The total number of the actual population of the region, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001, accounted for 1060.7 thousand people.

The urban population, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census, accounted for 533.2 thousand people, or 50.3%, and that of the rural population – 527.5 thousand people, or 49.7%.

According to the data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001, the number of men accounted for 500.1 thousand people, or 47.1%, that of women – 560.6 thousand people, or 52.9%.

During the years that have passed since the census of the population ‘1989, the number of towns in the region has increased by 2 units, including 11 towns and 22 urban-type settlements.

The number of the permanent population of the region on the date of 5 December 2001 accounted for 1057.2 thousand people, including men – 497.6 thousand people, or 47.1%, that of women – 559.6 thousand people, or 52.9%.

The age structure of the population, stated by the All-Ukrainian Population Census, 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 data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census, 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 - 1.025,0 thousand persons, or 96.9% of the total population.

The language structure of the region, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001, is characterized by the following data: the part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 97.3% of the population of the region, this is by 2.8 percentage points more than in 1989. The part of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 2.5% of the population, comparatively with the data of the previous census this index has decreased by 2.6 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue accounts for 0.2%.

The results of the All-Ukrainian Population Census 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 577.9 thousand people, what exceeded by 28.6% the corresponding characteristic of the Ukrainian population census ‘1989.

According to the data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘ 2001 the number of married men and women accounts for 513.2 thousand people.