Zaporozhye: population and official figures

In depth

Government budget and revenue in Zaporozhye: The Zaporizhzhia city community budget took in 12.5 billion hryvnias in 2025, compared with 10.4 billion hryvnias in 2024 (+19.8%), the fastest growth of 9 among Ukraine's largest cities.

What is the population of Zaporizhzhia?

Zaporizhzhia had an estimated present population of 710,052 on 1 January 2022, 43.3% of the population of Zaporizhzhia Oblast and 7th largest of 13 cities with pages on this site.

Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copy

Who runs Zaporozhye?

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.

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Cities of a similar size in Ukraine

Kyiv 2,910,994
Kharkiv 1,401,558
Odessa 992,874
Dnipro 958,377
Donets'k 892,980
Lviv 710,606
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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