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About number and composition population of SUMY REGION
by All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 data
The language structure of region, according to the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 data, is characterized by the following data:
| |
The part of those whose mother tongue was( %) |
| the language of their nationality |
Ukrainian |
Russian |
other language |
|
Ukrainians
|
92.4
|
х |
7.6 |
0.0 |
|
Russians
|
89.6 |
10.4 |
х |
0.0 |
|
Belarussians
|
33.6 |
25.9 |
40.4 |
0.1 |
|
Gypsies
|
41.5 |
47.6 |
10.3 |
0.6 |
|
Armenians
|
60.3 |
10.2 |
28.7 |
0.8 |
|
Moldavians
|
46.7 |
27.6 |
25.2 |
0.5 |
|
Jews
|
1.7 |
29.4 |
68.9 |
- |
|
other nationalities
|
31.5 |
22.4 |
44.8 |
1.3 |
The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 84% of the population of region, this is by 5.9 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 15.6% of the population, comparatively with previous census data this index has decreased by 5.8 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census has decreased by 0.1 percentage points and accounts for 0.4%.
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