Ukraine
population: State migration svc (1 Sep 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 57 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography57 metros
Ukraine metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 57 tracked metros
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🗂️ Administrative subdivisions
25 entries listed under Ukraine across 2 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.
Oblasts (24)
Cities (1)
📋 At a glance
- Official language
- Ukrainian
- Currency
- Hryvnia (₴)
- Government
- Semi-presidential system
- Legislature
- Verkhovna Rada
- Constitution
- 1996, 7 amendment events since
- Time zones
- Eastern European Time, UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +380
- Internet TLD
- .ua
- ISO 3166
- UA
- Established
- 1991
- Highest point
- Hoverla (2,061 m (6,762 ft))
- National anthem
- Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia
Facts via Wikidata.
📰 In the news6 stories
The Athletic · 23 Aug 2026
"How Shakhtar and Chelsea agreed for the Ukrainian club to play Champions League games at Stamford Bridge"Further reading from the day's reading list.
Puck · 27 Jul 2026
"The Miseducation of Laura Loomer"Puck's Julia Ioffe reached Laura Loomer in a Kyiv hotel room, where the MAGA enforcer explained her reversal on Ukraine.
Puck · 26 Jul 2026
"Laura Loomer's Stunning Reversal on Ukraine"Further reading from the day's section on the administration governing by grudge.
Status · 26 Jul 2026
"Loomer's Kyiv Curveball"Further reading from the day's section on the administration governing by grudge.
Puck · 25 Jul 2026
"The Miseducation of Laura Loomer"Further reading from the day's section on peptides, the cyclospora outbreak and other quick hits.
Puck · 23 Jul 2026
Autonomous ground vehicles are already fighting in UkraineAutonomous ground vehicles already fighting in Ukraine offer an up-close look at the Pentagon's agentic-weapons era.
💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations1 full membership
Security
Political & Economic
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History8 leaders · click to expand
marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy✦ Current
2019–PresentPresident
Volodymyr Zelensky
2019–2019President
Petro Poroshenko
2014–2019President
Oleksandr Turchynov
2014–2014President
Viktor Yanukovych
2010–2014President
Viktor Yushchenko
2005–2010President
Leonid Kuchma
1994–2005President
Leonid Kravchuk
1991–1994President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Volodymyr Zelenskyy✦ Current | President | 2019–Present |
| Volodymyr Zelensky | President | 2019–2019 |
| Petro Poroshenko | President | 2014–2019 |
| Oleksandr Turchynov | President | 2014–2014 |
| Viktor Yanukovych | President | 2010–2014 |
| Viktor Yushchenko | President | 2005–2010 |
| Leonid Kuchma | President | 1994–2005 |
| Leonid Kravchuk | President | 1991–1994 |
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Conflicts since 19456 interstate wars · click to expand
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russo-Ukrainian War● | 2014–present | Russia,DPR,LPR,North Korea | 400,000–650,000 |
| Second Ivorian Civil War | 2010–2011 | Ivory Coast Military of Ivory Coast,Liberia Liberian mercenaries,Ivory Coast COJEP,Ivory Coast FPI | — |
| Chadian Civil War (2005–2010) | 2005–2010 | Sudan (until 2010) | — |
| Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine | 1939 | Kingdom of Hungary | — |
| Polish–Soviet War● | 1919–1921 | Russian SFSR,Ukrainian SSR | — |
| Polish–Ukrainian War | 1918–1919 | Poland Poland | — |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Ukraine is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Ukraine: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Show all 16 decades
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
💰 Billionaires7 · $17.3B combined · click to expand
| # | Name | Net worth | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 509 | Rinat Akhmetov | $7.8B | Metals & Mining |
| 1513 | Victor Pinchuk | $2.8B | Metals & Mining |
| 1913 | Vlad Yatsenko | $2.2B | Finance & Investments |
| 3006 | Petro Poroshenko | $1.2B | Food & Beverage |
| 3150 | Vadim Novinsky | $1.2B | Metals & Mining |
| 3331 | Kostyantin Zhevago | $1.0B | Metals & Mining |
| 3337 | Andrii Verevskyi | $1.0B | Food & Beverage |
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
🏆 National Teams
Ukraine on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.