Ukrainians registered 873,825 new individual entrepreneurs and companies during the three years of full-scale war. During the same time, 599,472 business entities ceased operations. This is reported by YouControl analysts.
- 873,825 new businesses
So, as of February 24, 2022, the following were registered in Ukraine:
- 104 thousand – legal entities;
- 769 thousand – individual entrepreneurs.
It is noted that the largest number of new business registrations:
- 143 thousand – in Kyiv,
- 77 thousand – in Dnipropetrovsk region,
- 69 thousand – in Lviv region.
How many businesses closed
As analysts emphasize, during the same time, 599,472 business entities ceased operations. In particular, more than 180 thousand of the newly created businesses over these three years have already ceased operations. As YouControl emphasized, all data includes both newly created companies and business re-registrations, as well as all forms of ownership — from individual entrepreneurs to state-owned enterprises.
Note that, despite the risks of war, more individual entrepreneurs were opened every month than closed. However, at the end of 2024, the situation changed, which is likely due to the increase in the tax burden on entrepreneurs.
An anti-record was recorded in January 2025: after a break of almost a month of inactive registers, 61,455 individual entrepreneurs were closed in a few weeks of January. For comparison, only 21,358 entrepreneurs opened their own business.
