Population:
43,952,299
(July 2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
32
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 est.)
Languages:
Ukrainian (official) 67.5%, Russian (regional language) 29.6%, other (includes small Crimean Tatar-, Moldovan/Romanian-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) 2.9% (2001 est.)
note: in February 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that 2012 language legislation entitling a language spoken by at least 10% of an oblast's population to be given the status of "regional language" - allowing for its use in courts, schools, and other government institutions - was unconstitutional, thus making the law invalid; Ukrainian remains the country's only official nationwide language
Religions:
Orthodox (includes Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox (UAOC), Ukrainian Orthodox - Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)), Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish
(2013 est.)
note: Ukraine's population is overwhelmingly Christian; the vast majority - up to two-thirds - identify themselves as Orthodox, but many do not specify a particular branch; the UOC-KP and the UOC-MP each represent less than a quarter of the country's population, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church accounts for 8-10%, and the UAOC accounts for 1-2%; Muslim and Jewish adherents each compose less than 1% of the total population
Age structure:
0-14 years:
15.95%
(male 3,609,386 /female 3,400,349)
15-24 years:
9.57%
(male 2,156,338 /female 2,047,821)
25-54 years:
44.03%
(male 9,522,108 /female 9,831,924)
55-64 years:
13.96%
(male 2,638,173 /female 3,499,718)
65 years and over:
16.49%
(male 2,433,718 /female 4,812,764)
(2018 est.)
Dependency ratios:
total dependency ratio:
44.8
(2015 est.)
youth dependency ratio:
21.8
(2015 est.)
elderly dependency ratio:
23
(2015 est.)
potential support ratio:
4.3
(2015 est.)
note: data include Crimea
Median age:
total:
40.8 years
male:
37.7 years
female:
43.9 years
(2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
47
Population growth rate:
0.04%
(2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
187
Birth rate:
10.1 births/1,000 population
(2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
190
Death rate:
14.3 deaths/1,000 population
(2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
6
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population
(2017 est.)
country comparison to the world:
100
Population distribution:
densest settlement in the eastern (Donbas) and western regions; noteable concentrations in and around major urban areas of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donets'k, Dnipropetrovs'k, and Odesa
Urbanization:
urban population:
69.4% of total population
(2018)
rate of urbanization:
-0.33% annual rate of change
(2015-20 est.)
Major urban areas - population:
2.957 million KYIV (capital), 1.436 million Kharkiv, 1.01 million Odesa, 969,000 Dnipropetrovsk, 919,000 Donetsk
(2018)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
(2017 est.)
0-14 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
(2017 est.)
15-24 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
(2017 est.)
25-54 years:
0.96 male(s)/female
(2017 est.)
55-64 years:
0.75 male(s)/female
(2017 est.)
65 years and over:
0.5 male(s)/female
(2017 est.)
total population:
0.86 male(s)/female
(2017 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth:
24.9 years
(2014 est.)
Maternal mortality rate:
24 deaths/100,000 live births
(2015 est.)
country comparison to the world:
125
Infant mortality rate:
total:
7.7 deaths/1,000 live births
(2018 est.)
male:
8.6 deaths/1,000 live births
(2018 est.)
female:
6.7 deaths/1,000 live births
(2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
157
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
72.4 years
(2018 est.)
male:
67.7 years
(2018 est.)
female:
77.4 years
(2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
148
Total fertility rate:
1.55 children born/woman
(2018 est.)
country comparison to the world:
190
Contraceptive prevalence rate:
65.4%
(2012)
Health expenditures:
7.1% of GDP
(2014)
country comparison to the world:
80
Physicians density:
3 physicians/1,000 population
(2014)
Hospital bed density:
8.8 beds/1,000 population
(2013)
Drinking water source:
improved:
urban:
95.5% of population
rural:
97.8% of population
total:
96.2% of population
unimproved:
urban:
4.5% of population
rural:
2.2% of population
total:
3.8% of population
(2015 est.)
Sanitation facility access:
improved:
urban:
97.4% of population
(2015 est.)
rural:
92.6% of population
(2015 est.)
total:
95.9% of population
(2015 est.)
unimproved:
urban:
2.6% of population
(2015 est.)
rural:
7.4% of population
(2015 est.)
total:
4.1% of population
(2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.9%
(2017 est.)
country comparison to the world:
49
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
240,000
(2017 est.)
country comparison to the world:
24
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
9,000
(2017 est.)
country comparison to the world:
21
Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
24.1%
(2016)
country comparison to the world:
61
Education expenditures:
5.9% of GDP
(2014)
country comparison to the world:
41
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
(2015 est.)
total population:
99.8%
(2015 est.)
male:
99.8%
(2015 est.)
female:
99.7%
(2015 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total:
15 years
(2014)
male:
15 years
(2014)
female:
16 years
(2014)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
total:
23%
(2016 est.)
male:
24%
(2016 est.)
female:
21.5%
(2016 est.)
country comparison to the world:
53
Article written for World Trade Press by Content Scrape CIA FactBook 2019-03-08 RLH.
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