Administrative-territorial division of Ukraine on 5 December 2001(Rivne region)

In the Rivne region were formed: • census departments 151 • instructor districts 984 • registration districts 3990    No including census departments, instructor and account areas in hospitals, sanatoriums hotels etc. Territory (thousand sq.km) 20,1 Population (thousand person) 1173,3 Density of population (persons per sq.km) 58

The total number of the actual population of the region, according to the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001 data, accounted for 1,173.3 thousand people.

The urban population, according to the All-Ukrainian Population Censusdata, accounted for 549.7 thousand people, or 47%, and that of the rural population – 623.6 thousand people, or 53%.

Since the census of the population ‘1989 men and women have stayed almost in the same ratio. If in 1989 there were 1111 women per 1000 men, then in 2001 – 1112.

Since previous population census there have taken place the following changes in the administrative and territorial structure of the region: there have been formed the Demydiv region, the number of towns has increased – Berezne settlement has received the status of town, Ostroh town has received the regional status. The number of village councils has increased by 35 and the number of villages – by 5.

The permanent population of the region as of 5 December 200, according to refined data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001, accounted for 1,171.4 thousand people, including men – 554.4 thousand people, or 47%, that of women – 617.0 thousand people, or 53%.

The age structure of the population, stated by the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001, is characterized by the decrease in the part of children in total population simultaneously with the increase in the part of the persons at the older than able-to-work age, that considerably complicates present demographic situation and leads to the growing ageing of the population.

The peculiarity of the national structure of the population of the region is its multinational composition. According to the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001 data the representatives of more than 70 nationalities and ethnic groups lived on the territory of the region. The part of Ukrainians in the national structure of the population of the region was the largest, their number totaled 1,123.4 thousand people, or 95.9% of the total population.

The language structure of the population is characterized by the following data: the part of those whose mother tongue was Ukrainian totaled 97.0% of the population of the region that was by 3.0 percentage points more than in 1989. The part of those whose mother tongue was Russian totaled 2.7% of the population, Belarussian– 0.1%

The All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001 results testified to the tendency to the rise of the educational standard of the population and the increase in the number of people with higher and complete secondary education. The number of people with higher and complete secondary education amounted to 952.3 thousand people, what exceeded by 29.0% the corresponding characteristic of the population census ‘1989.

According to the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001 data the number of married men and women accouned for 561.6 thousand people.