About number and composition population of IVANO-FRANKIVS'K REGION
by All-Ukrainian population census'2001 data.

   The peculiarity of the national structure of the population of region is its multinational composition. According to the All-Ukrainian population census data , the representatives of more than 90 nationalities and ethnic groups live on the territory Ivano-Frankivs'k region.

    The data about the most numerous nationalities of Ivano-Frankivs'k region are mentioned below:

	Total (thousand persons)	as % to the result		2001 as % to 1989
		2001	1989
Ukrainians	1371.2	97.5	95.0	102.1
Russians	24.9	1.8	4.0	43.7
Poles	1.9	0.1	0.2	54.7
Belarussians	1.5	0.1	0.2	45.1
Moldavans	0.6	0.0	0.1	71.4
Jews	0.4	0.0	0.1	18.1
Armenians	0.3	0.0	0.0	72.1
Germans	0.2	0.0	0.0	82.5
Tatars	0.2	0.0	0.0	45.0
Gypsies	0.2	0.0	0.0	186.5
Azerbaijanians	0.1	0.0	0.0	33.6
Bulgarians	0.1	0.0	0.0	66.0
Hungarians	0.1	0.0	0.0	78.5
Romanians	0.1	0.0	0.0	75.6
Georgians	0.1	0.0	0.0	155.4
other nationality	1.0	0.1	0.0	203.8

The part of Ukrainians in the national structure of population of region is the largest, it accounts for 1,371,200 people, or 97.5% of the population. During the years that have passed since the census of the population ‘1989, the number of Ukrainians has increased by 2.5% and their part among other citizens of Ukraine has increased by 5.1 percentage points.

Russians are the second numerous nation of region. Since 1989 their number has decreased by 56.3% and at the date of the census it accounted for 24.9 thousand people. The part of Russians in total population has decreased by 2.2 percentage points.