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4.4.3 Retail sector dynamics
Ukraine’s retail trade in July 2018 alone increased by 3.9% from June 2018 and by 6.6% from July 2017.
Ukraine’s retail trade in January-July 2018 grew by 6% in comparable prices from January-July 2017, the State Statistics Service reported.
The largest increase in retail trade in the seven months of 2018 compared to the same period in 2017 was registered in Luhansk region (23.4%), Zakarpattia (10.9%), Poltava region (10.5%) and Donetsk region (10.3%).
The leaders in terms of monetary indicators of retail trade for the period were the city of Kyiv (UAH98.607bn), Dnipropetrovsk region (UAH45.865bn), Kharkiv region (UAH39.965bn), Odesa region (UAH37.456bn), Kyiv region (UAH35.582bn), Lviv region (UAH31.148bn), and Zaporizhia region (UAH21.363bn UAH).
The report does not include data from the temporarily occupied areas in Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, and partly Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Retail trade in Ukrainian-controlled areas in Donetsk region in January-July 2018 increased by 10.3% year-over-year, to UAH15.078bn, while its growth in Luhansk region was 23.4%, to UAH4.314bn.
The statistics service says that retail outlets in July 2018 saw a 6.4% increase in turnover compared to July 2017 and a 3.9% increase compared to June 2018. Their turnover was UAH55.07bn in July 2018 and UAH363.534bn in January-July 2018.
Wholesale trade in the seven months of 2018 increased by 5% year-over-year, to UAH1.190 trillion.
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