Population: Urban: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 952,011.000 Person in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 958,534.000 Person for 2023. Population: Urban: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 974,231.000 Person from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2024, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 984,392.000 Person in 2019 and a record low of 952,011.000 Person in 2024. Population: Urban: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Russian Federation – Table RU.GA011: Population: Urban: by Region.

Population: Female: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 1,024,579.000 Person in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,028,457.000 Person for 2022. Population: Female: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 1,036,476.500 Person from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2023, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,042,074.000 Person in 2019 and a record low of 1,024,579.000 Person in 2023. Population: Female: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Demographic and Labour Market – Table RU.GA010: Population: Female: by Region.

Population: Working Age: Urban: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 544,271.000 Person in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 532,571.000 Person for 2021. Population: Working Age: Urban: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 532,571.000 Person from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2022, with 9 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 544,271.000 Person in 2022 and a record low of 522,300.000 Person in 2018. Population: Working Age: Urban: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Demographic and Labour Market – Table RU.GA013: Population: Working Age: by Region.

More than 80 percent of Russians positively viewed the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia, according to a survey from March 2021. That month marked seven years after the annexation.

Opinion data from Hungary, Bulgaria and Latvia (including the Russian-speaking minority).

This survey focuses on relations with and attitudes towards Russia in three East European countries with a record of close ties with Russia – Latvia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. The survey was carried out against the backdrop of Russia´s annexation of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. It may be the very first survey to tap East European reactions to Russia’s drastic attempt to redraw the map of post-war Eastern Europe. The 2015 Post-Crimea Survey asks many of the key questions in the Baltic Barometer questions about identity, democracy, and the European Union (Baltic Barometer 2014).

Opinion data from Hungary, Bulgaria and Latvia (including the Russian-speaking minority). This survey focuses on relations with and attitudes towards Russia in three East European countries with a record of close ties with Russia – Latvia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. The survey was carried out against the backdrop of Russia´s annexation of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. It may be the very first survey to tap East European reactions to Russia’s drastic attempt to redraw the map of post-war Eastern Europe. The 2015 Post-Crimea Survey asks many of the key questions in the Baltic Barometer questions about identity, democracy, and the European Union (Baltic Barometer 2014). Opinionsdata från Ungern, Bulgarien och Lettland (inklusive den rysktalande minoriteten). Denna undersökning fokuserar på relationen med och attityder till Ryssland i tre östeuropeiska länder som historiskt haft nära band till Ryssland, nämligen Lettland, Ungern och Bulgarien. Undersökningen gjordes mot bakgrund av Rysslands annektering av Krim och östra Ukraina. Det kan vara den första undersökningen som tar del av östeuropeiska reaktioner på Rysslands drastiska försök att rita om kartan för efterkrigstidens Östeuropa. 2015 års undersökningen Post-Crimea, tar upp många av nyckelfrågorna i Baltic Barometer, så som identitet, demokrati och Europeiska unionen (Baltic Barometer 2014).

The Levada Center has been conducting omnibus surveys of the Russian population on a regular basis. This data collection includes questions about the attitude towards Western sanctions against Russia (enacted after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022) together with standard socio-demographic and political data about all respondents. It contains the raw data from a total of 30 opinion polls conducted from March 2014 to May 2022.

The documentation of data collection documents 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 this documentation lists all questions and answer options with an English translation.

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 files 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 Levada Center has been conducting omnibus surveys of the Russian population on a regular basis. This data collection includes questions about the attitude towards Western sanctions against Russia (enacted after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022) together with standard socio-demographic and political data about all respondents. It contains the raw data from a total of 32 opinion polls conducted from 1997 to 2021.

This documentation of data collection documents 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 this documentation lists all questions and answer options with an English translation.

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 files 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. An overview of some selected results is included in the data collection as separate file.

As of May 31, 2025, 13,341 civilians were reported to have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022. Prior to the war, fighting took place in eastern Ukraine between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and separatist forces supported by the Russian government. Over the course of 2021, 25 conflict-related deaths were recorded in Ukraine. Between April 14 and December 31, 2014, the number of killed civilians exceeded 2,084. These include 298 victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) which was shot down in July 2014. Euromaidan protests and the annexation of Crimea In late 2013, the pro-Russian government of Ukraine backtracked on further integration with the European Union (EU), which led to the Euromaidan period; anti-government protests then turned violent, resulting in almost 100 deaths and thousands of casualties, before the president was ousted. This was followed by the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, as well as its backing separatist paramilitaries in the eastern Oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk; in terms of ethnic composition, these three regions have the highest share of ethnic Russians. Within a month of the annexation, a referendum was held in Crimea and roughly 96 percent of the public voted in favor of joining Russia. The results and validity of the referendum, however, have not received international recognition, and international sanctions sent the Russian economy into recession, but Russia has held de facto control of Crimea since 2014. Ukraine after 2014 Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, was elected in 2014, and oversaw a period of further decommunization, European integration, and anti-corruption policies, as well as numerous ceasefires in the Donbas region (although none lasted more than six weeks). Poroshenko was defeated in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, with commentators citing various reasons, such as his own scandals, failure to engage with the Russian community, persistent corruption, and the popularity of his opponent. He was succeeded by a political outsider, the former comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who ran on a populist and reformist platform.

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.

Population: Rural: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 949,102.000 Person in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 950,965.000 Person for 2023. Population: Rural: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 950,507.000 Person from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2024, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 956,860.000 Person in 2021 and a record low of 933,754.000 Person in 2014. Population: Rural: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Russian Federation – Table RU.GA012: Population: Rural: by Region.

Population: Working Age: Rural: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 528,073.000 Person in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 514,592.000 Person for 2021. Population: Working Age: Rural: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 510,374.000 Person from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2022, with 9 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 528,073.000 Person in 2022 and a record low of 496,200.000 Person in 2018. Population: Working Age: Rural: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Demographic and Labour Market – Table RU.GA013: Population: Working Age: by Region.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified a total of 46,085 civilian casualties during Russia's invasion of Ukraine as of May 31, 2025. Of them, 32,744 people were reported to have been injured. However, OHCHR specified that the real numbers could be higher. How many people have died during the war in Ukraine? OHCHR has estimated the number of deaths of civilians, or non-armed individuals, in Ukraine at 13,341 since the start of the war on February 24, 2022. The highest death toll was recorded in March 2022, at over 3,900. The figures on soldier deaths are reported by Russia and Ukraine’s governmental authorities, but they cannot be verified at this point and thus need to be taken with caution. Conflict-related deaths in Ukraine from 2014 to 2021 After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukraine has seen a military conflict between the government and the Russia-supported separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. OHCHR estimates that between 14,200 and 14,400 people, including civilians and military personnel, were killed in relation to that conflict from April 14, 2014, to December 31, 2021. Of them, at least 3,400 were civilians.

In June 2025, 86 percent of Russians approved of the activities of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The popularity level was nine percentage points higher than in September 2022, when the figure declined following the announcement of a partial mobilization in the country. After Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February 2022, the approval rating increased. During the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, the figure declined. What has shifted Putin’s approval rating? Since his first presidential term started in 2000, Vladimir Putin's highest approval rating has been measured at 88 percent, when he was the country's prime minister. In 2008, as a result of the war with Georgia, Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In 2014, Russia annexed the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, viewing it as a historic reunification. Despite Western sanctions that were imposed on the country in response the violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the approval rating remained high over the following years. In February and March 2019, among the reasons behind the decline in approval were a pension reform and a retirement age hike. Constitutional amendments before the 2024 presidential election During his state of-the-nation speech in January 2020, Vladimir Putin suggested amendments to the Russian Constitution, some of which are aimed at restructuring the executive power within the country’s administration. Regarding the amendments, 47 percent of Russians believed that they were designed to prepare the political system for the period after 2024, allowing Putin to stay in power in a role different from a president. In March 2020, an amendment was proposed to the Constitution to reset the previous presidential terms of Putin, allowing him to stay as a president until 2036. The amendments were approved in an all-Russian voting with nearly 78 percent of Russians supporting them.

Population: Working Age: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 1,072,344.000 Person in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,047,163.000 Person for 2021. Population: Working Age: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 1,043,986.000 Person from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2022, with 9 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,072,344.000 Person in 2022 and a record low of 1,018,500.000 Person in 2018. Population: Working Age: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Russian Federation – Table RU.GA013: Population: Working Age: by Region.

Population: Male: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 884,920.000 Person in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 888,348.000 Person for 2022. Population: Male: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 889,330.500 Person from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2023, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 896,556.000 Person in 2019 and a record low of 870,768.000 Person in 2014. Population: Male: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Demographic and Labour Market – Table RU.GA009: Population: Male: by Region.

The actual boundaries were most recently adjusted in: January 2025.
Boundary information source: State Scientific Production Enterprise “Kartographia”.
Contributor: OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS).
COD-AB quality level: cod-enhanced (geometry and attributes verified and standardized) and live services available.
https://codgis.itos.uga.edu/arcgis/rest/services/COD_External/UKR_pcode/FeatureServerfeature server.
Most recent COD-AB review conclusion: The COD-AB does not require any update.
OCHA country status: Operational (country office).
An edge-matched (COD-EM) dataset is available
Most recent COD-AB review date: January 2025.
Deepest administrative level: ADM4.
COD-PS HDX URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-ukr.
Deepest administrative level with complete coverage: ADM3.
COD-EM HDX link: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-em-ukr.
Administrative level required by humanitarian community: ADM2.
Note: The Ukrainian government has not fully implemented its new administrative structure reforms in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea [UA01] and Sevastopol [UA85].
Consequently, 31 ADM4 features within the Sevastopol ADM3 polygon retain P-codes that do not correctly conform to [UA85]. This will be rectified in a COD-AB update once the government has regained control of the Crimean Peninsula.
Note: Some administrative feature names were adjusted in a September/October 2024 administratrive feature renaming exercise. See reference table at https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-ukr.
Note: The Ukraine COD-AB was most recently adjusted in early 2024 - affecting administrative level 3 (hromadas) only.
Note: The population statistics common operational dataset (COD-PS-UKR) is only available via special request. See Ukraine - Subnational Population Statistics. Users should use the 'Request Data' button.
Note: Limitations of the Ukrainian-to-Russian transliteration method mean that more than one Ukrainian name may be represented by a single Russian feature name.
Note: Feature name attribute fields in this dataset incorrectly use 'UA' to represent the Ukrainian language. The correct language code is 'UK'. This will be resolved in 2026.

Population with Income per Capita below Living Cost: % of Total: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 11.400 % in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 13.800 % for 2023. Population with Income per Capita below Living Cost: % of Total: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 17.350 % from Dec 2015 (Median) to 2024, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 23.100 % in 2015 and a record low of 11.400 % in 2024. Population with Income per Capita below Living Cost: % of Total: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Demographic and Labour Market – Table RU.GA015: Population with Income per Capita below Living Cost.

Population: Internet Use: Orders of Goods & Services: % of Total: SF: Republic of Crimea data was reported at 59.500 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 45.900 % for 2023. Population: Internet Use: Orders of Goods & Services: % of Total: SF: Republic of Crimea data is updated yearly, averaging 24.100 % from Dec 2015 (Median) to 2024, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 59.500 % in 2024 and a record low of 13.200 % in 2015. Population: Internet Use: Orders of Goods & Services: % of Total: SF: Republic of Crimea data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunications Sector – Table RU.TH003: Population: by Internet Use for Orders of Goods and Services: by Region.

This statistic shows the unemployment rate of Ukraine from 1999 to 2021. In 2021, the unemployment rate of Ukraine amounted to approximately 9.83 percent of the total labor force.

The economic situation in Ukraine

Amid the political and economic crisis, Ukraine’s unemployment is rising. When Russia seized and annexed Crimea in March of 2014, pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was also ousted and the economy of Ukraine took a hard hit. This resulted in sharp reductions in Ukraine’s GDP, and likely caused a sharp increase in unemployment as well. Before the turmoil, Russia was Ukraine’s most important import and export partner, having a significant impact on GDP after tension arose. Meanwhile, Ukraine was and still is getting itself out of economic despair; Ukraine has amassed more debt with the IMF than Greece and is trying to reduce this debt by implementing hyper-austerity, which involves making cuts to public spending. Spending on unemployment and disability insurance is a part of these cuts, which is not ideal for the Ukrainian people considering that the unemployment rate is expected to reach a rate of 11.47 percent in 2015. In times of increasing unemployment, a struggling economy and an inflation rate reaching almost 50 percent, 2015 is and will be a tough, if not desastrous year for the Ukrainian people.