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About the number and structure of the population of POLTAVA REGION
according to the results of the All-Ukrainian population census '2001
The language structure of Poltava 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 was( %) |
| the language of their nationality |
Ukrainian |
Russian |
other language |
|
Ukrainians
|
97.1 |
х |
2.9 |
0.0 |
|
Russians
|
87.8 |
12.2 |
х |
0.0 |
|
Belarussians
|
31.5 |
29.6 |
38.9 |
0.0 |
|
Moldavians
|
54.0 |
31.0 |
14.1 |
0.9 |
|
Armenians
|
61.2 |
12.3 |
26.1 |
0.4 |
|
Jews
|
2.7 |
29.0 |
68.3 |
0.0 |
|
Azerbaijanians
|
66.1 |
13.0 |
19.6 |
1.3 |
|
Bulgarians
|
26.9 |
29.4 |
42.3 |
1.4 |
|
Greeks
|
10.2 |
32.5 |
55.3 |
2.0 |
|
Kazakhs
|
24.7 |
26.9 |
47.9 |
0.5 |
|
Georgians
|
51.9 |
16.3 |
31.5 |
0.3 |
|
Koreans
|
13.4 |
13.4 |
73.2 |
0.0 |
|
Latvians
|
26.6 |
24.2 |
47.7 |
1.5 |
|
Lithuanians
|
37.9 |
23.1 |
39.0 |
0.0 |
|
Mordvinian
|
17.3 |
11.1 |
71.2 |
0.4 |
|
Germans
|
8.9 |
33.4 |
57.7 |
0.0 |
|
Poles
|
6.5 |
65.6 |
25.8 |
2.1 |
|
Tatars
|
20.8 |
17.2 |
61.1 |
0.9 |
|
Hungarians
|
57.6 |
36.4 |
6.0 |
0.0 |
|
Uzbeks
|
34.4 |
22.0 |
43.6 |
0.0 |
|
Gypsies
|
60.9 |
30.8 |
5.1 |
3.2 |
|
Other nationalities
|
42.4 |
18.0 |
36.7 |
2.9 |
The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 90% of the population of region, this is by 4.1 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 9.5% of the population. Comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 3.7 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census has decreased by 0.4 percentage points and accounts for 0.5%.
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