Facts and figures

Ukraine – is one of the largest consumer markets in Europe

• 45 millions – the population

• 69% of the population lives in cities

• 63% – the economically active population

• 8% – unemployment rate

• 47% – expenses on food purchase and public services

• 85% - mobile communications users

• 30% regularly use Internet

Overview

Ukraine - is a country in Eastern Europe.

Area: 603,628 km² (the second largest country in Eastern Europe).

Political system: presidential-parliamentary republic.

Legislature: unicameral Parliament (Verkhovna Rada).

Major languages: Ukrainian (official), Russian

Currency: Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH). The hryvnia against the U.S. dollar - 7.97 hryvnia per U.S. $ 1 exchange rate against the euro - 11,28 hryvnia for one euro (at the beginning of August 2011)

Membership: UN (since 1947), WTO (2008), Council of Europe (1995) IMF (1992), CIS (1991), Guam (1997), WTO (2008)

Administrative and territorial division

The administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine is a three-level system:

first level - the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 24 regions and cities with special status;

the second level - cities of regional and republican subordination;

the third level - the district level cities, town type villages, small towns and villages.

The most populous areas in Ukraine are - Donetska, Dnipropetrovska, Kharkivska, Lvivska, Odesska and Luganska.

5 cities have the status of cities “millionaires”:

• Kiev
• Kharkov
• Odessa
• Dnepropetrovsk
• Donetsk

Among other major cities of Ukraine (more than 500 thousand people) are also Lviv (Western Region), Nikolaev (Southern Region), Krivoy Rog and Zaporozhye (Eastern Region).

Around all the cities “millionaires” and some of the big cities of Ukraine the agglomerations have been formed, which make about 37% of the population. There is a trend to an increasing of the urbanization.

Population

On June 1, 2011 the population of Ukraine amounted to 45.687 million 162 people, of whom 69% - urban population and 31% - rural. Over the past 5 years, the total number of Ukraine's population decreased by 2.8%, and the downward trend continues.

Age-gender structure of population of Ukraine.

According to the State Statistics Committee for 2011 46% of the population are men and 54% - women.

Age distribution:

The major ethnic groups: Ukrainians (77.8%), Russians (17.3%), Belarusians (0.6%), Moldovans (0.5%), Tatars (0.5%), Bulgarians (0.4 %), Hungarians (0.3%), Romanians (0.3%), Poles (0.3%), Jews (0.2%), other (1.8%) (according to population census of 2001.).

Characteristics of the households

In 2010 average Ukrainian household size is 2.59 people. Households with children under 18 years make 34%.

Distribution of households by the number of people:

The distribution of households by the number of children: