| Country Information |  President: Viktor Yushchenko (2005)
Prime Minister: Viktor Yanykovych (2005)
Area: 233,089 sq mi (603,700 sq km)
Monetary unit: Hryvna
Population (2005 est.): 47,425,336
- growth rate: -0.6%;
- birth rate: 10.5/1000;
- infant mortality rate: 20.3/1000;
- life expectancy: 66.8;
- density per sq mi: 203
Capital (2003 est.): Kyiv (Kiev), 3,296,100 (metro. area), 2,588,400 (city proper)
Other large cities:
- Kharkiv, 1,435,200;
- Odessa, 1,022,300;
- Donetske, 984,900;
- Lvov, 700,100
| Language:
- Ukrainian,
- Russian,
- Romanian,
- Polish,
- Hungarian | Ethnicity/race:
- Ukrainian 77.8%,
- Russian 17.3%,
- Belorussian 0.6%,
- Moldovan 0.5%,
- Crimean Tatar 0.5%,
- Bulgarian 0.4%,
- Hungarian 0.3%,
- Romanian 0.3%,
- Polish 0.3%,
- Jewish 0.2%,
- other 1.8% (2001) |
Religions:
- Ukrainian Orthodox (Moscow Patriarchate, Kiev Patriarchate),
- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox,
- Ukrainian Catholic (Uniate),
- Protestant,
- Jewish |
Literacy rate: 100% (2003 est.)
Economic summary:
- GDP/PPP (2004 est.): $299.1 billion; per capita $6,300.
- Real growth rate: 12%.
- Inflation: 12%.
- Unemployment: 3.5% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers.
- Arable land: 56%.
- Agriculture: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables; beef, milk.
- Labor force: 21.11 million; industry 32%, agriculture 24%, services 44% (1996).
- Industries: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food processing (especially sugar).
- Natural resources: iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land.
- Exports: $23.58 billion (2003 est.): ferrous and nonferrous metals, fuel and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, food products.
- Imports: $23.58 billion (2003 est.): energy, machinery and equipment, chemicals.
- Major trading partners: Russia, Italy, Turkey, Germany, China, Turkmenistan, Poland.
Communications:
- Telephones: main lines in use: 9.45 million (April 1999); mobile cellular: 236,000 (1998).
- Radio broadcast stations: AM 134, FM 289, shortwave 4 (1998).
- Radios: 45.05 million (1997).
- Television broadcast stations: at least 33 (plus 21 repeater stations that relay broadcasts from Russia) (1997).
 - Televisions: 18.05 million (1997).
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 260 (2001).
- Internet users: 750,000 (2001).
Transportation:
- Railways: total: 22,473 km (2002).
- Highways: total: 169,491 km; paved: 163,898 km; unpaved: 5,593 km (2000).
- Waterways: 4,499 km (1990).
- Ports and harbors: Berdyans'k, Feodosiya, Illichivs'k, Izmayil, Kerch, Kherson, Kiev (Kyyiv), Kiliya, Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Reni, Sevastopol', Yalta, Yuzhnyy.
- Airports: 790 (2002).
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