:Ukraine People
Population:
51,940,426 (July 1992), growth rate 0.2% (1992)
Birth rate:
14 births/1,000 population (1992)
Death rate:
12 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
Net migration rate:
1 migrant/1,000 population (1992)
Infant mortality rate:
22 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
Life expectancy at birth:
65 years male, 75 years female (1992)
Total fertility rate:
2.0 children born/woman (1992)
Nationality:
noun - Ukrainian(s); adjective - Ukrainian
Ethnic divisions:
Ukrainian 73%, Russian 22%, Jewish 1%, other 4%
Religions:
Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox, Ukrainian
Catholic (Uniate), Protestant, Jewish
Languages:
Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish
Literacy:
NA%
Labor force:
25,277,000; industry and construction 41%, agriculture and forestry 19%,
health, education, and culture 18%, trade and distribution 8%, transport and
communication 7%, other 7% (1990)
Organized labor:
NA
:Ukraine Government
Long-form name:
none
Type:
republic
Capital:
Kiev (Kyyiv)
Administrative divisions:
24 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast') and 1 autonomous republic*
(avtomnaya respublika); Chernigov, Cherkassy, Chernovtsy, Dnepropetrovsk,
Donetsk, Ivano-Frankovsk, Khar'kov, Kherson, Khmel'nitskiy, Kiev,
Kirovograd, Krym (Simferopol')*, Lugansk, L'vov, Nikolayev, Odessa, Poltava,
Rovno, Sumy, Ternopol', Vinnitsa, Volyn' (Lutsk), Zakarpat (Uzhgorod),
Zaporozh'ye, Zhitomir; note - an oblast usually has the same name as its
administrative center (exceptions have the administrative center name
following in parentheses)
Independence:
24 August 1991; 1 December 1991 de facto from USSR; note - formerly the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union
Constitution:
currently being drafted
Legal system:
based on civil law system; no judicial review of legislative acts
National holiday:
Independence Day, 24 August (1991)
Executive branch:
president, prime minister
Legislative branch:
unicameral Supreme Council
Judicial branch:
being organized
Leaders:
Chief of State:
President Leonid M. KRAVCHUK (since 5 December 1991)
Head of Government:
Prime Minister Vitol'd FOKIN (since 14 November 1991); two First Deputy
Prime Ministers: Valentyn SYMONENKO and Konstantyn MASYK (since 21 May
1991); two Deputy Prime Ministers: Oleh SLEPICHEV and Viktor SYTNYK (since
21 May 1991)
Political parties and leaders:
Ukrainian Republican Party, Levko LUKYANENKO, chairman; Green Party, Yuriy
SHCHERBAK, chairman; Social Democratic Party, Andriy NOSENKO, chairman;
Ukrainian Democratic Party, Yuriy BADZO, chairman; Democratic Rebirth Party,
Oleksandr Volodymyr GRINEV, Oleksandr FILENKO, YEMETS, Miroslav POPOVICH,
Sergei LYLYK, Oleksandr BAZYLYUK, Valeriy KHMELKO, leaders; People's Party
of Ukraine, Leopold TABURYANSKIY, chairman; Peasant Democratic Party, Jerhiy
PLACHYNDA, chairman; Ukrainian Socialist Party, Oleksandr MOROZ, chairman
Suffrage:
universal at age 18
Elections:
President:
last held 1 December 1991 (next to be held NA 1996); results - Leonid
KRAVCHUK 61.59%, Vyacheslav CHERNOVIL 23.27%, Levko LUKYANENKO 4.49%,
Volodymyr GRINEV 4.17%, Iher YUKHNOVSKY 1.74%, Leopold TABURYANSKIY 0.57%
Supreme Council:
last held 4 March 1990 (next scheduled for 1995, may be held earlier in late
1992 or 1993); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (NA total)
number of seats by party NA
:Ukraine Government
Communists:
Communist Party of Ukraine was banned by decree of the Supreme Council on 30
August 1991
Other political or pressure groups:
Ukraninan People's Movement for Restructuring (RUKH)
Member of:
CIS, CSCE, CE, ECE, IAEA, IMF, INMARSAT, IOC, ITU, NACC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO
Diplomatic representation:
Ambassador Oleh H. BILORUS; Embassy at 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 711,
Washington, DC 20036; telephone (202) 296-6960
US:
Ambassador Roman POPADIUK; Embassy at ;10 Vul. Yuriy Kotsubinskoho, Kiev
(mailing address is APO AE 09862); telephone (044) 244-7349; FAX (044)
244-7350
Flag:
two horizontal bars of equal size: azure (sky blue) top half, golden yellow
bottom half (represents grainfields under a blue sky)
:Ukraine Economy
Overview:
Because of its size, geographic location, Slavic population, and rich
resources, the loss of Ukraine was the final and most bitter blow to the
Soviet leaders wishing to preserve some semblance of the old political,
military, and economic power of the USSR. After Russia, the Ukrainian
republic was far and away the most important economic component of the
former Soviet Union producing more than three times the output of the
next-ranking republic. Its fertile black soil generated more than one fourth
of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms provided substantial quantities
of meat, milk, grain and vegetables to other republics. Likewise, its
well-developed and diversified heavy industry supplied equipment and raw
materials to industrial and mining sites in other regions of the USSR. In
early 1992 the continued wholesale disruption of economic ties and the lack
of an institutional structure necessary to formulate and implement economic
reforms preclude a near-term recovery of output.
GDP:
$NA, per capita $NA; real growth rate -10% (1991 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
83% (1991 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
not finalized as of May 1992
Exports:
$13.5 billion (1990)
commodities:
coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, chemicals, machinery
and transport equipment, grain, meat
partners:
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan
Imports:
$16.7 billion (1990)
commodities:
machinery and parts, transportation equipment, chemicals, textiles
partners:
none
*** No entry for this item ***
External debt:
$10.4 billion (end of 1991 est.)
Industrial production:
growth rate -4.5% (1991)
Electricity:
NA kW capacity; 298,000 million kWh produced, 5,758 kWh per capita (1990)
Industries:
coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport
equipment, chemicals, food-processing
Agriculture:
grain, vegetables, meat, milk
Illicit drugs:
illicit producer of cannabis and opium; mostly for domestic consumption;
status of government eradication programs unknown; used as transshipment
points for illicit drugs to Western Europe
Economic aid:
$NA
:Ukraine Economy
Currency:
as of August 1992 using ruble and Ukrainian coupons as legal tender; Ukraine
plans to withdraw the ruble from circulation and convert to a coupon-based
economy on 1 October 1992; Ukrainian officials claim this will be an interim
move toward introducing a Ukrainian currency - the hryvnya - possibly as
early as January 1993
Exchange rates:
NA
Fiscal year:
calendar year