Over 18,000 new companies opened in Ukraine in six months of 2024, reported Opendatabot with reference to the data of the Unified State Register.

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37,000 new companies were registered in Ukraine last year.

Among new companies in the first half of 2024, 69.5% or about 12,000 are limited liability companies.

In second place are public organizations – more than 1,700 (9.7%). The top three include charitable organizations – 1,100 (6.5%).

New farms and condominiums account for 2.9% and 2.4% of all new businesses, respectively.

The largest number of new companies was registered in Kyiv — 5,600 or 31% of the total number. It is followed by Lviv Oblast – 1,500 new companies (8.2%) and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – 1,400 (7.9%).

On August 21, 2024, the largest textile company of Ukraine received a grant for the creation of a knitting workshop.

1.000 largest Ukrainian companies earned 7.2 trillion hryvnias ($174 billion) for the year.