Since the beginning of the year, more than 225 thousand new individual entrepreneurs have been registered in Ukraine. This is almost in line with last year's figures, but the number of closed businesses increased by 11%. This is reported by Opendatabot, citing data from the Unified State Register.
In the first nine months of 2025, 225,046 new individual entrepreneurs were opened. After a relative decline at the beginning of the year, the pace of entrepreneurial activity gradually increased: in January, 21.4 thousand businesses were registered, and in September - a record 29.6 thousand.
At the same time, 213,293 entrepreneurs closed their activities, which is 11% more than in 2024. More than 45,000 of them were registered last year alone, which indicates the vulnerability of new businesses. Despite this, the balance remains positive: this year, 15,000 more entrepreneurs appeared than ceased operations.
The largest number of new individual entrepreneurs was registered in Kyiv (30.5 thousand), Dnipropetrovsk region (22.2 thousand) and Lviv region (17.2 thousand). This was followed by Kyiv (16.7 thousand) and Odesa regions (16.4 thousand). The largest number of closures was also recorded in the capital (27.5 thousand), Dnipropetrovsk (19.1 thousand) and Kharkiv regions (17.7 thousand).
Traditionally, the most popular sector for new entrepreneurs remains retail trade, accounting for 29% of the total. Businesses in wholesale trade, IT, restaurant business, and information services are also actively registered, but these sectors also saw the most closures.
The activity of foreigners is also growing: in 2025, non-residents registered 1,648 new individual entrepreneurs. Most of them are citizens of Azerbaijan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Moldova, and Armenia.
