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4.3 Fixed investment
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Investments in fixed capital,
chg yoy 1.6% -50.5% 3.9% 7.1% 0.9% -6.7% -23.0% -9.3% 6.0% 12.0%
Industrial output, chg yoy -5.2% -21.9% 11.2% 8.0% -0.7% -4.3% -10.1% -13.0% 2.1% -0.1%
Capital investment in Ukraine increased by 26.5% year-on-year in January-June vs a 22.5% y/y growth in the first half of 2017, according to the Ukrstat state statistics service.
Capital investment in Ukraine in 2017 increased by 22.1% y/y, growth in the first nine months of last year was 20.7% y/y, in the first half of the previous year was 22.5% y/y, Interfax reported on August 28.
In January-June, UAH206.9bn ($7.4bn) in capital investment was injected, excluding the territories of annexed Crimea, Sevastopol and rebel-controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Meanwhile, the largest increase in capital investments was recorded in January-June in the Donetsk region (2.1 times), the Chernihiv region (1.7 times), the Zakarpattia region (by 35.9%), the Dnipropetrovsk region (35.2%), the Rivne region (34.9%), the Vinnytsia region (30.5%).
4.4 Labour and income
4.4.1 Labour market, unemployment dynamics
Source: ICU
Unemployment rate (%)
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 EFF
6.4 6.4 8.8 8.1 7.9 7.5 7.2 9.3 9.1 9.3 9.4 9.3 8.8
Over 400,000 Ukrainians have left the country since late March 2018 to find work abroad, according to Ukrainianpeopleleaks, an online platform tracking migrant workers. Two Ukrainians leave their country every minute in search of work, the platform says, referring to comments by Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo. A total of 9mn Ukrainians have become economic migrants, the Social Policy Ministry’s estimates.
The number of people in jobs in Ukraine grew for the first time since 2013
in the first half of this year, the acting head of the State Employment Service of Ukraine Valeriy Yaroshenko said, Interfax reported on July 31. The number of employed Ukrainians went up by 0.9% y/y in the first six months of this year Yaroshenko said. "We are witnessing that the labour market is actually demonstrating some kind of stabilization for the first half of 2018. The growth in
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