Source
Central bank

National Bank of Ukraine

International Reserves

USD 20.8 billion (2018)

International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

USD 29.14 billion (2020)
World Bank, last updated 12/16/2021

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

USD 181.04 billion (2021 estimate)
IMF - World Economic Outlook, October 2021

Real GDP growth
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021*
2.4% 3.5% 3.2% –4% 3.5%

*Estimate

GDP per capita - current prices

USD 4,384.24 (2021 estimate)
IMF - World Economic Outlook, October 2021

GDP per capita - PPP

USD 14,145.87 (2021 estimate)
IMF - World Economic Outlook, October 2021

GDP (PPP) - share of world total

0.40% (2021 estimate)
IMF - World Economic Outlook, October 2021

 
 
Source
GDP - composition by sector
  • agriculture: 9.3% 
  • industry: 20.9% 
  • services: 55.6%

(2018 estimate)

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D; (% of GDP)

N/A

 

Inflation
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021*
14.4% 10.9% 7.9% 2.7% 9.5%

*Estimate

Unemployment rate
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021*
9.7% 9% 8.5% 9.2% 9.7%

*Estimate

Household saving rates

N/A

Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP)
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021*
71.6% 60.4% 50.5% 60.8% 54.4%

*Estimate

Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP)
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021*
1.5% 1.1% 1.1% –3.1% –1.3%

*Estimate

Government bond ratings

Standard & Poor's: B

Moody's: B3

Standard & Poor's / Moody's (January 2022)

Market value of publicly traded shares

USD 4.4 billion (2018)
World Bank / Market capitalization

 

Largest companies

N/A

 
 
Source
Current account balance

USD -1.2 billion (2021 estimate)
IMF - World Economic Outlook, October 2021

Current account balance by percentage of GDP

-0.69% (2021 estimate)
IMF - World Economic Outlook, October 2021

Exports as percent of GDP (Exports of goods and services)

39.1% (2020)
World Bank - World Development Indicators (updated Feb 2022)

Shares in world total merchandising export

0.28% (2020)

Shares in world total commercial services export

0.3% (2020)

Total exports

USD 60.7 billion (2020 estimate)

Export commodities

Corn, sunflower seed oils, iron and iron products, wheat, insulated wiring, rapeseed (2019)

Total imports

USD 62.8 billion (2020 estimate)

 
 
Source
Import commodities

Refined petroleum, cars, packaged medicines, coal, natural gas (2019)

Exports - major partners

Russia 9%, China 8%, Germany 6%, Poland 6%, Italy 5%, Turkey 5% (2019)

Imports - major partners

China 13%, Russia 12%, Germany 10%, Poland 9%, Belarus 7% (2019)

FDI inflows
2019 2020 2021
USD 4.5 billion USD 5.9 billion USD –868 million
FDI outflows
2019 2020 2021
USD -5 million USD 648 billion USD 82 million
Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser
2018 2019 2020 2021
USD 162 million USD 105 million USD 29 million USD –65 million
Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2014

N/A

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Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2015

N/A

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Best countries for doing business

Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.

Overall ranking:

64 out of 190 countries

​Subcategories:

Starting a Business: 61 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 20 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 128 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 61 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 37 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 45 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 65 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 74 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 63 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 146 out of 190 countries
World Bank - Doing Business 2020

Global competitiveness ranking

25 out of 141 (2019)
World Economic Forum / Global competitiveness ranking

Index of Economic Freedom

Ranking: 130 / Score: 54.1 (Mostly Unfree)
The Heritage Foundation - 2022 Index of Economic Freedom

 
 
Source
Time zone

UTC+2

Total area

603,500 sq km

Capital

Kyiv (Kiev) 

Currency

Hryvnia (UAH) 

Government type

Semi-presidential republic

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 the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), and the Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)), Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish (2013 est.)

Total population
1990 2000 2010 2015 2020
51.9 million 49.2 million 45.9 million 45.2 million 44.1 million
 
 
Source
Urban population as % of total population
1960 1980 2000 2020
46.8% 61.7 67.1% 69.6%
Population median age

41.2 years (2020 est.)

Population growth rate

-0.5% (2022 est.)

Life expectancy

73.5 years (2022 estimate)

Literacy

Total population: 99.8%

Male: 99.8%

Female: 99.7% (2015)

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write 

% of population living on less than $3.10 a day

0.1% (last available estimate, 2020)

Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index)

25.6 (last available estimate, 2020)

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)

Freedom House rating

Total score: 61/100

Status: Partly Free

Political Rights: 26/40

Civil Liberties: 35/60 (2022)

Source
Total telephone subscribers as % of population

Fixed: 7.9%

Mobile: 129.3% (2020)

(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)

Internet users as % of total population

75.0% (2020)

Mercer Cost of living index

N/A

CO2 emissions

4.2 metric tons per capita (2018)
World Bank / CO2 emissions

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