Ukraine 
Facts
Population: 46,299,862 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 14% (male 3,334,428/female 3,163,378)
15-64 years: 69.6% (male 15,465,544/female 16,769,495)
65 years and over: 16.3% (male 2,564,512/female 5,002,505) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: -0.675% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 9.45 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 16.07 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.054 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.922 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.513 male(s)/female
total population: 0.857 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 9.5 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 11.75 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 7.11 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 67.88 years
male: 62.16 years
female: 73.96 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.24 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.4% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 360,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 20,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Ukrainian(s)
adjective: Ukrainian.
Ethnic groups: Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 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 census).
Religions: Ukrainian Orthodox - Kyiv Patriarchate 19%, Orthodox (no particular jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate 9%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic 6%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox 1.7%, Protestant, Jewish, none 38% (2004 est.).
Languages: Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other 9% (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.4%
male: 99.7%
female: 99.2% (2001 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $364.3 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 7.1% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $7,800 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 17.5%
industry: 42.7%
services: 39.8% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 22.3 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 25%
industry: 20%
services: 55% (1996).
Population below poverty line: 29% (2003 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.4%
highest 10%: 25.7% (2006).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 11.6% (2006).
Unemployment rate: 2.7% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers; the International Labor Organization calculates that Ukraine's real unemployment level is 6.7% (2006).
Budget: revenues: $33.41 billion
expenditures: $35.6 billion; note - this is the planned, consolidated budget (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables; beef, milk.
Industries: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food processing (especially sugar).
Industrial production growth rate: 6.3% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 192.1 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - consumption: 181.9 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - exports: 10.44 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - imports: 20 billion kWh (2006).
Exports: $38.88 billion (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: ferrous and nonferrous metals, fuel and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, food products.
Exports - partners: Russia 22.1%, Turkey 6%, Italy 5.6% (2005).
Imports: $44.11 billion (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: energy, machinery and equipment, chemicals.
Imports - partners: Russia 35.5%, Germany 9.4%, Turkmenistan 7.4%, China 5% (2005).
Debt - external: $48.87 billion (30 October 2006).
Economic aid - recipient: $463 million (1995); IMF Extended Funds Facility $2.2 billion (2005).
Currency (code): hryvnia (UAH).
Exchange rates: hryvnia per US dollar - 5.05 (2006), 5.1247 (2005), 5.3192 (2004), 5.3327 (2003), 5.3266 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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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