World population/Ukraine
Europe
Population of Ukraine
39,535,851
Growing by -0.01 people every second
#40
world rank
0.48%
of world population
-0.74%
yearly change
-290,641
people this year
242,008
births a year
527,215
deaths a year
How the figure for Ukraine is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Ukraine at 39,535,851 on 1 July 2026, and projects 39,245,210 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people lost every second.
That places Ukraine at number 40 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.48 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 242,008 births and 527,215 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.