Essential information and facts about Ukraine:


Capital


Population Median age Religion


Ethnic Groups Languages Currency


Government type Kiev


Total Area 603,550sq.km 43.7 million 41.2 years


Orthodox, Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, other


Ukrainian (78%), Russian (17%), other


Ukrainian (official), Russian, other


Hryvnia (UAH) Semi-presidential republic


Chief of State President Volodymyr Zelensky (since May 2019)


Head of Government Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal (since March 2020)


Unemployment


Elections President appointed by majority vote for five year term (eligible for second term). Next election due March 2024. Prime Minister selected by the Verkhovna Rada. 9.8 per cent (2020)


Tourism 13.7 million (2019)


Te country has fared better than most during the pandemic, mainly because of its macroeconomic development and a windfall in foreign trade mostly down to exports in agricultural goods, iron ore and steel. Te unemployment rate in mid-2020 was 9.8 per cent compared to the usual average of 8.7 per cent.


Under the re-shuffle Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk resigned after just six months on the job and Deputy Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal replaced him in March 2020 coinciding with the set up of the country’s Covid-19 Pandemic Response programme.


Te country has fared better than most during the pandemic, mainly because of its macroeconomic development and a windfall in foreign trade as a result of rises in the export of agricultural goods, iron ore and steel. Te unemployment rate in mid-2020 was 9.8 per cent compared to the usual average of 8.7 per cent.


P46 WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS


By the beginning of March, Covid total cases in the Ukraine were around 1.35 million with over 26,000 deaths. Vaccinations began in Ukraine on February 24 when doctors at Cherkasy Oblast Hospital became the first to receive their jabs. Te first batch of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived the day before comprising of 500,000 doses, which is the first portion of 12 million doses Ukraine has ordered from India.


Interestingly, closing the borders to international tourists wasn’t as disastrous for Ukraine as other countries, mainly because Ukrainians consistently spend more abroad than the country receives from incoming tourists. Forced to stay at home this particular protocol had less


of a detrimental effect than in those countries heavily reliant on tourism.


Even the closure of bars, restaurants and hotels was less intense because these services employ a smaller share of the labour force than the likes of Spain or France, for example.


Back in the early 2000s, the country attracted more than 20 million tourists each year which dropped back in 2014 to around 10 million. In 2019, there were 13.7 million visitors with tourism receipts of UAH59.5bn - in comparison 29.3 million Ukrainians travelled abroad. Visitors from Moldova (32 per cent) and Belarus (17 per cent) are the main inbound tourists


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