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Country

Ukraine

49.72° N, 32.14° E

Death rate of 17.61 per 1,000 — the 1st highest of 226 countries.

death rate 17.61 per 1,000 · 1st/226
CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · ranks computed across the countries in this atlas that carry the value

Population
44,385,155
Area
603,550 km²
Population density
≈ 78 / km²
Capital
Kyiv
Natural Earth
ISO codes
UA · UKR
GDP (nominal)
$190.74 billion
GDP per capita (PPP)
$16,300
How big, reallyDrawn at the same scale as Papua New Guinea. Equal-area projection, not the map you are used to.
Ukraine 603,550 km²Papua New Guinea 462,840 km²

geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m · EPSG:6933 equal-area

Where Ukraine sits in the world

Each line is every country in this atlas that carries the value, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the world median; the mark on each line is this country.

  1. Median age44.6 years26th of 224 · median 32.6 years
  2. Life expectancy70.5 years170th of 224 · median 76.2 years
  3. Fertility rate1.22 children per woman217th of 225 · median 1.92 children per woman
  4. Population44,385,15532nd of 235 · median 5,454,073
  5. Total area603,550 km²47th of 228 · median 83,736 km²
  6. Coastline2,782 km43rd of 229 · median 402 km

Overview

Name

Derived from the Old East Slavic or Old Russian word "ukraina," meaning "borderland," the name comes from a term used for an area on medieval Russia's border during the Tatar invasion in the 13th century.

Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person

Key figures

CIA World Factbook

Economy

GDP (nominal)
$190.74 billion
GDP (PPP)
$577.58 billion
GDP per capita (PPP)
$16,300
GDP growth
+2.9%
Inflation (consumer prices)
6.5%
Unemployment
9.9%
Exports
$56.11 billion
Imports
$92.03 billion

People

Life expectancy
70.5 years
Median age
44.6 years
Birth rate
6.24 per 1,000
Death rate
17.61 per 1,000
Fertility rate
1.22 children per woman
Population growth
+2.42% a year
Urban population
70.1%
Languages
  • Ukrainianofficial67.5%
  • Russian29.6%
  • others2.9%
Religions
  • Orthodox , Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church , and the Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate )includes the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU; UAOC; UOC-MP
  • Ukrainian Greek Catholic
  • Roman Catholic
  • Protestant
  • Muslim
  • Jewish

Land

Total area
603,550 km²Land 579,330 km² · Water 24,220 km²
Coastline
2,782 km
Land borders
5,581 km
Mean elevation
175 m
Highest point
2,061 m Hora Hoverla

Values from the CIA World Factbook archive. Each carries the year it describes; open a year for the exact source field.

Connections

Natural geography 7

Natural Earth outlines · features with a Wikidata ID

Largest cities 47

Population · Natural Earth

  1. Kyivcapital2.7M
  2. Kharkiv1.5M
  3. Dnipro1.1M
  4. Odessa991K
  5. Donetsk988K
  6. Lvov803.9K
  7. Zaporizhzhya788K
  8. Kryvyy Rih652.4K
  9. Mykolayiv510.8K
  10. Mariupol481.6K
  11. Luhansk452K
  12. Khmelnytskyy398.3K

Sources