Belarusian language in Ukraine
According to the Ukrainian census of 2001, the Belarusian language is native to 56,249 people in the country, including 19.8% of ethnic Belarusians. The largest number of Belarusian-speakers live in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Crimea and Donetsk Oblast. The regions with the largest percentages of Belarusian speakers out of their total population are Crimea, Chernihiv Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Overall
In Ukraine overall, Belarusian speakers over time:
| 1989 | 2001 |
| Total number | 161,404 | 56,249 |
| % | 0.31% | 0.12% |
Among ethnic Belarusians
According to censuses, the native languages of ethnic Belarusians in Ukraine were:
| Language | 1979 | 1989 | 2001 |
| Russian | 56.0% | 55.2% | 62.5% |
| Belarusian | 35.1% | 35.5% | 19.8% |
| Ukrainian | 8.9% | 9.3% | 17.5% |
| Other | 0.02% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
Among Belarusians of Ukraine, their fluency in the Belarusian language dropped from 48.5% to 31.7% from 1989 to 2001.
Significant Belarusian-speaking settlements
This chart lists settlements in which at least 10% of the population spoke Belarusian as their mother tongue during the 2001 census. Italics indicate settlements with a population of less than 25 people.