Capital investments in Ukraine in 2017 grew by 22.1% against 18% in 2016, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to the service, over the past year UAH 412.8 billion of capital investments (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the ATO zone) were used.
In the regional context, the largest increase in capital investments in 2017 compared to 2016 was recorded in Kherson (50.7%), Zaporizhia (47.4%), Donetsk (44.5%), Ternopil (42.3%), Vinnytsia (40%), Chernihiv (34.8%), Rivne (34.6%), Poltava (33.8%), Zakarpattia (32.4%), Ivano-Frankivsk (32.1%), Dnipropetrovsk (28.9%), Odesa (28.8%), Lviv regions (26%) and Kyiv (21.4%).
According to statistics, capital investments in 2017 decreased in Kyiv region (by 5.9%).
In the sectoral context, the largest growth of capital investments last year was recorded in health care (by 89.5%), education (by 68.4%), in the sphere of art, sports and entertainment (by 65.9%), in state administration, defense and compulsory social insurance (by 44.9%), at the enterprises of transport, storage facilities, in postal and courier activities (by 42.2%), advertising activities and market research (by 35.5%), professional, scientific and technical activities (by 32.4%), in agriculture, forestry and fishery (by 31.2%), industry (by 23.4%), in the field of administrative and supplementary services (by 18.7%), wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (by 13%), and construction (by 10.5%).
