y - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
86,490 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
290,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
197.5 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
18.2 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
74.1 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
55.9 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
560.7 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$2.891 billion (2003)

Exports:
$23.63 billion (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
ferrous and nonferrous metals, fuel and petroleum products,
chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, food products

Exports - partners:
Russia 17.8%, Germany 5.9%, Italy 5.3%, China 4.1% (2003)

Imports:
$23.58 billion (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
energy, machinery and equipment, chemicals

Imports - partners:
Russia 35.9%, Germany 9.4%, Turkmenistan 7.2% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$6.937 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$16.13 billion (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$637.7 million (1995); IMF Extended Funds Facility $2.2 billion
(1998)

Currency:
hryvnia (UAH)

Currency code:
UAH

Exchange rates:
hryvnia per US dollar - 5.3327 (2003), 5.3266 (2002), 5.3722
(2001), 5.4402 (2000), 4.1304 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Ukraine

Telephones - main lines in use:
10,833,300 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.2 million (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan,
running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines,
international connections, and the mobile cellular system
domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a
telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair;
more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be
satisfied; telephone density is now rising slowly and the domestic
trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system
is expanding at a high rate
international: country code - 380; two new domestic trunk lines are
a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and three
Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic
Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connect