The volume of construction work performed in Ukraine in October 2018 decreased by 4.8% compared with October 2017, while in September 2018 from September 2017 this figure decreased by 0.2%. According to the State Statistics Service, the data are given excluding the occupied territory of Crimea and the temporarily uncontrolled territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
According to the agency, the volume of construction work performed in October 2018 decreased by 5.2% compared with September 2018 (according to the seasonally adjusted data declined by 2.5%), whereas in September 2018 this figure grew by 4% compared to August 2018.
According to the report, in October 2018 from October 2017 the volume of construction work increased in residential, nonresidential construction and in engineering. According to unadjusted data, the growth in residential construction was 0.3%, in nonresidential some 2.5% and in construction of engineering structures by 9.6%.
In addition, in October the volume of construction of residential buildings increased by 0.5% compared to September, nonresidential buildings by 7%, and engineering structures by 5.4%.
In January-October 2018 compared with January-October 2017 the fall in the volume of construction work was recorded in Kyiv City and nine regions of Ukraine, in particular in Luhansk (by 28.1%, to UAH 387.9 million), Zakarpattia (by 17.2%, to UAH 985.7 million), Mykolaiv (by 14.9%, to UAH 1.96 billion) and Sumy (14.9%, to UAH 929.7 million) regions.
The volume of construction work in Ukraine in February 2018 decreased by 2.2% compared to February 2017, while the decrease in January 2018 from January 2017 was 1%. According to the State Statistics Service, the data are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol and certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. According to the authority, the volume of construction work in February 2018 grew by 2.8% compared with the previous month, while in January 2018 it plunged by 74% compared with December 2017.
According to the report, in February 2018 the growth in the volume of construction was observed nonresidential construction (2.4%), while the figure in construction of residential buildings fell by 0.3%. The decrease of 6.8% was recorded in construction of engineering facilities.
In February 2018, the volume of construction of residential buildings fell by 1.6% compared with January 2018, and it grew by 1.6% in construction of nonresidential buildings and by 7.3% in construction of engineering facilities.
In January-February 2018, construction work fell in 10 regions, in particular in Luhansk region by 83%, to UAH 33.3 million, Odesa region by 39%, to UAH 584.6 million and Sumy region by 19.5%, to UAH 85 million. The largest growth in the volume of construction works in January and February 2018 was seen in Zakarpattia region by 93.8%, to UAH 124.7 млн million and Chernivtsi region by 71.9%, to UAH 168 million.
