User:NiciaD/sandbox/Kiev

Demographics
According to the Kiev Department of Statistics, there were 1,748,505 residents in Kiev as of January 2018. In the most recent census, men accounted for 46.3%, and women for 53.7%.

Historical population
In 1647, the population of Kiev is estimated to be around 15,000 people. In just over a 100 year time span, this number increased to 42,000. Over time, the overall trend has been that of an increasing population, but the rate of increase has been inconsistent, and occasionally saw periods of population decrease. One extended period of population decrease was from 1989 to 2001, when the rate of natural decrease was approximately 1%. The census of 1979 states that the population of Kiev was 2,143,855. A problem that Kiev has encountered with its population is that of ageing - the average age of the residents of Kiev has been steadily rising. As of 2001, 25% of people in Kiev are over working age.

Migration
One of the main causes of fluctuation in population in Kiev is migration. There has been immigration to Kiev from within Ukraine, as well as from other countries, but there has also been substantial emigration leaving Kiev. Internally within the country of Ukraine the net rate of migration to Kiev is 5.2 people per 1000, while the net rate of international migration to Kiev is only 3.5 people per 1000. Kiev's net migration rate is substantially higher than Ukraine's overall estimated rate of migration, which is 0 people per 1000. This means that while Ukraine as a whole has had around the same number of people coming into the country as leaving it, Kiev has been gaining people through migration.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to people who had been living in Kiev who didn't identify as Ukrainian moving into other former Soviet states, which explains the lowered rate of population increase during these years. However, there wasn't a mass emigration into western European states that many scholars had predicted.

Ethnic composition
According to the 2001 census data, more than 130 nationalities and ethnic groups reside within the territory of Kiev. Ukrainians constitute the largest ethnic group in Kiev, and they account for 2,110,800 people or 82.2% of the population. This is higher than the percentage of ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine as a whole, where they make up 78.8% of the population. Russians comprise 337,300 (13.1%), Jews 17,900 (0.7%), Belarusians 16,500 (0.6%), Poles 6,900 (0.3%), Armenians 4,900 (0.2%), Azerbaijanis 2,600 (0.1%), Tatars 2,500 (0.1%), Georgians 2,400 (0.1%), Moldovans 1,900 (0.1%). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a rise in Ukrainian nationalism, although this became a complicated matter due to the uncertain distinction between what makes someone Russian or Ukrainian. This eventually meant that those who identified as ethnic Russians who lived in Kiev were marginalised due to their heritage, and it took a long time for this problem to begin to resolve.

According to the census of 1897, of Kiev's approximately 240,000 people, approximately 56% of the population spoke Russian, 23% spoke Ukrainian, 13% spoke Yiddish, 7% spoke Polish and 1% spoke Belarusian. Today both Ukrainian and Russian are commonly spoken in the city; approximately 75% of Kiev's population responded "Ukrainian" to the 2001 census question on their native language, roughly 25% responded "Russian". According to a 2006 survey, Ukrainian is used at home by 23% of Kievans, 52% use Russian, and 24% switch between both. In the 2003 sociological survey, when the question 'What language do you use in everyday life?' was asked, 52% said 'mostly Russian', 32% 'both Russian and Ukrainian in equal measure', 14% 'mostly Ukrainian', and 4.3% 'exclusively Ukrainian'. The aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union had an effect on what language people say they consider their main language, due to the tension between Russian and Ukrainian. Although many Kievans claim Ukrainian as their native language, other surveys show that a distinctly smaller number speak Ukrainian the majority of the time, with very few speaking the language exclusively.

The city's Muslim population is mostly comprised of Tatars, along with some Caucasians and people from the former Soviet Union. Kiev is considered to be the center of the Islamic community in Ukraine. The main mosque in the city, the Ar-Rahma Mosque, which was completed in 2011 after 5 years of construction.

The Jewish population in Kiev is first mentioned in a 10th century letter. In imperial Kiev, Jewish residents were not fully accepted as a part of the society. At the beginning of the 1880's, the Russian state introduced new policies that continued the repression of Kievan Jews. They experienced several pogroms, including the Babi Yar massacre during the Holocaust, and in 1919, the Jews of Kiev harboured Jewish refugees from pogroms across Ukraine. Today there are approximately 20,000 ethnic Jews in Kiev, and the city has the largest Jewish community in Ukraine within a single city. In Kiev, there are two major synagogues: the Great Choral Synagogue and the Brodsky Choral Synagogue.

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3/23/2018 Evaluation by MusaMinh

 * Points: 45/40
 * Grade: 112.5%

Spelling/Grammar
Perfect spelling and grammar!

Language
Perfect encyclopedic tone and diction

Organization
Perfect paragraphs and headers I think that I would have kept the part about working age migrants offsetting the ageing population in the historical populating section as I think it is relevant to topic and provides a fitting transition into your next section. However, that would just be a personal choice and I don't think that your poor by any means.

Coding
Perfect

Validity
Solid information

Completion
Complete I'm really disappointed that you weren't able to find an updated bread-based population estimate like in the original article. (Sarcasm)

Relevance
No irrelevant content I find the disparity between the claimed language use/ethnicity and actual language use really interesting. I think it would be cool to flesh that out more, possibly with its own section, though I recognize that that would go beyond the assignment requirements and is probably enough of a subject for its own article. I think you had the optimal amount of information to stay relevant but complete.