Ukraine

Ukraine held 58th place, between Qatar and Morocco, as US$ GDP rose 12.3% to US$214.2 billion. Most of that was exchange-rate and price effects, not output; real growth was +1.8%. Services account for 61.0% of output and industry 17.9%, with manufacturing at 8.3% and agriculture at 7.6%.

Inflation ran at 12.7%, unemployment at 11.6% and government gross debt at 107.1% of GDP. With 39.0 million people, GDP per capita came to US$5,866, 118th of 196, rising to 105th on a PPP basis at $18,905 international dollars. Ukraine is the 24th-largest of 52 economies in Europe & Central Asia, about the size of the Indianapolis, IN metro area. In 2000 it ranked 60th with GDP of US$32.4 billion; US$ GDP has since grown 6.6 times. The IMF projects a +32% rise to US$283.5 billion by 2030, which would move Ukraine up to 57th.