ty: 54,380,000 kW
production: 182 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,200 kWh (1994)

Industries: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals,
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food-processing
(especially sugar)

Agriculture: accounts for about 25% of GDP; grain, vegetables, meat,
milk, sugar beets

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly
for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program; used as
transshipment point for illicit drugs to Western Europe

Economic aid: $550 million economic aid and $350 million to help
disassemble the atomic weapons from the US in 1994

Currency: Ukraine withdrew the Russian ruble from circulation on 12
November 1992 and declared the karbovanets (plural karbovantsi) sole
legal tender in Ukrainian markets; Ukrainian officials claim this is
an interim move toward introducing a new currency - the hryvnya -
possibly in mid-1995

Exchange rates: karbovantsi per 1$US - 107,900 (end December 1994),
130,000 (April 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Ukraine:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 23,350 km
broad gauge: 23,350 km 1.524-m gauge (8,600 km electrified)

Highways:
total: 273,700 km
paved and graveled: 236,400 km
unpaved: earth 37,300 km

Inland waterways: 1,672 km perennially navigable (Pryp''yat' and
Dnipro Rivers)

Pipelines: crude oil 2,010 km; petroleum products 1,920 km; natural
gas 7,800 km (1992)

Ports: Berdyans'k, Illichivs'k, Izmayil, Kerch, Kherson, Kiev (Kyyiv),
Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Pivdenne, Reni

Merchant marine:
total: 379 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,799,253 GRT/5,071,175
DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 7, bulk 55, cargo 221, chemical tanker 2,
container 20, multifunction large-load carrier 1, oil tanker 10,
passenger 12, passenger-cargo 5, railcar carrier 2, refrigerated cargo
5, roll-on/roll-off cargo 32, short-sea passenger 7

Airports:
total: 706
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 14
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 55
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 34
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 57
with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 7
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 16
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 37
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 476

@Ukraine:Communications

Telephone system: 7,886,000 telephone circuits; about 151.