Geography

Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea,
between Poland and Russia

Area:
total area: 603,700 sq km
land area: 603,700 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Texas

Land boundaries: total 4,558 km ;
Belarus 891 km, Hungary 103 km,
Moldova 939 km, Poland 428 km,
Romania (southwest) 169 km,
Romania (west) 362 km, Russia 1,576 km,
Slovakia 90 km

Coastline: 2,782 km


People

Population: 51,867,828 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 21% (female 5,217,850; male 5,407,450)
15-64 years: 65% (female 17,563,924; male 16,334,299)
65 years and over: 14% (female 4,976,893; male 2,367,412)

Population growth rate: 0.04% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.31 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 12.67 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.71 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 20.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 70.11 years
male: 65.59 years
female: 74.87 years

Total fertility rate: 1.81 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: 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: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 98%
male: 100%
female: 97%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Ukraine

Type: republic

Capital: Kiev (Kyyiv)

Independence: 1 December 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: using 1978 pre-independence constitution;
new constitution currentlybeing drafted


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $189.2 billion

National product real growth rate: -19%

National product per capita: $3,650

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 54,380,000 kW
production: 182 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,200 kWh



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