Ukraine

  • President:Petro Poroshenko
  • Prime Minister:Volodymyr Groysman
  • Capital city:Kyiv (Kiev)
  • Languages:Ukrainian (official) 67.5%, Russian (regional language) 29.6%, other (includes small Crimean Tatar-, Moldavian-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) 2.9% (2001 est.) note: 2012 legislation enables 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; Ukrainian remains the country's only official nationwide language
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  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:44,831,159 (2017)
  • Area, sq km:579,290 (2017)
  • GDP per capita, US$:2,640 (2017)
  • GDP, billion current US$:112.2 (2017)
  • GINI index:25 (2016)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:76 (2017)

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