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About number and composition population of DONETS'K REGION
by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001
The language structure of Donets'k region , according to the data of the All-Ukrainian census of the population, is characterized by the following data:
| |
The part of those whose mother tongue was( %) |
| the language of their nationality |
Ukrainian |
Russian |
other language |
|
Ukrainians
|
41.2
|
х
|
58.7
|
0.1
|
|
Russians
|
98.6
|
1.3
|
х
|
0.1
|
|
Greeks
|
5.4
|
3.2
|
91.3
|
0.1
|
|
Belarussians
|
10.4
|
3.9
|
85.5
|
0.2
|
|
Tatars
|
24.3
|
1.6
|
73.9
|
0.2
|
|
Armenians
|
38.6
|
1.4
|
59.5
|
0.5
|
|
Jews
|
1.5
|
2.4
|
95.9
|
0.2
|
|
Azerbaijanians
|
42.2
|
1.8
|
53.7
|
2.3
|
|
Georgians
|
26.0
|
2.5
|
71.1
|
0.4
|
|
Moldavians
|
15.2
|
7.1
|
77.1
|
0.6
|
|
Bulgarians
|
7.1
|
5.8
|
86.8
|
0.3
|
|
Germans
|
4.8
|
6.5
|
88.6
|
0.1
|
|
Poles
|
4.1
|
19.3
|
75.7
|
0.9
|
|
Gypsies
|
44.9
|
13.0
|
40.3
|
1.8
|
|
other nationality
|
23.9
|
3.9
|
69.9
|
2.3
|
The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 24.1% of the population of Donets'k region, this is by 6.5 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 74.9% of the population. Comparatively with the data of previous census this index has increase by 7.2 percentage points.
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