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About number and composition population of KHARKIV REGION
by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001
The language structure of Ukraine, 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
|
74.1 |
х |
25.8 |
0.1 |
|
Russians
|
95.6 |
4.3 |
х |
0.1 |
|
Belarussians
|
22.7 |
17.0 |
60.0 |
0.3 |
|
Jews
|
1.3 |
5.0 |
93.5 |
0.2 |
|
Armenians
|
45.7 |
4.8 |
49.1 |
0.4 |
|
Azerbaijanians
|
57.2 |
4.8 |
37.4 |
0.6 |
|
Georgians
|
40.7 |
6.0 |
52.9 |
0.4 |
|
Tatars
|
19.7 |
5.3 |
74.3 |
0.7 |
|
Moldavians
|
32.1 |
20.6 |
45.2 |
2.1 |
|
Vietnamians
|
98.3 |
- |
1.6 |
0.1 |
|
Gypsies
|
62.4 |
16.3 |
20.1 |
1.2 |
|
other nationality
|
12.9 |
4.8 |
21.0 |
61.3 |
The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 53.8% of the population of Ukraine, this is by 3.3 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 44.3% of the population. Comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 3.8 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census has increased by 0.5 percentage points and accounts for 1.9%.
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