Retail turnover in Ukraine increased by 11.6% in September 2020 as compared to the same month in 2019 in comparable prices, while in the previous month it grew by 8.7%, the State Statistics Service said on Wednesday, October 21.
According to its data, retail turnover decreased by 0.7% in September as compared to August 2020.
Retail turnover increased by 6.7% in January-September 2020 compared to the same period last year.
The largest increase in retail turnover of enterprises (legal entities and individual entrepreneurs) in the nine months of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019 was registered in Kyiv (by 16.6%), Zaporizhia (by 14.1%), Chernihiv (by 12.4%), Volyn (by 12.3%), Kirovohrad (by 11.3%), Dnipropetrovsk (by 8.8%), Poltava (8.6%) and Khmelnytsky (8.4%) regions, as well as in Kyiv (7.7%).
The State Statistics Service reminds that the data is given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, and part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
