Ukraine - Geography
Here, let us take a look at the Geography of Ukraine. Strategic position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; second-largest country in Europe after Russia. Mother's mean age at first birth is 26.2 years (2019 est.) (), whereas, the Maternal mortality ratio is 15 deaths/100,000 live births (2023 est.)
Geographical data of Ukraine
| Location | Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Belarus, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates | 49 00 N, 32 00 E |
| Map references | AsiaEurope |
| Tarrain | mostly fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, with mountains found only in the west (the Carpathians) or in the extreme south of the Crimean Peninsula |
| Natural Resources | iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land |
| Natural Hazards | occasional floods; occasional droughts |
| Irrigated Land | 1,000 sq km (2022) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Dunay (Danube) (shared with Germany [s], Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 km; Dnipro (Dnieper) river mouth (shared with Russia [s] and Belarus) - 2,287 km; Dnister (Dniester) river source and mouth (shared with Moldova) - 1,411 km; Vistula (shared with Poland [s/m] and Belarus) - 1,213 km note: [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
| Major aquifers | |
| Land Boundaries | 5,581 km |
| Border Countries | Belarus 1,111 km; Hungary 128 km; Moldova 1,202 km; Poland 498 km; Romania 601 km; Russia 1,944 km, Slovakia 97 km |
| Coastline | 2,782 km |
| Climate | temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland; warm summers across the greater part of the country, hot in the south |
| Area | |
| Total Area | |
| Land Area | 579,330 sq km |
| Water Area | 24,220 sq km |
| comparative Area | almost four times the size of Georgia; slightly smaller than Texas |
| Maritime Claims | |
| Territorial sea | 12 nm |
| Exclusive economic zone | 200 nm |
| Continental shelf | 200 m or to the depth of exploitation |
| Elevations | |
| Highest point | Hora Hoverla 2,061 m |
| Lowest point | Black Sea 0 m |
| Mean elevation | 175 m |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 71.3% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 56.8% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 13% (2022 est.) |
| Forest | 16.7% (2022 est.) |
| Other | 12% (2022 est.) |
Population Distribution
Densest settlement in the eastern (Donbas) and western regions; notable concentrations in and around major urban areas of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donets'k, Dnipropetrovs'k, and Odesa
People and Society
In Ukraine, the different Ethnic groups are such that we have: 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.)
| Population | |
|---|---|
| Pop growth rate | 2.38% (2024 est.) |
| Birth rate | 6 births/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
| Death rate | 18.6 deaths/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
| Health expenditure | |
| Physicians Density | |
| Hospital bed Density | 6.3 beds/1,000 population (2020 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 1.22 children born/woman (2024 est.) |
| Gross reproduction rate | 0.59 (2024 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | |
| Est married women (ages 15-49) | 61.6% (2023 est.) |
| Literacy | |
| Education expenditures | |
| Net Migration rate | 36.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
| Nationality | Ukrainian | Ukrainian(s) |
| Languages | |
| 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.) |
| Age Structure | |
| 0-14 years | 12.3% (male 2,278,116/female 2,122,500) |
| 15-64 years | 67.8% (male 12,784,928/female 11,376,460) |
| 65 years and over | 19.9% (2024 est.) (male 2,447,105/female 4,652,717) |
| Dependency Ratios | |
| Total dependency ratio | 47.6 (2024 est.) |
| Youth dependency ratio | 18.2 (2024 est.) |
| Elderly dependency ratio | 29.4 (2024 est.) |
| Potential support ratio | 3.4 (2024 est.) |
| Median Age | |
| Total | 44.9 years (2024 est.) |
| Male | 41.4 years |
| Female | 49.2 years |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 70.1% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | -0.27% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 3.017 million KYIV (capital), 1.421 million Kharkiv, 1.008 million Odesa, 942,000 Dnipropetrovsk, 888,000 Donetsk (2023). |
| Sex Ratio | |
| At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female |
| 0-14 years | 1.07 male(s)/female |
| 15-64 years | 1.12 male(s)/female |
| 65 years and over | 0.53 male(s)/female |
| Total population | 0.97 male(s)/female (2024 est.) |
| Infant Motality | |
| Total | 8.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2024 est.) |
| Male | 9.7 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Female | 7.6 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Life Expectancy at birth | |
| Total population | 70.5 years (2024 est.) |
| Male | 65.4 years |
| Female | 75.8 years |
| Drinking Water Sources | |
| Improved: urban | urban: 90.8% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: rural | rural: 100% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: total | total: 93.6% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: urban | urban: 9.2% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: rural | rural: 0% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: total | total: 6.4% of population (2022 est.) |
| Sanitation facility acess | |
| Improved: urban | urban: 100% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: rural | rural: 100% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: total | total: 100% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: urban | urban: 0% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: rural | rural: 0% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: total | total: 0% of population (2022 est.) |
| Alcohol consumption per capita | |
| Total | 5.69 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Beer | 2.44 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Wine | 0.32 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Spirits | 2.88 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Other alcohols | 0.05 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Tobacco use | |
| Total | 20.4% (2025 est.) |
| Male | 35.5% (2025 est.) |
| Female | 8% (2025 est.) |
Demographic profile
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