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  1. ENERGY
  2. TRANSPORTATION
  3. COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA
The following contains some information about energy production, the transportation network, and communications and media in Ukraine. It draws extensively on material from publications published by the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund and from the Handbook of International Economic Statistics, 1993 published by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Efforts have been made to ensure accuracy; updates will be made periodically. Please report any errors of commission and omission which you may notice to Max Pyziur at pyz@panix.com.
Updated 11/22/94


ENERGY
19891990 19911992
Electric Power Generation (bln kWh)295.3 298.5275.8 252
kWh. per capita5,758
Crude Oil Production
Metric tons ('000)5,252
Barrels ('000)38,497

TRANSPORTATION
Roads
Total miles170,077
Paved miles146,899
Railroads
Total track-miles14,168
Passenger-miles traveled (million)47,102
Freight ton-miles carried (million)331,608
Ports
Total9
Major5
Cargo
loadedna
unloadedna
Merchant Fleet
bulk carriers59
tankers11
dwt. tons. (1991)5,403,685
Civil Aviation
Total airfields (major)20
--Scheduled airline traffic
Passenger miles (1990)10,004,540,000
Short ton-miles (1990)685,000,000

COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA
Newspapers (Major dailies)8
Telephones: Sets in use per 1,000 pop. (1991)135
19881989 19901992
Radio receivers ('000 in use)38,655 40,41441,200 41,300
Television rcvrs ('000 in use)16,000 16,75216,950 17,100
Book production
Titles8,311na 7,0465,857
Copies ('000)184,588na 170,476136,417
Daily newspapers
Titlesnana 127na
Circulation ('000)nana 13,026na
Non-daily newspapers
Titlesnana 1,660na
Circulation ('000)nana 11,893na
Other periodicals
Titlesnana 185na
Circulation ('000)nana 9,957na
Please note, for book production the figures above include pamphlets (2,771 titles and 53,600,000 copies in 1988; 1.878 titles and 53,874,000 copies in 1990. For 1988 the number of titles totalled 1,794 with a combined circulation of 24,000,000 for daily and non-daily newspapers.

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