Ukraine's population was estimated at 45982.9 thsd. people on 1 st December 2009. During January-November 2009 the population decreased by 160.8 thsd. people that amounted to 3.8 persons per 1000 population.

    The decline in population by 172.6 thsd. people was exclusively due to natural decrease, at the same time an increase of 11.8 thsd. people due to migration was registered.

    In comparison with January-November 2008 the volume of a natural decrease reduced by 50.0 thsd. people or from 5.3 ‰ to 4.1‰. A natural decrease of the population was registered in 23 Ukraine`s regions, but only in Kyiv city, Zakarpattya, Rivne and Volyn` regions a natural increase of the population (3901, 2545, 2069 and 767 people, respectively) was registered.

    A natural population movement in January-November 2009 was characterized by birth rate increase and death rate decrease and a significant surplus of the number of deaths over the number of live births: 100 deaths per 73 live births.

	Total, thsd.		January-November, 2009 in % to January-November, 2008	Per 1000 people 1
	January-November, 2009	January-November, 2008		January-November, 2009	January-November, 2008
Live births	471.4	466.9	100.9	11.2	11.0
incl. dead births	30462	30992	98.3	6.43	6.63
Deaths	644.0	689.5	93.4	15.3	16.3
incl. infants under 1 year old	43952	45842	95.9	9.24	10.34
Natural decrease	172.6	222.6	77.5	4.1	5.3
Marriages	302.5	306.6	98.7	7.2	7.2
Divorces	132.2	152.8	86.5	3.1	3.6

     During the period January-November 2009 there was a significant difference in the birth rate: from 9.1 ‰ in Sumy region to 15.3 ‰ in Rivne region that reflect the data in the table below.

Birth rate, ‰	Regions with relevant birth rate
11.2	Ukraine
up to 10.2	Sumy, Luhans`k, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Donets`k, Poltava, Kharkiv
10.2-11.1	Zaporizhzhya, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsya, Mykolayiv, Khmel`nyts`kyyi, Dnipropetrovs`k
11.2-12.1	Sevastopol` (city council), Kherson, Ternopil`, Kyiv city, Zhytomyr, L`viv, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Kyiv
12.2-13.1	Odesa, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivs`k
over 13.1	Zakarpattya, Volyn`, Rivne

    The death rate decreased from 16.3 ‰ in January-November 2008 to 15.3 ‰ in January-November 2009. The highest death rate was registered in Chernihiv region (19.7 ‰), the lowest – in Kyiv city (10.2 ‰).

Death rate, ‰	Regions with relevant death rate
15.3	Ukraine
up to 14.3	Kyiv city, Zakarpattya, Ivano-Frankivs`k, L`viv, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn`
14.3-15.2	Ternopil`, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol` (city council), Odesa
15.3-16.2	Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolayiv, Vinnytsya, Khmel`nyts`kyyi
16.3-17.2	Dnipropetrovs`k, Kyiv, Donets`k, Luhans`k, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr
over 17.2	Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv

    During 11 months of 2009 there were registered 3046 dead births that is by 53 deaths less compared to the relevant period of last year. The number of infant death under 1 year of age decreased by 189 cases.

  The leading causes of infant death under 1 year of age were certain conditions arising in the perinatal period, congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal anomalies, external causes, diseases of nervous system, diseases of the respiratory system, some infectious and parasitic diseases as illustrated in the figure below. There remains a significant part of infants (4.8 %.) whose death cause has not been established.

     Among death causes registered in the period January-November 2009 and in the period January-November 2008 the first place occupied the diseases of blood circulatory system that were followed by neoplasms and external causes.

	People		In % to the total		Per 100 thsd. people1
	January-November, 2009	January-November, 2008	January-November, 2009	January-November, 2008	January-November, 2009	January-November, 2008
Total deaths	643956	689513	100.0	100.0	1527.7	1628.2
incl. diseases of blood circulatory system	419178	438064	65.1	63.5	994.5	1034.4
neoplasms	80837	81567	12.5	11.8	191.8	192.6
external causes	44178	55855	6.9	8.1	104.8	131.9
including lethal traffic accidents	5969	9044	0.9	1.3	14.2	21.4
accidental drownings and submersions	2953	3373	0.5	0.5	7.0	8.0
accidental poisonings and effects of alcohol	5118	7434	0.8	1.1	12.1	17.6
intentional self-harm	9114	8731	1.4	1.3	21.6	20.6
consequences of an attack with the intention of murder or injury	2810	3410	0.4	0.5	6.7	8.1

The rate of marriages in the period January-November 2009 in comparison with the relevant period of last year did not change and constituted 7.2 ‰and the rate of divorces decreased from 3.6 ‰to 3.1 ‰.
    In January-November 2009 the migration balance increased in comparison with the relevant period of 2009 by 11.8 thsd. people. The increase of migration was registered in 11 regions and its decrease in 16 regions.

	Total, thsd.		January-November , 2009 in % to January-November, 2008	Per 1000 people 1
	January- November, 2009	January- November, 2008		January- November, 2009	January- November, 2008
all migration flows
arrived	589.2	658.3	89.5	14	15.5
left	577.4	645.6	89.4	13.7	15.2
migration increase (decrease)	11.8	12.7	92.8	0.3	0.3
immigration
arrived	559.4	624.8	89.5	13.3	14.7
left	559.4	624.8	89.5	13.3	14.7
migration increase (decrease)	х	х	х	х	х
emmigration
arrived	29.8	33.5	88.8	0.7	0.8
left	18	20.8	86.4	0.4	0.5
migration increase (decrease)	11.8	12.7	92.8	0.3	0.3
1Here and further the figures are given per year.

    Almost half of arrived to Ukraine registered their place of living in 5 regions (Kyiv city, Odesa, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Donets`k and Kharkiv regions).