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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(Conservative, state-subsidized), Kiev
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President for life? If Leonid Kuchma continues to have his way, the law will prove no obstacle to his wildest political ambition. Andrew Yurkovsky reviews the Ukrainian press.
It’s called Ukraine, but a more appropriate designation might be “the land that time forgot.” Since it gained independence a little more than 10 years ago, Ukraine has experienced nearly continuous political gridlock, reports Andrew Yurkovsky
Andrew Yurkovsky reviews Ukrainian press coverage of the upcoming elections there.
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