Despite the war, the number of entrepreneurs in Ukraine is growing.

According to Opendatabot, the current number of small and medium-sized businesses surpasses pre-war numbers. The highest rate over the past three years was recorded in June 2023, when 31,477 new FOPs (private entrepreneurs) were registered.

The biggest difference between the opening and closing of new FOPs was recorded in the front-line regions and those where hostilities were or are being waged: the Donetsk region lost 8,200 entrepreneurs, Kharkiv region 7,100, Kherson region 4,500, Luhansk region 3,700, and the Zaporizhia region lost more than 2,000 FOPs.

The largest increase was recorded in Kyiv, with 12,900 registrations. The Lviv region received 12,300 entrepreneurs, and the Dnipropetrovsk region added 8,600 FOPs.

As of the beginning of autumn, more than two million FOPs are working in Ukraine. From the beginning of the full-scale war, from April 2022 to September 2023, 290,910 entrepreneurs have ceased operations.