Donetsk Oblast: population and official figures
Donetsk Oblast is a oblast of Ukraine, the largest of 27 by population. Donetsk Oblast had an estimated present population of 4,059,372 on 1 January 2022, 9.9% of Ukraine's total and the largest of 25 regions; the State Statistics Service has published no regional yearbook after this one because publication of statistics was restricted under martial law.
In depth
- Economy, jobs and prices in Donetsk Oblast: The average monthly nominal wage of employees in Donetsk Oblast was 14,853 hryvnias in 2021, 6.0% above the national average of 14,014 hryvnias and 2nd highest of 25 regions.
- Health in Donetsk Oblast: Donetsk Oblast had 5,342 doctors at the end of 2021, about 13 per 10,000 people, 2nd lowest of 25 regions (Ukraine about 35).
- Poverty and living standards in Donetsk Oblast: Police in Donetsk Oblast recorded 17,957 criminal offences in 2021, about 44 per 10,000 people, 2nd lowest of 25 regions.
- Government budget and revenue in Donetsk Oblast: The consolidated budget of Donetsk Oblast (the oblast budget plus its district and community budgets) received 15.8 billion hryvnias of revenue in 2025, 19.6% less than the 19.7 billion hryvnias of 2024 and 2.1% of the revenue of all regional and Kyiv budgets.
- Government and politics in Donetsk Oblast: Vadym Filashkin is head of the Donetsk Oblast State Administration, appointed by Presidential Decree No. 857/2023 of 27 December 2023.
How many districts are in Donetsk Oblast?
Donetsk Oblast covers 26,517 square kilometres and on 1 January 2022 was divided into 8 districts (raions) and 66 territorial communities (hromadas), with 52 cities and 1,115 villages.
Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copyHow many schools are in Donetsk Oblast?
Donetsk Oblast had 491 general secondary schools at the start of the 2021/22 school year, 72 fewer than in 2015/16.
Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copyHow many universities are in Donetsk Oblast?
Donetsk Oblast had 18 higher education institutions with 23,932 students in 2021/22, plus 10 professional pre-tertiary colleges with 10,214 students.
Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copyMore figures
- Between 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2022 the population of Donetsk Oblast fell by 4.8%, from 4,265,145 to 4,059,372 (Ukraine as a whole: -3.7%). Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copy
- Of the resident population of Donetsk Oblast on 1 January 2022, 11.4% were aged 0 to 15 and 31.5% were 60 or older (national figures 16.0% and 24.8%). Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copy
- Higher education students in Donetsk Oblast numbered about 59 per 10,000 people in 2021/22, the lowest of 25 regions. Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copy
Other oblasts of Ukraine
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 3,096,485
- Kyiv 2,952,301
- Kharkiv Oblast 2,598,961
- Lviv Oblast 2,478,133
- Odesa Oblast 2,351,392
- Luhansk Oblast 2,102,921
- Kyiv Oblast 1,795,079
- Zaporizhzhia Oblast 1,638,462
- Vinnytsia Oblast 1,509,515
- Poltava Oblast 1,352,283
- Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1,351,822
- Zakarpattia Oblast 1,244,476
- Khmelnytskyi Oblast 1,228,829
- Zhytomyr Oblast 1,179,032
- Cherkasy Oblast 1,160,744
- Rivne Oblast 1,141,784
- Mykolaiv Oblast 1,091,821
- Sumy Oblast 1,035,772
- Ternopil Oblast 1,021,713
- Volyn Oblast 1,021,356
- Kherson Oblast 1,001,598
- Chernihiv Oblast 959,315
- Kirovohrad Oblast 903,712
- Chernivtsi Oblast 890,457
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea
- Sevastopol
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Sources
- State Statistics Service of Ukraine: Statistical yearbook "Regions of Ukraine 2021", Part I: population, labour, education, incomes, health, housing and crime by region, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 e79c6e922ef0…)
- Central Election Commission of Ukraine: Local elections of 25 October 2020: elected deputies of local councils by region and type of council (summary), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 9880a12a9e2c…)
- 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 yearbook "Regions of Ukraine 2021", Part II: gross regional product, investment, foreign trade, prices and businesses by region, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 6540cc3b9b3a…)
- Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (Government portal): Heads of the oblast and Kyiv city state administrations, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 9595360920e7…)
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