In 2023, the majority of Ukrainians in Poland were women. Since 2021, the share of Ukrainian men decreased sharply. While the share was ** percent in 2021, it dropped to ** percent in 2023. This could be related to the fact that Ukrainian men have basically not been allowed to leave the country since the expansion of the Russian invasion in 2022.

As of January 1, 2022, the number of people younger than 18 years in Ukraine was approximately *** million. The adult population aged 18 years and older amounted to **** million, representing around ** percent of the total inhabitants. Over ** million people, or ** percent of all residents, were aged 60 years and older. What is the population of Ukraine? Ukraine is the eighth-most populated country in Europe, ranking between Poland and Romania by the number of inhabitants. In 2023, an estimated ** million people resided in Ukraine, down approximately **** million from two years prior. The population size has decreased significantly during the Russian invasion, as millions of refugees fled to other countries. Demographics of Ukraine The number of women in Ukraine exceeded that of men by approximately ***** million as of January 1, 2022. At that point, the country’s male population stood at approximately ** million. Over the past two decades, it decreased by over ***** million. The majority, or ***** out of ten Ukrainian residents, lived in cities. Both the urban and rural population saw a decline in the past 20 years.

In 2022, the population in Poland increased significantly after Ukrainian refugees arrived. As of April 1, Rzeszów had the highest population growth of ** percent. Gdansk and Wroclaw followed with a ** percent increase in population.

Russia launched its armed aggression against Ukraine in February 2014, seizing Crimea and subsequently occupying parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Russia started a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on multiple fronts, deploying troops and shelling Ukrainian cities and infrastructure. As of the end of 2023 the war against Ukraine is still ongoing and its outcome is unknown. At different stages of the war, KIIS has studied the public opinion of the Ukrainian population regarding Russian aggression. It included surveys on people's attitudes towards the annexation of Crimea, and Ukraine's countermeasures in Eastern Ukraine (Anti-Terrorist Operation, ATO) covering the period from 2014 to 2018. Since 2022, public opinion polls have asked questions regarding people's feelings and opinions about the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, perceptions of the government's actions, readiness for concessions / compromises to end the war, etc. Data from individual surveys for the period 2014-2023 (14 in total) were combined into a merged dataset. Each of these polls is representative of the Ukraine's adult population (aged 18 and older), and typically includes about 2,000 respondents. The background information includes respondents' socio-demographic profiles (gender, age, education, nationality, occupation, self-assessment of financial situation) and place of residence (oblast, type of settlement). These data provide a snapshot of public opinion of the Ukrainian population on some aspects of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Some questions are repeated, which makes it possible to track changes in opinions over time.

The total population of Ukraine was estimated at 33.34 million people in 2024. From 1992 to 2024, the total population steadily declined by 18.53 million people, reflecting a consistent downward movement over the entire period. The total population will increase by 600,000 people between 2024 and 2030, despite fluctuations along the way.This indicator describes the total population in the country at hand. This total population of the country consists of all persons falling within the scope of the census.

This forecast is an approximate estimate of Ukraine’s future population.

It is based on the estimate by the Institute for Demography and Quality of Life Issues of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine of the country’s population as of January 1, 2022, within the 1991 borders.

The forecast is built on expert assessments by specialists from the Institute for Demography and Quality of Life Issues of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine regarding changes in birth rates, life expectancy, and population migration. These expert assessments are based on data from the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on registered births and deaths, as well as migration data from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and international organizations.

The forecast was developed under the assumption that the Russian-Ukrainian war will end in 2026. It is conducted within the 1991 borders of Ukraine. The time period of the dataset covers January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2040.

The forecast is of a recommendatory nature and serves as a basis for developing state strategies and programs aimed at stabilizing the demographic situation.

Ukraine UA: Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data was reported at 1.063 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.064 Ratio for 2015. Ukraine UA: Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data is updated yearly, averaging 1.063 Ratio from Dec 1962 (Median) to 2016, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.066 Ratio in 2012 and a record low of 1.052 Ratio in 1977. Ukraine UA: Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ukraine – Table UA.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Sex ratio at birth refers to male births per female births. The data are 5 year averages.; ; United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision.; Weighted average;

The dataset includes data collected from a series of public opinion polls conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) from May 2022 to February 2025, on the question aimed at measuring the readiness of the Ukrainian population for territorial concessions to end the war. The question used was: 'Which of these statements about possible compromises to achieve peace with Russia do you agree with more?' The answer options were: 'To achieve peace as quickly as possible and maintain independence, Ukraine may give up some of its territories,' or 'Under no circumstances should Ukraine give up any of its territories, even if it means the war will last longer and there will be threats to maintaining independence.' The background information includes respondents' socio-demographic profiles (gender, age, education, nationality, occupation, self-assessment of financial situation) and place of residence (oblast, type of settlement). The merged dataset includes data from 13 polls from May 2022 to February 2025 with a total of 18,215 respondents. All survey waves were conducted with samples representative of the adult population (18 years and older) of Ukraine (within the territories controlled by the Ukrainian government as of February 24, 2022) using the CATI (computer-assisted telephone interview) method. The question was asked to either the full sample (2,000 respondents) or a subsample (1,000 respondents), depending on the survey wave. The data is available in an SAV format (Ukrainian, English) and a converted CSV format (with a codebook). The Data Documentation (pdf file) also includes a short overview and discussion of survey results.

New in version 1.1. The previous version (v1.0) contained data from the beginning of the monitoring (May 2022) up to May 2024. This version (v1.1) includes data from three new survey waves, extending the coverage period to February 2025.

The Levada Center has been conducting omnibus surveys of the Russian population on a regular basis. This data collection includes questions about the full-scale Russian military aggression against Ukraine which started on 24 February 2022 together with standard socio-demographic and political data about all respondents. It contains the raw data from 14 opinion polls conducted from March 2022 to April 2023.

Included in this data collection are the relevant questions from the Levada omnibus surveys copied into one file. The SPSS file (.sav) is the original file provided by the Levada Center. It has been exported into an Excel file. The content of the respective xlsx-file should be identical with the original sav-file.

The documentation of data collection lists the questions included in the dataset and provides information about the random-sample questionnaire-based nationally representative polls conducted as omnibus surveys. The original data file is in Russian, but the documentation lists all questions and answer options with an English translation.

Additionally, the data collection contains (1) an excerpt from a working paper outlining arguments against a reduced validity of Levada surveys. (2) a file detailing the response and rejections rates of the Levada omnibus surveys conducted in the first quarter of 2022 with a discussion by the Levada team and (3) a description of an experiment conducted by the Leveda Center to analyse the readiness of the Russian population to participate in surveys (available only in Russian language).

Compared to the previous version the results for January to April 2023 have been added. Moreover, for the full dataset two questions about media consumption have been added.

The data presented in this dataset have been compiled by the Levada Center. The dataset has been provided to the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen for open access publication (non-commercial use) on the DiscussData-platform. The documentation of data collection has been compiled by Heiko Pleines (Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen), who is also responsible for the upload of this data collection to the DiscussData-platform.

"Opinions and Views of the Population of Ukraine" is a regular omnibus survey, conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) among Ukraine's adult population and covering a wide range of topics. The data presented here is a subset of the survey conducted in September-October 2024 and include KIIS's own research questions.
Topics covered by the survey include: readiness for concessions for peace, and acceptability of hypothetical territorial concessions to Russia; views on Western support for Ukraine in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war; perception of Russia's resilience and how long Ukrainians are ready to bear the burden of war; attitudes toward Russia and Russian citizens; trust in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; perceptions of recent anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine; evaluation of national identity based on ethnic origin, language, and geographic location; social acceptance of various groups in different societal roles (refugees, internally displaced persons, residents of occupied territories, Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and citizens of Ukraine who identify as ethnically Russian).
Data collection took place from September 20 to October 03, 2024.
Some of the survey questions were asked to all respondents (n=2,004), while others were directed to a sub-sample of 989 respondents.
The data is available in an SAV format (Ukrainian, English) and a converted CSV format (with a codebook).
The Data Documentation (pdf file) also includes a short overview and discussion of survey results as well as the relevant parts of the original questionnaire.

This release of Data of population in major Ukrainian cities presents year, city, and population data of named Ukrainain cities between 1950-2023. Ukraine has a rich history and here are some interesting times to look at the data.

1986: Chernobyl Disaster 1990: Ukraine Declares Sovereignty 1991: Ukraine Leaves Soviet Union 2004-2005: Orange Revolution (after a rigged presidential election) 2014: Crimean Crisis 2022 - present: Russian-Ukrainian war (some say it started all the way back in 2014)

I am a Ukrainian myself and would love more people to know of our rich history!

Glory to Ukraine :)

The face-to-face survey was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation in cooperation with the Centre for Political Sociology from 5 to 15 June 2023.

A total of 2,001 respondents aged 18 or older took part in the survey in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Mykolaiiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Chernivtsi regions, and the city of Kyiv (in Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions – only in the territories controlled by Ukraine and not affected by hostilities).

The sampling technique used in the survey is multi-stage, with a random selection of localities in the first stage and a quota-based selection of respondents in the final stage. The random selection is representative of the demographic structure of the adult population in the areas covered by the survey at the beginning of 2022.

The maximum sampling error shall not exceed 2.3%. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account systematic deviations in the sample caused by the forced migration of millions of citizens due to the Russian-Ukrainian war.

COMPOSITION OF MACRO-REGIONS: West – Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi regions; Center – Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv regions, and the city of Kyiv; South – Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiiv, Kherson, and Odesa regions; East – Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions.

This dataset contains the original survey data. The SPSS file (.sav) is the original file. It has been exported to an Excel file. The content of the corresponding XLSX file should be identical to the original SAV file. The SAV file contains the questions and answer options of the original questionnaire in Ukrainian. The original questionnaire and an English translation have also been included in this data collection as separate PDF files.

In addition, the dataset includes a file of "selected findings", which documents some of the key findings of the survey in the form of analytical summaries and descriptive statistics. The report was prepared by the civil society organisation OPORA.

Among the sanctions that Western countries imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the ones whose impact was felt the most by the population were the inability to use Visa and MasterCard cards abroad and the ban on high-tech equipment and electronics exports into Russia, according to a survey conducted in March 2022. Furthermore, 15 percent of respondents believed the withdrawal of international companies from the country's market would have the most significant impact on them and their families.

PurposeThe study aims to highlight the behavior of people in a state in the vicinity of a military conflict zone. Specifically, it highlights the psychological behavior of Romanian citizens after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. It was considered appropriate to carry out this study, given the novelty of such a situation, since, after the end of the Second World War, Europe has no longer faced major problems of insecurity caused by armed conflicts of this magnitude.MethodsThe study was based on the questionnaire applied to a number of 1,193 people with permanent residence in Romania and a minimum age of 18 years. The data were collected in the beginning phase of the invasion of Ukraine by the troops of the Russian Federation, i.e. between March 1–17, 2022. The aim was to obtain information that would allow the observation of re-spondents' opinions on the conflict in Ukraine and its potential escalation, and on the other hand, to allow the assessment of quality of life, using the WHQOL-BREEF measurement instrument.ResultsBased on the results of the study, the highest average satisfaction among the four domains of WHOQOL-BREF is represented by the “Psychological” domain, of the category of people with the lowest fear about a potential future war between Romania and the Russian Federation (83.62 ± 17.48). On the contrary, the lowest average is represented by the “Environment” domain, for the category of persons who do not feel protected by the fact that Romania is a NATO member state (61.77 ± 20.96).ConclusionsThe results of the study show that the indices of the quality of life of the people in Romania, as a state in the proximity of a military conflict with the potential to escalate, are negatively influenced by the fears of people who believe that the war in Ukraine will escalate into a regional or global conflict, or that the Russian Federation is going to use its nuclear arsenal against Ukraine or another NATO member state.

War is the cause of tremendous human suffering. To reduce such harm, governments have developed tools to alert civilians of immi nent threats. Whether these systems are effective remains largely unknown. We study the introduction of an innovative smartphone application that notifies civilians of impending military operations developed in coordination with the Ukrainian government after the Russian invasion. We leverage quasi-experimental variation in the timing of more than 3,000 alerts to study civilian sheltering behavior, using high-frequency geolocation pings tied to 17 million mobile devices, 60% of the connected population in Ukraine. We find that, overall, civilians respond sharply to alerts, quickly seeking shelter. These rapid post-alert changes in population movement attenuate over time, however, in a manner that cannot be explained by adaptive sheltering behavior or calibration to the signal quality of alerts. Responsiveness is weakest when civilians have been living under an extended state of emergency, consistent with the presence of an alert fatigue effect. Our results suggest 35-45% of observed civilian casualties were avoided because of public responsiveness to the messaging system. Importantly, an additional 8-15% of civilian casualties observed during the later periods of the conflict could have been avoided with sustained public responsiveness to government alerts. We provide evidence that increasing civilians’ risk salience through targeted government messaging can increase responsiveness, suggesting a potential policy lever for sustaining public engagement during prolonged episodes of conflict.

Dataset Card for Russia Ukraine Conflict

  Dataset Summary

Context

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. The invasion caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 6.3 million Ukrainians fleeing the country and a third of the population displaced (Source: Wikipedia).

Content

This dataset is a collection of 407 news articles from NYT and Guardians related to ongoing… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/hugginglearners/russia-ukraine-conflict-articles.

This data collection offers a representative omnibus survey of the Ukrainian population, living in territories controlled by the Ukrainian government without ongoing armed hostilities. The survey was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation from 21 to 27 October 2022.

The survey includes face-to-face interviews with 2,018 respondents aged 18 years and older. The survey was conducted in 25 out of Ukraine’s 26 regions (not including Crimea). The theoretical error in sampling does not exceed 2.3%. At the same time, additional systematic deviations in sampling may be due to the consequences of Russian aggression, in particular the forced evacuation of millions of citizens.

This data collection contains the original survey data. The SPSS file (.sav) is the original file provided by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation. It has been exported into an Excel file. The content of the respective xlsx-file should be identical with the original sav-file. The sav-file contains the questions and answer options of the original questionnaire in Ukrainian. The original questionnaire is also included in this data collection as separate pdf-file. Additionally, the data collection contains the file “DIF_10.2022-selected-results.pdf" which documents some major results of the survey in the form of descriptive statistics in English.

The major thematic blocs refer to language usage (questions numbered with X) and ecology/ environmental issues and policies (questions numbered with Q). Additionally, there are questions about the socio-demographic status of the respondents (questions numbered with D). Questions X13-15, X17 as well as Q24-25 directly refer to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Please note that some questions about socio-demographic status (questions numbered with D) also include effects of the war (i.e. place of residence before the war) and about language use (language spoken at home).

Data on ecology/ environmental issues could be included in this data collection thanks to permission by the International Charity Organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) (Lviv).

IntroductionIn addition to the health crisis that erupted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine is impacting the mental health and wellbeing of the Romanian population in a negative way.ObjectivesThis study sets out to investigate the impact that social media consumption and an overload of information related to the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine is having on the distribution of fake news among Romanians. In addition, it explores the way in which several psychological features, including resilience, general health, perceived stress, coping strategies, and fear of war, change as a function of exposure to traumatic events or interaction with victims of war.MethodsParticipants (N = 633) completed the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), the CERQ scale with its nine subscales, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and the BRS scale (Brief Resilience Scale), the last of which measures resilience. Information overload, information strain and the likelihood of the person concerned spreading fake news were assessed by adapting items related to these variables.FindingsOur results suggest that information strain partially moderates the relationship between information overload and the tendency to spread false information. Also, they indicate that information strain partially moderates the relationship between time spent online and the tendency to spread false information. Furthermore, our findings imply that there are differences of high and moderate significance between those who worked with refugees and those who did not as regards fear of war and coping strategies. We found no practical differences between the two groups as regards general health, level of resilience and perceived stress.Conclusion and recommendationsThe importance of discovering the reasons why people share false information is discussed, as is the need to adopt strategies to combat this behavior, including infographics and games designed to teach people how to detect fake news. At the same time, aid workers need to be further supported to maintain a high level of psychological wellbeing.

Abstract

Starting in February 2022, an increasing number of refugees and third-country nationals (TCNs) entering Poland was registered as a result of the war in Ukraine. As of July 2022, over 4.3 million arrivals have been reported by the Polish authorities from Ukraine. To ensure that reponse actors have the necessary evidence base to effectively respond to the needs of Ukrainian refugee households in Poland, UNHCR and REACH carried out this joint Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA) targeting the population displaced due to the war in Ukraine and currently residing in Poland.

Due to lack of complete data on location and profile of refugees residing in Poland, PESEL registration data (the national identification number used in Poland) was used as a proxy indicator for sampling for non-probability quota sampling for refugees residing in the host community. The sample includea two distinct population groups: refugees living in host community, outside of the collective sites (CSs), and refugees residing in CSs. Refugees living outside of CSs cover a variety of accommodation types, including private accommodation, being hosted by family, friends, or by Polish families, among others. This dataset is the anonymous version of the original dataset.

Geographic coverage

All voivodeship in Poland

Analysis unit

Households

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Two approaches have been taken: a non-probability quota sampling for refugees residing in host community; and purposive sampling for refugees in collective sites.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

The Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (Kyiv) conducted a face-to-face poll in cooperation with the Center for Political Sociology (Kyiv) from 07 to 15 May 2022 in seven western and four central regions of Ukraine. 1,000 respondents were interviewed at the place of their permanent residence. Migrants/refugees/IDPs were not included. The poll does not reflect the opinion of the population of the unsampled central, southern and eastern regions of Ukraine which are most affected by the war.

The 62 questions of the poll cover the topics of Ukraine's friends and enemies, the country's strategic goals plus basic socio-demographic and identity-related indicators.

The SPSS file contains the original Ukrainian wording of the questions. The original Ukrainian questionnaire togehter with an English translation is available as seperate file (questionnaire.pdf). This file is also needed if the Excel-version of the raw data (converted file format) is used.