d petroleum
products, machinery and transport equipment, food products

Exports - partners: Russia 22.6%, Turkey 6.2%, Italy 5.1%, Germany
(2001 est.)

Imports: $17.1 billion (2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: energy, machinery and parts, transportation
equipment, chemicals

Imports - partners: Russia 36.9%, Turkmenistan 10.5%, Germany 8.7%, US
(2001 est.)

Debt - external: $11.8 billion (2001)

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 - 5.3126 (January 2002), 5.3722
(2001), 5.4402 (2000), 4.1304 (1999), 2.4495 (1998), 1.8617 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Ukraine

Telephones - main lines in use: 9.45 million (April 1999)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 236,000 (1998)

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: 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 which connects 18 countries; additional international service is
provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine
cable and by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik
satellite systems

Radio broadcast stations: AM 134, FM 289, shortwave 4 (1998)

Radios: 45.05 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: at least 33 (plus 21 repeaters that
relay broadcasts from Russia) (1997)

Televisions: 18.05 million (1997)

Internet country code: .ua

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 260 (2001)

Internet users: 750,000 (2001)

Transportation Ukraine

Railways: total: 22,510 km broad gauge: 21,951 km 1.524-m gauge (8,927
km electrified) standard gauge: 49 km 1.435-m gauge note: these data do
not include railroads dedicated to serving industry and not in co