Ukraine 
Facts
Population:
48,760,474 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
17.3% (male 4,310,158; female 4,127,677)
15-64 years:
68.57% (male 15,965,079; female 17,468,035)
65 years and over:
14.13% (male 2,275,004; female 4,614,521) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.78% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
9.31 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
16.43 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.63 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.91 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.49 male(s)/female
total population:
0.86 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
21.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
66.15 years
male:
60.62 years
female:
71.96 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.29 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.96% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
240,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
4,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Ukrainian(s)
adjective:
Ukrainian
Ethnic groups:
Ukrainian 73%, Russian 22%, Jewish 1%, other 4%
Religions:
Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate, Ukrainian Orthodox - Kiev Patriarchate, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic (Uniate), Protestant, Jewish
Languages:
Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
98%
male:
100%
female:
97% (1989 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $189.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
6% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,850 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
12%
industry:
26%
services:
62% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:
50% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.9%
highest 10%:
26.4% (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
25.8% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
22.8 million (yearend 1997)
Labor force - by occupation:
industry 32%, agriculture 24%, services 44% (1996)
Unemployment rate:
4.3% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers (December 1999)
Budget:
revenues:
$8.3 billion
expenditures:
$8.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)
Industries:
coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food processing (especially sugar)
Industrial production growth rate:
12.9% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
157.823 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
47.67%
hydro:
9.65%
nuclear:
42.67%
other:
0.01% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
146.675 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
2.3 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
2.2 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables; beef, milk
Exports:
$14.6 billion (2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
ferrous and nonferrous metals, fuel and petroleum products, machinery and transport equipment, food products
Exports - partners:
Russia 24%, Europe 30%, US 5% (2000 est.)
Imports:
$15 billion (2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
energy, machinery and parts, transportation equipment, chemicals
Imports - partners:
Russia 42%, Europe 29%, US 3% (2000 est.)
Debt - external:
$10.3 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
$637.7 million (1995); IMF Extended Funds Facility $2.2 billion (1998)
Currency:
hryvnia (UAH)
Currency code:
UAH
Exchange rates:
hryvnia per US dollar - 5.4331 (January 2001), 5.4402 (2000), 4.1304 (1999), 2.4495 (1998), 1.8617 (1997), 1.8295 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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With Leonid Kuchma beginning his second five-year term as president of Ukraine, a battle is raging in his administration between ¡°romantic Westernizers and [pro-Russian] realistic pragmatists,¡¯¡¯ as Viktor Timoshenko refers to them in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Ukraine's nuclear-power plants, which produce 43 percent of the country's electricity, are in desperate need of repairs, modernization, and fuel, but don't have the funds.
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