Ukraine

Official Name:

Ukraine

Area:

603.700 km ²

Population (2007):

46.299.862 inhabitants

Coastline:

2.782 km

Capital:

Kyiv (Kiev)

Maritime Ports and terminals:

Feodosiya, Kerch, Kherson, Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Reni, Yuzhnyy

Maritime claims:

• Territorial sea: 12 nm
• Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
• Continental shelf: 200-m or to the depth of exploitation

Political divisions:

24 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonomna respublika), and 2 municipalities (mista, singular - misto) with oblast status**; Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Crimea or Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol'), Dnipropetrovs'k, Donets'k, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv**, Kyiv, Luhans'k, L'viv, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sevastopol'**, Sumy, Ternopil', Vinnytsya, Volyn' (Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr Note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)

Language(s):

Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other 9% (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities)

National holiday:

Independence Day, 24 August (1991); Note - 22 January 1918, the day Ukraine first declared its independence (from Soviet Russia) and the day the short-lived Western and Central Ukrainian republics united (1919), is now celebrated as Unity Day

Nationality:

Ukrainian(s)

Official time:

UTC 2. Daylight saving time: 1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October

Member of:

Australia Group, BSEC, CBSS (observer), CE, CEI, CIS, EAEC (observer), EAPC, EBRD, FAO, GCTU, GUAM, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MONUC, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMEE, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOVIC, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer), ZC

Internet country code:

.ua

Economic Profile

Currency:

Hryvnia (UAH)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

USD7.800 (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):

(2006 est.) USD 82.360.000.000

PIB (Real growth rate:

7,1% (2006 est.)

GDP (Composition by sector): (2006 est.)

• Agriculture: 17,5%
• Industry: 42,7%
• Services: 39,8%

Labor force:

22.300.000 (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation (1996):

• Agriculture 25%
• Industry: 20%
• Services 55%

Unemployment rate:

2,7% (2006 est.)

Inflation rate (Consumer prices):

11,6% (2006 est)

Investment (Gross Fixed):

22,9% del PIB (2006 est.)

Budget:

• Revenues: USD33.410.000.000
• Expenditures: USD35.600.000.000

Public debt:

12,7% of GDP (2006 est.)

Current account balance:

USD -1.933.000.000 (2006 est.)

Exports:

USD 38.880.000.000 FOB (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:

USD 44.110.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)

Imports - Commodities:

Energy, machinery and equipment, chemicals

Imports - partners:

Russia 35,5%, Germany 9,4%, Turkmenistan 7,4%, China 5% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

USD 22.260.000.000 (2006 est.)

Debt - external:

USD 48.870.000.000 (2006)