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About number and composition population of SUMY 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 130 nationalities and ethnic groups live on the territory of the
| |
Total
(thousand persons) |
as % to the result |
2001
as % to 1989 |
| 2001 |
1989 |
|
Ukrainians
|
1152.0
|
88.8 |
85.5 |
94.4 |
|
Russians
|
121.7 |
9.4 |
13.3 |
64.0 |
|
Belarussians
|
4.3 |
0.3 |
0.4 |
67.3 |
|
Gipsies
|
1.4 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
83.3 |
|
Armenians
|
1.2 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
in 2.2 time more |
|
Moldavians
|
0.8 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
103.5 |
|
Jews
|
0.8 |
0.1 |
0.2 |
32.7 |
|
other
|
4.6 |
0.4 |
0.4 |
87.9 |
*) The table includes data about nationalities whose part in permanent population of the region was not less than 0.1%.
The part of Ukrainians in the national structure of population of region is the largest, it accounts for 1,152 thousand, or 88.8% of the population
Russians are the second numerous nation of region. Since 1989 their number has decreased by 36% and at the date of the census it accounted for 121.7 thousand people.
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