According to the data of the All-Ukrainian Population Census‘2001, the number of men totalled 22,441,000 people, or 46.3%, that of women - 26,016,000 people, or 53.7%

Gender structure of population by regions of Ukraine

	Actual population thousand persons		as % of total population		Reference by 1989 year
	male	female	male	female	male	female
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	937.6	1096.1	46	54	47	53
Cherkasy region	638.8	764.2	46	54	45	55
Chernihiv region	565.5	679.7	45	55	44	56
Chernivtsi region	432.1	490.7	47	53	46	54
Dnipropetrovs'k region	1643.3	1924.3	46	54	46	54
Donets'k region	2219.9	2621.2	46	54	46	54
Ivano-Frankivs'k region	665.2	744.5	47	53	47	53
Kharkiv region	1339.5	1574.7	46	54	46	54
Kherson region	548.5	626.6	47	53	47	53
Khmel'nyts'kyi region	659.9	770.8	46	54	46	54
Kirovohrad region	520.8	612.2	46	54	46	54
Kyiv region	845.9	982.0	46	54	46	54
Luhans'k region	1169.9	1376.3	46	54	46	54
L'viv region	1245.1	1381.4	47	53	47	53
Mykolaiv region	588.2	676.6	47	53	46	54
Odesa region	1155.4	1313.6	47	53	47	53
Poltava region	747.4	882.7	46	54	45	55
Rivne region	555.6	617.7	47	53	47	53
Sumy region	593.8	705.9	46	54	45	55
Ternopil' region	530.2	612.3	46	54	46	54
Vinnytsia region	809.6	962.8	46	54	45	55
Volyn' region	500.1	560.6	47	53	47	53
Zakarpattia region	605.5	652.8	48	52	48	52
Zaporizhzhia region	886.6	1042.6	46	54	46	54
Zhytomyr region	644.8	744.7	46	54	46	54
The city of Kyiv	1218.7	1392.7	47	53	47	53
The city of Sevastopol' х)	173.5	206.0	46	54	47	53

  ^х) Including settlements that are administratively subordinated to the town’s council

    Foregoing data say about gradual decrease in gender disproportion in the population of Ukraine, if in 1989 there were 1163 women per 1000 men, than in 2001 – 1159. These changes are explained by changes in gender structure of rural population, where since 1989 gender ratio has changed from 1205 women per 1000 men to 1151 women per 1000 men. The reverse situation is in towns, where this index has increased from 1143 women per 1000 men in 1989 to 1163 women per 1000 men in 2001. Besides, according to the data of the last census, the proportion of women to men at the reproductive age become better, since the index, calculated like division of number of women in this age group by 1000 men in corresponding age, come to 1031.

    State Statistics Committee of Ukraine