80% of registered business entities in Ukraine are individual entrepreneurs
Since the beginning of this year (as of November 1) 178,446 businesses entities have been registered in Ukraine, informs the press service of the State Registration Service.
The vast majority of them are individual entrepreneurs (137 014 or 80%). The number of registered legal entities amounts to 41432.
Most businesses have been registered in the Donetsk region - 14,278 in Kyiv - 12689, in the Dnipropetrovsk region (12012), Kharkiv region - 11144, Odesa Region - 10866 and the Kiev region - 8334. This means that 15% of all Ukrainian businesses carry out their business in the capital and in the Donetsk region.
It should also be noted that since the beginning of the year (as of November 1) 121,853 legal entities and 19,059 individual entrepreneurs discontinued their activities.
