Luhansk Oblast: population and official figures
Luhansk Oblast is a oblast of Ukraine, number 7 of 27 by population. Luhansk Oblast had an estimated present population of 2,102,921 on 1 January 2022, 5.1% of Ukraine's total and 7th 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 Luhansk Oblast: The average monthly nominal wage of employees in Luhansk Oblast was 12,176 hryvnias in 2021, 13.1% below the national average of 14,014 hryvnias and 12th lowest of 25 regions.
- Health in Luhansk Oblast: Luhansk Oblast had 1,847 doctors at the end of 2021, about 9 per 10,000 people, the lowest of 25 regions (Ukraine about 35).
- Poverty and living standards in Luhansk Oblast: Police in Luhansk Oblast recorded 6,901 criminal offences in 2021, about 33 per 10,000 people, the lowest of 25 regions.
- Government budget and revenue in Luhansk Oblast: The consolidated budget of Luhansk Oblast (the oblast budget plus its district and community budgets) received 3.7 billion hryvnias of revenue in 2025, 30.0% less than the 5.3 billion hryvnias of 2024 and 0.5% of the revenue of all regional and Kyiv budgets.
- Government and politics in Luhansk Oblast: Oleksii Kharchenko is head of the Luhansk Oblast State Administration, appointed by Presidential Decree No. 244/2025 of 17 April 2025.
How many districts are in Luhansk Oblast?
Luhansk Oblast covers 26,683 square kilometres and on 1 January 2022 was divided into 8 districts (raions) and 37 territorial communities (hromadas), with 37 cities and 780 villages.
Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copyHow many schools are in Luhansk Oblast?
Luhansk Oblast had 254 general secondary schools at the start of the 2021/22 school year, 54 fewer than in 2015/16.
Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copyHow many universities are in Luhansk Oblast?
Luhansk Oblast had 7 higher education institutions with 13,233 students in 2021/22, plus 6 professional pre-tertiary colleges with 4,251 students.
Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copyMore figures
- Between 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2022 the population of Luhansk Oblast fell by 4.6%, from 2,205,389 to 2,102,921 (Ukraine as a whole: -3.7%). Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copy
- Of the resident population of Luhansk Oblast on 1 January 2022, 9.9% were aged 0 to 15 and 33.0% were 60 or older (national figures 16.0% and 24.8%). Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copy
- Higher education students in Luhansk Oblast numbered about 63 per 10,000 people in 2021/22, 2nd lowest of 25 regions. Source: State Statistics Service of Ukraine · saved copy
Other oblasts of Ukraine
- Donetsk Oblast 4,059,372
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 3,096,485
- Kyiv 2,952,301
- Kharkiv Oblast 2,598,961
- Lviv Oblast 2,478,133
- Odesa Oblast 2,351,392
- 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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