-Union Census in the USSR. The next census in the Soviet Union took place in 1937, but it was recognized as unofficial and was never disclosed. The census was also recognized as a conspiracy against the Soviet regime. Just before the

in 1939, the Soviet Union conducted another census that was accepted as the official one.

Post-War censuses

After

, Ukraine was united in its current borders (including

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

) and within the Soviet Union. The first Soviet Census after the war took place in 1959, followed by three more in 1970, 1979 and 1989. The next planned census never took place as the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.

Post-Soviet

The first (and so far only) national census of Ukraine took place in 2001.Всеукраїнський перепис населення заплановано на кінець 2020-го ('An all-Ukrainian population census is planned for the end of 2020')

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukrai ...

(9 October 2019) It was originally planned that the next one would follow in 2010, but it was postponed until 2020.Ukrainian population census will be held in 2020 – Cabinet decree
Interfax-Ukraine (22 December 2015) In April 2020 Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers

Oleh Nemchinov Oleh Mykolayovych Nemchinov ( uk, Олег Миколайович Немчінов; born 1 May 1977) is a Ukrainian civil servant and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers. Biography Nemchi ...

said there would be no census in 2020 and probably not in 2021.In 2021, there will most likely be no all-Ukrainian census - Minister
hromadske.ua (21 April 2020) Nemchinov said in December 2020 that the next census was planned for 2023.It became known when the government plans to conduct a census

The Ukrainian Week ''The Ukrainian Week'' ( uk, Український Тиждень, translit=Ukrainskyi Tyzhden) is an illustrated weekly magazine covering politics, economics and the arts and aimed at the socially engaged Ukrainian-language reader. It provides ...

(9 December 2020)

References

External links

Historical information on the website of the Ukrainian Census

Official website of the Ukrainian Census

2001 Census of Ukraine

List of all censuses of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Russian Federation at "Demoscope Weekly"
Demography Institute of the National Research University "The Highest School of Economics" {{USSRCensus Demographics of Ukraine

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