The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three.

[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 59,576 (2020 est.

)[3] Dunaivtsi Raion was a part of Podolia.

It was a large raion and ranked as the 5th among the largest with respect to the total area (1 182 km2 corresponding to 5.7% of the total area of Khmelnytskyi Oblast).

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of four hromadas:[4] 1 city (Dunaivtsi), 2 urban-type settlements (Dunaivtsi and Smotrych) and 83 villages were located in Dunaivtsi Raion.