Retail goods turnover in Ukraine in March 2021 year-over-year grew by 13.1% year-over-year in comparable prices, the State Statistics Service has reported.
In the first quarter of 2021, retail trade turnover grew by 7.5% compared to the first quarter of 2020, while in March 2021 compared to the previous month, its growth was 11.8%.
The largest increase in the retail turnover of enterprises (legal entities and private entrepreneurs) in January-March 2021 year-over-year was recorded in Kyiv (by 14.6%), Chernivtsi (by 13.7%), Vinnytsia (by 12.5%), Ternopil (by 11.8%), Chernihiv (by 10.5%), Khmelnytsky (by 10%), Poltava and Zakarpattia (by 9, 9%), Zaporizhia (9.8%), Dnipropetrovsk (9.1%), Odesa (8.9%), Lviv (7.8%) regions and Kyiv city (6.8%).
The authority said that the data are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and the Joint Forces Operations area.
