About number and composition population of KYIV REGION
by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001

   The educational level of the population of Kyiv region is show in table:

	Number of persons with education:
	higher		secondary
	total	including complete higher	total	including complete secondary
Permanent population aged 10 and older     thousand person
1989 year	386.9	126.2	1154.4	492.0
2001 year	477.8	186.8	1120.8	591.8
2001 as % to 1989	123.5	148.0	97.1	120.3
Per 1000 permanent persons aged 10 and older:
Total population
1989 year	234	76	698	298
2001 year	289	113	679	358
2001 as % to 1989	123.5	148.7	97.3	120.1
Urban population
1989 year	323	111	640	329
2001 year	358	148	617	369
2001 as % to 1989	110.8	133.3	96.4	112.2
Rural population
1989 year	136	38	761	263
2001 year	187	67	760	344
2001 as % to 1989	137.5	176.3	99.9	130.8

   The number of people with higher and complete secondary education accounted for 1069,7 thousand people , that exceeds by 21.7% the corresponding characteristic of the All-Ukrainian census of the population ‘1989.
   The rise of the educational standard of the population is typical of both urban and rural population. The number of persons with complete higher education per 1000 persons of the population in specified age since 1989 has increased by 33% in towns and by 76.3% in the villages.The same tendency is typical of persons with complete secondary education. Their number has increased by 12.2% in towns and by 30.8% in the village, respectively.