Country comparison: Russia / Ukraine

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Russia and Ukraine. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.

General information

	Russia	Ukraine
Region:	Eastern Europe	Eastern Europe
Area:	17,098,250 km²	603,550 km²
Official language:	Russian	Ukrainian
Government form:	Federal republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1991 AD	1991 AD
Capital:	Moscow	Kyiv

Population

Details for Russia and Ukraine

	Russia	Ukraine
Population:	143,446,000	43,815,000
Inhabitants/km²:	8.4	72.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 76 years
Average age:	Ø 40.3 years	Ø 41.2 years
Birthrate:	9.80 ‰	7.80 ‰
Deathrate:	14.60 ‰	15.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.70 ‰	-0.26 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Russia	Ukraine
Political stability:	49	44
Civil rights:	24	36
Health:	74	71
Climate:	33	33
Cost of Living:	62	60
Popularity:	43	39

Economy

Details for Russia and Ukraine

	Russia	Ukraine
Currency:	Russian rubel (1 RUB = 100 Kopeken)	hrywnja (1 UAH =100 Kopeken)
Unemployment rate:	5.0 %	8.9 %
Inflation rate:	6.69 %	2.73 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	36.87 %	29.91 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	46.20 %	45.20 %
Average income:	11,600 US$	4,120 US$
Corruption index:	71 (very bad)	68 (bad)

	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.	UKR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,775,800 M US$	12.38 M US$	200,086 M US$	4.57 M US$
Gross national product:	1,692,598 M US$	11.80 M US$	170,655 M US$	3.89 M US$
Exported goods:	549,773 M US$	3.83 M US$	81,761 M US$	1.87 M US$
Imported goods:	379,471 M US$	2.65 M US$	84,034 M US$	1.92 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Russia and Ukraine

	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.	UKR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,283,387 km	8.95 km	169,694 km	3.87 km
Railways:	85,494 km	0.60 km	21,733 km	0.50 km
Waterways:	102,000 km	0.71 km	1,672 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	2,873	0.0200	409	0.0093
Passenger airports:	143	0.0010	16	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Russia and Ukraine

	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.	UKR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	909.60 bn kWh	6.34 m kWh	133.20 bn kWh	3.04 m kWh
Energy production:	1,031.00 bn kWh	7.19 m kWh	153.60 bn kWh	3.51 m kWh
Energy export:	13.13 bn kWh	91,532.66 kWh	3.59 bn kWh	81,959.02 kWh
Energy imports:	3.19 bn kWh	22,266.21 kWh	77.00 m kWh	1,757.41 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.70 bn t	11,876.17 t	174.73 m t	3,987.94 t

Telecommunication

Details for Russia and Ukraine

	Russia	Ukraine
International dialing:	+7	+380
Internet domain:	.ru	.ua

	RUS total	RUS per 1000 inh.	UKR total	UKR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	25,892,405	181	3,314,263	76
Mobile cellulars:	238,733,217	1664	53,977,690	1232
Internet server:	14,865,000	104	2,173,000	50
Internet users:	121,921,506	850	32,877,545	750
Broadband Internet:	33,893,305	236	7,769,401	177

Healthcare system

Details for Russia and Ukraine

	Russia	Ukraine
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	7.12	7.46
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.01	3.01
Diabetes:	6.1 %	6.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.46 ‰	0.73 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	68.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	26.8 %	25.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Russia and Ukraine

	Russia	Ukraine
Daytime temperatures:	9.4 °C	14.3 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	0.1 °C	5.1 °C
Water temperature:	9.0 °C	11.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	73 %	76 %
Rain days:	7.7	7.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	5.7

Native languages

	Russia	Ukraine
Russian:	82.0 %	32.9 %
Ukrainian:	1.3 %	64.7 %
Dolgang:	5.3 %	n/a
Tatar:	3.0 %	n/a
German:	1.5 %	n/a
Chechen:	1.0 %	n/a
Chuvash:	0.9 %	n/a
Bashkir:	0.7 %	n/a
Romanian:	n/a	0.7 %
Mordva:	0.5 %	n/a
Mari:	0.4 %	n/a
Kazakh:	0.4 %	n/a
Avarianian:	0.4 %	n/a
Udmur:	0.3 %	n/a
Byelorussian:	0.3 %	0.3 %
Bulgarian:	n/a	0.3 %
Hungarian:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.0 %	0.7 %

Religions

	Russia	Ukraine
Christianity:	79.6 %	88.8 %
Nondenominational:	7.0 %	n/a
Islam:	4.0 %	1.7 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.1 %	0.2 %
other:	8.7 %	9.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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