As of the end of August, 5.8 thousand notaries work in Ukraine, according to the Unified Register of Notaries of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the number of notaries has decreased by 11%. A quarter of all notaries in the country work in Kyiv. 82% of these professionals are women.
5,845 notaries work in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the number of notaries has decreased by an average of 200 professionals per year. In general, compared to 2021, there are now 11% fewer such specialists.
It is worth noting that the Register of Notaries is dynamic, as new lawyers are constantly added to it and specialists who are no longer authorized to practice notary work are removed. Accordingly, it is possible to compare the number of specialists only as of a specific date.
Most notaries are registered in Kyiv – 1,292 or 22%. Also, specialists choose to work in Dnipropetrovska oblast (451 (8)%), Lvivska oblast (446 or 8%), and Odeska oblast (420 or 7%).
Since the start of the full-scale notary campaign, the number of notaries has increased in relatively safe regions of the country: +5% in Cherkasy and Kyiv regions, +2% in Rivne and Vinnytsia regions. The only region where the number of notaries has not changed is Ternopil region: 132 specialists work there, as it was before the full-scale lockdown.
Instead, in the regions close to the frontline, the number of specialists has decreased: 20 times in Luhansk region, 4 times in Kherson and Donetsk regions, 1.8 times in Zaporizhzhia, and 1.3 times in Kharkiv region.
The majority of Ukrainian notaries are engaged in private practice – 88% or 5,139 of them. Another 12%, or 687 professionals nationwide, work in state notary offices and only 0.3% work in state notary archives.
The vast majority of Ukrainian notaries are women: 82% or 4,804 professionals. It should be noted that, unlike in many other areas, the full-scale war did not have much of an impact on the gender advantage in the notary profession: in 2021, there were 81% of women.
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