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  • Population......................................................................45,994,288 (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................-0.651% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate.....................................................9.55 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Death rate................................................15.93 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................-0.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Ethnic groups..................................Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census)

Caught Between East and West, Ukraine Struggles with Its Migration Policy
Since its independence in 1991, Ukraine has expanded immigration and emigration rights — but it has also become a neighbor of the expanded European Union, a crossroads for illegal migration, and fertile ground for human traffickers. Olena Malynovksa of the National Institute for International Security Problems in Kyiv reports.

Ukraine page on the World Migration Map

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Neighboring Countries

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Belarus
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Hungary
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Other Resources

The State Committee of Statistics of Ukraine (in Ukrainian, Russian, and English)
http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua

Government of Ukraine official website
http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb

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