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About number and composition population of VOLYN REGION
by All-Ukrainian Population Census data
The language structure of Volyn’ region, according to the All-Ukrainian population census 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 |
99.7
|
|
0.3
|
|
| Russians |
85.6
|
14.4
|
|
|
| Belarussians |
36.6
|
35.0
|
28.4
|
|
| Armenians |
59.3
|
17.1
|
21.7
|
1.9
|
| Poles |
19.5
|
68.8
|
9.4
|
2.3
|
| Moldavians |
50.2
|
33.3
|
15.8
|
0.7
|
| Jews |
4.2
|
37.6
|
58.2
|
|
| Germans |
8.5
|
50.6
|
40.9
|
|
| Georgians |
31.5
|
57.7
|
9.7
|
1.1
|
| Tatars |
29.7
|
18.1
|
52.2
|
|
| Azerbaijanians |
49.7
|
29.3
|
20.4
|
0.6
|
| Czeches |
21.3
|
72.4
|
6.3
|
|
The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 97.3% of the population of region, this is by 2.8 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 2.5% of the population, comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 2.6 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, accounts for 0.2%.
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