Capital investment in Ukraine in the first half of 2015 fell by 9.2 percent, whereas in the first quarter the decline was 14.8 percent, and in 2014 - 24.1 percent, the State Statistics Service has reporte.
The
agency said that in the first quarter of 2014 the decline was 23.1 percent, in
the first half of the year – 17.5 percent, and over the nine months – 23
percent.
According
to the State Statistics Service, in January-June 2015 around UAH 98.72 billion
of capital investment was used (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of
Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone).
Regionally,
the largest reduction in capital investment in the first half of 2015 was recorded
in the conflict zone in Donetsk and Luhansk regions by 66.5 percent and 86.8
percent respectively, while the decline for the past year in these areas was 56
percent and 60.8 percent.
The ATO
zone is followed by Poltava region (a decline of 42.6 percent), Ivano-Frankivsk
(34.2 percent), Zaporizhia (31.7 percent), Vinnytsia (30.5 percent), and
Kherson regions (30 percent).
According
to statistics, capital investment for the period in Kyiv grew by 28.3 percent,
in Volyn region by 75.1 percent, Khmelnytsky region by 23.1 percent, Sumy
region by 13.5 percent, Mykolaiv by 3.1 percent, and Kyiv region 1 percent.
As for
sectors, the largest drop in the first half of 2015 occurred in temporary
accommodation and catering by 37.5 percent, industry – 28.1 percent, wholesale
and retail trade – 25.9 percent, transport, postal and courier activities –
24.1 percent, financial and insurance activities – 21.3 percent, construction –
20.6 percent, and real estate transactions – 20.9 percent.
