Odessa: population and official figures
In depth
- Government budget and revenue in Odessa: The Odesa city community budget took in 16.2 billion hryvnias in 2025, compared with 14.3 billion hryvnias in 2024 (+12.9%), 4th slowest growth of 9 among Ukraine's largest cities.
What is the population of Odesa?
Odesa had an estimated present population of 1,010,537 on 1 January 2022, 43.0% of the population of Odesa Oblast and 3rd largest of 13 cities with pages on this site.
Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copyWho runs Odessa?
In Ukraine, cities and towns are run by oblasts: Oblast council directly elected; executive power held by an oblast state administration whose head is appointed by the President (under martial law: oblast military administration). The council approves budgets and programmes; the appointed administration runs state functions.
How local power works in Ukraine
Cities of a similar size in Ukraine
- Kyiv 2,910,994
- Kharkiv 1,401,558
- Dnipro 958,377
- Donets'k 892,980
- Lviv 710,606
- Zaporozhye 706,116
- Krivoy Rog 602,390
- Nikolaev 465,516
- Mariupol 422,286
- Lugansk 394,202
- Vinnitsa 367,901
- Makijivka 337,277
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Sources
- Ministry of Finance of Ukraine: Open Budget public API (localBudgetData): revenue of the consolidated budgets of each oblast, Kyiv and the largest city communities in 2024 and 2025, and their 2025 spending plans by function (saved API responses, one CSV per budget and query), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 8a856cffe239…)
- State Statistics Service of Ukraine: Statistical collection "Number of Present Population of Ukraine as of 1 January 2022" (regions, districts, communities and cities), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 33295ced9292…)
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