Country comparison Russia : Ukraine

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	Kiev

Population

	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:	47	42
Civil rights:	26	36
Health:	74	71
Climate:	33	33
Cost of Living:	62	60
Popularity:	42	38

Economy

	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

	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	0.020	409	0.009
Airports:	1,218	0.008	187	0.004

Energy balance

	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

	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

	Russia	Ukraine
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	7.12	7.46
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.01	3.01
Diabetes:	6.1 %	6.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.5 %	0.7 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	68.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	26.8 %	25.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Russia and Ukraine

	Russia	Ukraine
Daytime temperatures:	9.4 °C	14.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	0.1 °C	5.0 °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 %