Ukraine abortions and live births by oblast, 1990-2024

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 22 July 2025

Note: Russia has occupied several regions of Ukraine following the Russian invasions in 2014 and 2022. Russia claims annexation of these regions but this is not generally recognized by the international community. Ukraine has not been able to report data for occupied regions; some data have been reported by Russia. For more information see this page.

Reported abortions by oblast of residence, 1990-2024

oblast 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 oblast

Cherkasy 13,534 1,842 2,011 Cherkasy

Chernihiv 7,873 1,290 909 Chernihiv

Chernivtsi 13,427 1,117 703 Chernivtsi

Crimea 22,740 8,635 9,089 8,928 7,839 6,861 6,562 6,174 5,370 5,412 Crimea

Dnipropetrovsk 43,079 6,318 4,925 Dnipropetrovsk

Donetsk 48,765 3,434 584 Donetsk

Ivano-Frankivsk 7,001 1,330 1,157 Ivano-Frankivsk

Kharkiv 37,410 3,422 1,982 Kharkiv

Kherson 15,164 2,033 197 Kherson

Khmelnytskiy 9,257 1,456 1,209 Khmelnytskiy

Kirovohrad 15,299 1,385 1,001 Kirovohrad

Kyiv 17,565 2,772 2,549 Kyiv

Kyiv (city) 29,049 4,596 3,967 Kyiv (city)

Luhansk 34,278 1,047 Luhansk

Lviv 19,151 23,219 17,064 14,974 13,129 12,065 11,508 10,559 9,096 8,953 7,509 7,479 7,070 6,485 6,190 6,699 5,790 5,128 4,702 4,257 3,472 3,160 3,048 2,670 2,612 2,413 2,444 2,327 Lviv

Mykolayiv 15,030 2,259 1,776 Mykolayiv

Odesa 23,663 3,494 3,214 Odesa

Poltava 21,582 2,207 2,077 Poltava

Rivne 6,916 1,144 1,253 Rivne

Sevastopol (city) 6,299 2,213 2,235 2,098 2,052 1,669 1,701 1,545 1,321 1,404 1,614 Sevastopol (city)

Sumy 15,396 1,271 1,178 Sumy

Ternopil 4,961 569 550 Ternopil

Vinnytsya 16,635 2,701 2,444 Vinnytsya

Volyn 7,916 1,495 1,424 Volyn

Zakarpattya 8,230 1,413 1,353 Zakarpattya

Zaporizhzhya 26,886 2,445 753 Zaporizhzhya

Zhytomyr 10,741 1,504 1,518 Zhytomyr

UKRAINE TOTAL 1,019,038 957,022 932,272 860,996 798,538 740,172 687,035 596,740 525,329 495,760 434,223 369,750 345,967 315,835 289,065 263,590 229,618 225,336 217,413 194,845 176,774 169,131 153,147 147,736 116,104 106,357 101,121 94,665 86,678 79,562 64,893 55,156 46,992 45,186 41,061 UKRAINE TOTAL

Reported live births by oblast, 1990-2024

oblast 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 oblast

Cherkasy 11,270 10,580 10,524 10,429 11,526 11,801 12,466 12,594 12,462 12,473 12,798 12,100 12,351 11,508 10,582 9,640 8,637 7,620 7,223 6,825 Cherkasy

Chernihiv 9,728 8,813 8,922 8,792 9,445 9,500 10,039 10,534 10,091 10,134 10,222 9,852 9,552 9,104 8,506 7,573 6,854 6,129 5,925 5,338 Chernihiv

Chernivtsi 8,865 9,108 9,711 9,887 10,161 10,029 11,067 11,050 11,032 11,281 11,592 11,465 11,679 10,657 10,226 9,433 8,710 8,295 8,093 7,836 Chernivtsi

Crimea 15,023 17,419 17,941 17,983 20,041 21,667 23,353 23,524 23,238 23,394 24,702 24,054 24,330 24,039 22,944 20,849 18,868 18,172 15,834 Crimea

Dnipropetrovsk 26,082 29,165 31,035 30,123 33,531 34,502 37,383 37,309 35,593 36,116 37,087 36,134 36,497 33,425 31,000 27,504 25,121 22,526 21,309 19,508 14,433 Dnipropetrovsk

Donetsk 30,503 33,433 35,525 35,883 39,327 40,560 44,394 43,374 41,258 41,720 42,839 41,034 35,595 16,899 19,321 17,691 15,894 14,674 11,036 10,134 Donetsk

Ivano-Frankivsk 14,548 14,113 14,992 14,994 15,813 16,243 16,983 17,333 16,343 16,497 17,101 16,716 16,886 15,583 14,660 13,426 12,645 12,128 11,793 10,545 Ivano-Frankivsk

Kharkiv 19,845 21,510 22,782 22,449 24,025 25,269 27,207 27,226 26,286 26,317 27,244 26,700 27,690 24,939 24,004 21,631 19,657 18,038 16,729 15,482 Kharkiv

Kherson 10,370 10,502 10,363 10,150 11,475 11,570 12,473 12,323 12,388 12,085 12,643 12,300 12,308 11,372 10,769 9,964 9,095 8,374 7,650 7,113 Kherson

Khmelnytskiy 12,883 12,251 12,647 12,396 13,477 13,712 14,822 14,690 14,414 14,492 14,881 14,548 14,631 13,793 12,743 11,483 10,698 9,939 9,694 8,681 Khmelnytskiy

Kirovohrad 9,181 9,178 9,392 8,967 9,755 10,076 10,538 10,916 10,531 10,578 11,029 10,562 10,576 9,456 8,859 7,845 7,077 6,356 6,048 5,533 Kirovohrad

Kyiv 13,672 15,080 16,016 16,460 17,383 18,378 20,195 20,616 19,737 20,083 20,966 20,511 20,900 20,205 19,027 16,998 15,236 14,283 14,205 12,632 10,820 Kyiv

Kyiv (city) 18,323 23,275 25,884 26,258 28,101 28,445 31,965 32,488 32,082 32,068 33,887 33,305 34,821 35,558 36,570 35,359 34,586 32,503 30,670 29,611 19,979 Kyiv (city)

Luhansk 16,169 17,507 17,856 17,877 19,833 20,326 22,259 21,671 20,969 21,320 21,743 20,531 11,442 5,340 6,485 5,973 5,652 5,031 4,013 3,356 Luhansk

Lviv 38,693 37,685 36,612 34,717 32,477 31,470 30,400 28,010 27,373 24,529 24,198 23,569 24,005 25,009 26,255 26,082 27,272 27,454 29,007 30,079 28,651 28,904 30,220 29,542 30,270 27,909 27,134 25,002 23,253 21,803 21,129 19,440 16,638 Lviv

Mykolayiv 10,413 11,118 11,059 10,928 11,736 12,363 13,378 13,093 12,831 13,029 13,515 13,043 13,076 11,533 10,781 10,073 9,141 7,966 7,633 7,029 Mykolayiv

Odesa 19,969 22,326 23,343 23,915 25,113 26,759 28,780 28,986 28,690 29,225 30,384 29,075 29,465 27,416 26,417 25,195 23,144 20,938 20,555 19,280 13,736 Odesa

Poltava 12,228 11,835 11,792 11,994 13,564 13,334 14,748 14,755 14,250 14,167 14,635 14,296 14,504 13,481 12,476 11,070 10,193 9,043 8,629 8,063 Poltava

Rivne 14,188 13,940 14,558 14,483 15,758 15,759 17,089 17,544 17,074 17,697 18,316 17,445 17,169 16,137 15,688 14,371 13,380 12,316 12,164 11,691 9,542 Rivne

Sevastopol (city) 2,551 3,279 3,681 3,641 3,840 3,994 4,170 4,257 4,184 4,252 4,584 4,463 4,881 5,410 5,402 4,956 4,225 4,234 3,707 Sevastopol (city)

Sumy 9,571 9,088 9,066 8,913 10,129 10,108 10,835 10,681 10,360 10,473 11,093 10,411 10,344 9,795 8,822 8,059 7,114 6,483 6,002 5,484 Sumy

Ternopil 11,197 10,476 11,094 11,035 11,623 11,431 12,388 12,404 11,872 11,964 12,202 11,807 11,717 10,776 9,974 9,289 8,545 7,896 7,846 7,275 Ternopil

Vinnytsya 15,859 15,048 15,525 15,174 16,287 16,711 17,914 18,053 17,508 17,894 18,339 17,437 17,547 16,427 15,316 14,142 12,769 11,878 11,486 10,529 Vinnytsya

Volyn 11,798 11,883 12,468 12,756 13,728 13,990 15,301 15,290 14,848 14,620 15,346 14,700 14,668 13,378 13,033 11,914 11,270 10,420 10,448 9,852 Volyn

Zakarpattya 13,894 14,747 15,472 15,750 16,530 16,833 18,292 18,219 18,301 18,460 18,968 18,490 18,377 16,788 16,000 14,552 13,883 13,016 13,503 12,631 9,450 Zakarpattya

Zaporizhzhya 13,880 15,301 16,091 15,862 17,241 17,591 18,901 18,409 18,018 18,198 18,882 18,134 18,713 16,579 15,664 14,155 12,708 11,543 10,523 9,571 Zaporizhzhya

Zhytomyr 12,669 12,607 13,265 12,904 13,654 14,252 14,641 15,108 14,678 15,154 15,486 15,001 15,115 13,725 12,982 11,645 10,612 9,619 9,151 8,544 Zhytomyr

UKRAINE TOTAL 657,202 630,813 596,785 539,506 507,204 492,861 467,211 442,581 419,238 389,208 385,126 376,478 390,688 408,591 427,259 426,085 460,368 472,657 510,588 512,526 497,689 502,595 520,704 503,656 465,893 411,783 397,039 363,987 335,874 308,817 293,457 271,983 190,393 176,981 UKRAINE TOTAL

Sources (incomplete):

Kypsovi diplomni referati, on line [http://osvita-plaza.in.ua/index/biblioteka_bzhd_bezpeka_zhittedijalnosti/0-1126].
2005, "Analitichni materiali," KPU, on line [http://www.kpu-kiev.org.ua/analitica.php?message_id=15§ion_id=19].
State Statistics Service of Ukraine, 2017, "Statistical Yearbook of Lviv region 2016, Part I," on line, State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
State Statistics Service of Ukraine, 2022, "Total rates of natural population movement, by type of area and region," on line, State Statistics Service of Ukraine [https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/].

© 2010, 2025 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 22 July 2025.
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oblast	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	oblast
Cherkasy										13,534																						1,842			2,011	Cherkasy
Chernihiv										7,873																						1,290			909	Chernihiv
Chernivtsi										13,427																						1,117			703	Chernivtsi
Crimea										22,740															8,635	9,089	8,928	7,839	6,861	6,562	6,174	5,370	5,412			Crimea
Dnipropetrovsk										43,079																						6,318			4,925	Dnipropetrovsk
Donetsk										48,765																						3,434			584	Donetsk
Ivano-Frankivsk										7,001																						1,330			1,157	Ivano-Frankivsk
Kharkiv										37,410																						3,422			1,982	Kharkiv
Kherson										15,164																						2,033			197	Kherson
Khmelnytskiy										9,257																						1,456			1,209	Khmelnytskiy
Kirovohrad										15,299																						1,385			1,001	Kirovohrad
Kyiv										17,565																						2,772			2,549	Kyiv
Kyiv (city)										29,049																						4,596			3,967	Kyiv (city)
Luhansk										34,278																						1,047				Luhansk
Lviv	19,151					23,219				17,064	14,974	13,129	12,065	11,508	10,559	9,096	8,953	7,509	7,479	7,070	6,485	6,190	6,699	5,790	5,128	4,702	4,257	3,472	3,160	3,048	2,670	2,612	2,413	2,444	2,327	Lviv
Mykolayiv										15,030																						2,259			1,776	Mykolayiv
Odesa										23,663																						3,494			3,214	Odesa
Poltava										21,582																						2,207			2,077	Poltava
Rivne										6,916																						1,144			1,253	Rivne
Sevastopol (city)										6,299															2,213	2,235	2,098	2,052	1,669	1,701	1,545	1,321	1,404	1,614		Sevastopol (city)
Sumy										15,396																						1,271			1,178	Sumy
Ternopil										4,961																						569			550	Ternopil
Vinnytsya										16,635																						2,701			2,444	Vinnytsya
Volyn										7,916																						1,495			1,424	Volyn
Zakarpattya										8,230																						1,413			1,353	Zakarpattya
Zaporizhzhya										26,886																						2,445			753	Zaporizhzhya
Zhytomyr										10,741																						1,504			1,518	Zhytomyr
UKRAINE TOTAL	1,019,038	957,022	932,272	860,996	798,538	740,172	687,035	596,740	525,329	495,760	434,223	369,750	345,967	315,835	289,065	263,590	229,618	225,336	217,413	194,845	176,774	169,131	153,147	147,736	116,104	106,357	101,121	94,665	86,678	79,562	64,893	55,156	46,992	45,186	41,061	UKRAINE TOTAL

oblast	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	oblast
Cherkasy										11,270				10,580	10,524	10,429	11,526	11,801	12,466	12,594	12,462	12,473	12,798	12,100	12,351	11,508	10,582	9,640	8,637	7,620	7,223	6,825				Cherkasy
Chernihiv										9,728				8,813	8,922	8,792	9,445	9,500	10,039	10,534	10,091	10,134	10,222	9,852	9,552	9,104	8,506	7,573	6,854	6,129	5,925	5,338				Chernihiv
Chernivtsi										8,865				9,108	9,711	9,887	10,161	10,029	11,067	11,050	11,032	11,281	11,592	11,465	11,679	10,657	10,226	9,433	8,710	8,295	8,093	7,836				Chernivtsi
Crimea										15,023				17,419	17,941	17,983	20,041	21,667	23,353	23,524	23,238	23,394	24,702	24,054	24,330	24,039	22,944	20,849			18,868	18,172			15,834	Crimea
Dnipropetrovsk										26,082				29,165	31,035	30,123	33,531	34,502	37,383	37,309	35,593	36,116	37,087	36,134	36,497	33,425	31,000	27,504	25,121	22,526	21,309	19,508		14,433		Dnipropetrovsk
Donetsk										30,503				33,433	35,525	35,883	39,327	40,560	44,394	43,374	41,258	41,720	42,839	41,034	35,595	16,899	19,321	17,691	15,894	14,674	11,036	10,134				Donetsk
Ivano-Frankivsk										14,548				14,113	14,992	14,994	15,813	16,243	16,983	17,333	16,343	16,497	17,101	16,716	16,886	15,583	14,660	13,426	12,645	12,128	11,793	10,545				Ivano-Frankivsk
Kharkiv										19,845				21,510	22,782	22,449	24,025	25,269	27,207	27,226	26,286	26,317	27,244	26,700	27,690	24,939	24,004	21,631	19,657	18,038	16,729	15,482				Kharkiv
Kherson										10,370				10,502	10,363	10,150	11,475	11,570	12,473	12,323	12,388	12,085	12,643	12,300	12,308	11,372	10,769	9,964	9,095	8,374	7,650	7,113				Kherson
Khmelnytskiy										12,883				12,251	12,647	12,396	13,477	13,712	14,822	14,690	14,414	14,492	14,881	14,548	14,631	13,793	12,743	11,483	10,698	9,939	9,694	8,681				Khmelnytskiy
Kirovohrad										9,181				9,178	9,392	8,967	9,755	10,076	10,538	10,916	10,531	10,578	11,029	10,562	10,576	9,456	8,859	7,845	7,077	6,356	6,048	5,533				Kirovohrad
Kyiv										13,672				15,080	16,016	16,460	17,383	18,378	20,195	20,616	19,737	20,083	20,966	20,511	20,900	20,205	19,027	16,998	15,236	14,283	14,205	12,632		10,820		Kyiv
Kyiv (city)										18,323				23,275	25,884	26,258	28,101	28,445	31,965	32,488	32,082	32,068	33,887	33,305	34,821	35,558	36,570	35,359	34,586	32,503	30,670	29,611		19,979		Kyiv (city)
Luhansk										16,169				17,507	17,856	17,877	19,833	20,326	22,259	21,671	20,969	21,320	21,743	20,531	11,442	5,340	6,485	5,973	5,652	5,031	4,013	3,356				Luhansk
Lviv	38,693	37,685	36,612	34,717	32,477	31,470	30,400	28,010	27,373	24,529	24,198	23,569	24,005	25,009	26,255	26,082	27,272	27,454	29,007	30,079	28,651	28,904	30,220	29,542	30,270	27,909	27,134	25,002	23,253	21,803	21,129	19,440		16,638		Lviv
Mykolayiv										10,413				11,118	11,059	10,928	11,736	12,363	13,378	13,093	12,831	13,029	13,515	13,043	13,076	11,533	10,781	10,073	9,141	7,966	7,633	7,029				Mykolayiv
Odesa										19,969				22,326	23,343	23,915	25,113	26,759	28,780	28,986	28,690	29,225	30,384	29,075	29,465	27,416	26,417	25,195	23,144	20,938	20,555	19,280		13,736		Odesa
Poltava										12,228				11,835	11,792	11,994	13,564	13,334	14,748	14,755	14,250	14,167	14,635	14,296	14,504	13,481	12,476	11,070	10,193	9,043	8,629	8,063				Poltava
Rivne										14,188				13,940	14,558	14,483	15,758	15,759	17,089	17,544	17,074	17,697	18,316	17,445	17,169	16,137	15,688	14,371	13,380	12,316	12,164	11,691		9,542		Rivne
Sevastopol (city)										2,551				3,279	3,681	3,641	3,840	3,994	4,170	4,257	4,184	4,252	4,584	4,463	4,881	5,410	5,402	4,956			4,225	4,234			3,707	Sevastopol (city)
Sumy										9,571				9,088	9,066	8,913	10,129	10,108	10,835	10,681	10,360	10,473	11,093	10,411	10,344	9,795	8,822	8,059	7,114	6,483	6,002	5,484				Sumy
Ternopil										11,197				10,476	11,094	11,035	11,623	11,431	12,388	12,404	11,872	11,964	12,202	11,807	11,717	10,776	9,974	9,289	8,545	7,896	7,846	7,275				Ternopil
Vinnytsya										15,859				15,048	15,525	15,174	16,287	16,711	17,914	18,053	17,508	17,894	18,339	17,437	17,547	16,427	15,316	14,142	12,769	11,878	11,486	10,529				Vinnytsya
Volyn										11,798				11,883	12,468	12,756	13,728	13,990	15,301	15,290	14,848	14,620	15,346	14,700	14,668	13,378	13,033	11,914	11,270	10,420	10,448	9,852				Volyn
Zakarpattya										13,894				14,747	15,472	15,750	16,530	16,833	18,292	18,219	18,301	18,460	18,968	18,490	18,377	16,788	16,000	14,552	13,883	13,016	13,503	12,631		9,450		Zakarpattya
Zaporizhzhya										13,880				15,301	16,091	15,862	17,241	17,591	18,901	18,409	18,018	18,198	18,882	18,134	18,713	16,579	15,664	14,155	12,708	11,543	10,523	9,571				Zaporizhzhya
Zhytomyr										12,669				12,607	13,265	12,904	13,654	14,252	14,641	15,108	14,678	15,154	15,486	15,001	15,115	13,725	12,982	11,645	10,612	9,619	9,151	8,544				Zhytomyr
UKRAINE TOTAL	657,202	630,813	596,785	539,506	507,204	492,861	467,211	442,581	419,238	389,208	385,126	376,478	390,688	408,591	427,259	426,085	460,368	472,657	510,588	512,526	497,689	502,595	520,704	503,656	465,893	411,783	397,039	363,987	335,874	308,817	293,457	271,983	190,393	176,981		UKRAINE TOTAL