You're reading: Ukraine’s population down to 45.64 million people in 2011

The population of Ukraine was 45.644 million people as of Dec. 1, 2011, reads a posting on the Web site of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.

The population of the country dropped by some 11,000 people over one month, from 45.655 million people as of Nov. 1, 2011.

According to the statistics service, about 45.78 million people lived in Ukraine as of Jan. 1, 2011.

The urban population of Ukraine was 31.4 million people as of Dec. 1, 2011.

According to the last census, which was held on Dec. 5, 2011, the country’s population was 48.457 million people.