More than 74 thousand new businesses were opened by Ukrainians in the first quarter of 2024, according to the Unified State Register. This is 33.6% more than in the first quarter of last year. Most businesses are opened in Kyiv and Dnipro regions. Entrepreneurs are leading the way in trade, personal services, and IT.
A record 74,050 new businesses were opened by Ukrainians in the first quarter of 2024. This is a third more than last year and 18% more than before the full-scale invasion in 2021.
The capital has remained the undisputed leader in the number of new cases in recent years. In the first quarter of this year, 10,252 new businesses were registered in Kyiv, accounting for 13.8% of the total. Dnipropetrovs’k region is in second place with 6.8 thousand newly established businesses. Kyiv region is in the bottom three: 5.7 thousand new sole proprietorships.
A quarter of newly registered sole proprietorships are engaged in retail trade, which is the most popular area, unchanged over the past 4 years. Personal services and computer programming are also among the most popular business areas among Ukrainian entrepreneurs.
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