Population of Donetsk region. Population of Donetsk region

Donetsk region is a region with a high concentration of industrial production, transport and a significant population density. According to the State Statistics Committee, as of 01.01.2015 the population of the Donetsk region is estimated at 4.31 million people. The population density is 165 people / km ² - this indicator is 2.2 times higher than the average for Ukraine (75.5 people / km²).

Statistics

On the question of how many people in the Donetsk region, definitely no one will answer. It should be borne in mind that a difficult political situation significantly affects the migration of residents of the region, so their exact number can not be calculated at the moment. As of 01.01.2013, 18 districts, 52 cities (28 of which are of regional importance), 131 urban settlements and 1118 other settlements, totaling 4,375,000 people, were registered in the region. The urban population was 3964200 inhabitants (91%), rural - 411000 (9%). The percentage ratio is approximately the same and remains, although the absolute data noticeably decreased.

In the territory that occupies 4.4% of Ukraine's area, about 20% of all production capacities of the country are concentrated and 9.6% of the population live. By number, the Donetsk region occupied the unconditional first place among other regions of the country.

The demographic crisis

The population of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions has decreased markedly because of the armed conflict. Data from different sources differ, but even modest estimates suggest hundreds of thousands of refugees who left the region. The authorities of the People's Democratic Republic of Latvia and the People's Republic of Finland speak of 825,000 refugees (450,000 from Donetsk and 375,000 from Lugansk regions), the FMS of the Russian Federation reported 733,000 migrants. The UN data is much more modest: 200,000 displaced citizens in Russia and 190,000 in Ukraine.

But even before these events, a demographic crisis was observed in the Donbas . Thus, in 2013, compared to 2012, the population of the Donetsk region decreased by 27,700 people, including 23,100 in urban settlements, and 4,500 in rural areas. With a population of 1 thousand people, the population decreased by 6.3 people, while the intensity of reduction in rural areas is 1.9 times higher (11 people per 1000 inhabitants) than in urban settlements (5.8 per 1000).

The total population decline in 2012 was 99.7% due to natural decline (the number of deaths was 1.6 times higher than the number of births) and 0.3% due to migration outflows (the number of dropouts exceeded by 0.1% Number of arrivals).

Dynamics

In the 1930s Donetsk region became the largest in the population of Ukraine, ahead of Vinnytsia region. In 1959, there were 10.2% of Ukraine's population, in 1970 and 1979 - 10.4%. In 1989 the population of the Donetsk region decreased to 10.3%, in 2014 - to 9.6%. The share of elderly citizens (over 60 years) in the Donbass is 10.7% of the country's population, while only 8.3% of the population under the age of 14 years old.

During the events of 2014 a part of the territory of the Donetsk region was formed quasi-state formation - the Donetsk People's Republic. As of 2015, it controlled about one third of the area of the Donetsk region, where before the war 55.8% of its population lived.

Population: Ukraine, Donetsk region

Historical dynamics of population change in the Donetsk region:

• 1926: 1645000 people.
• 1939: 3,099,810
• 1959: 4262048 people.
• 1970: 4891979 people.
• 1979: 5160641 people
• 1989: 5332395 people.
• 2001: 4841074
• 2014: 4343900

The first half of 2015

Although the population of the Donetsk region is not known reliably, local authorities on both sides keep statistics. The main demographic indicators for January-June 2015 compared with the same period in 2014:

Age structure

Population of Donbass among the regions of Ukraine is characterized by the highest rates of population aging. In 1989, the population under the age of 14 decreased by 50% (in Ukraine - 40%), over 65, by contrast, increased by 31% (in Ukraine - 15%).

In the period 1989-2014. The average age in the region increased by 5.7 years (in Ukraine - by 4.1 years), the median - by 6.5 years (in Ukraine - for 5 years). What is the greatest increase in the average age of the population among all Ukrainian regions.

In 2014 the average age of citizens was 42.5 years, which is 1.9 years more than the average Ukrainian. According to this coefficient Donetsk region occupies the penultimate place among the regions of Ukraine, only in the Chernigov region the average age of the population was more. The median age of the Donetsk region's population in 2014 was 42.1 years - 2.3 years more than in Ukraine.

Urbanization

In the Donetsk region, the highest level of urbanization among the regions of Ukraine is recorded, over 90% of its population live in cities. This indicator has been stable over the past decades, compared to 1979 it grew by only 1.5%, and compared to 1989 - by 0.3%.

Simultaneously, the urban population of the Donetsk region together with the neighboring Lugansk region are characterized by the highest rates of depopulation in Ukraine. In 1989-2014 The urban population of the region decreased by 18.2%, which is twice higher than the average for Ukraine (9.4%). On the Donetsk region in 1989-2014. Accounted for 27% of the total reduction of the urban population of Ukraine (877400 of 3251000).

Largest cities

List of cities in Donbass (2014) by number of inhabitants:

• Donetsk: 945000 people.
• Mariupol: 458,000 people.
• Makeevka: 352,000 people.
• Gorlovka: 254,000 people.
• Kramatorsk: 163,000 people.
• Slavyansk: 116,000 people.
• Enakieve: 81,000 people.
• Artemovsk: 77000 people.
• Konstantinovka: 76,000 people.
• Krasnoarmeysk: 64,000 people.
• Druzhkovka: 59,000 people.
• Khartsyzsk: 58000 people.

Ethno-linguistic structure

The composition of the population of the Donetsk region due to the post-war large-scale restoration of industrial enterprises, which required the recruitment of labor resources from the interior regions of the USSR, is characterized by national diversity.

Although citizens who consider themselves to be Ukrainians, the majority, the bulk of the population prefers to speak in Russian. Dynamics of the native language of Donbass according to census data:

Place of Birth

The population of the Donetsk region has a significant percentage of newcomers. Statistics for 2001 (census data) indicate that 85.2% of Donbass residents were born in the territory of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR), 14.3% in the CIS (for example, 11.9% in the RSFSR / RF) and 0.3% - in the far abroad.

Among those born on the territory of Ukraine 74.4% were born in the territory of Donbass, 10.8% - in other areas. Compared with the 1989 census, the proportion of natives of the Donetsk region in its population increased by 11.4% (from 63.0% to 74.4%), natives of other regions of Ukraine decreased by 5% (from 15.7% to 10 , 7%), natives of Russia decreased by 8.6% (from 17.5% to 8.8%).