Financial sector news

As of mid-January 2026, there are 2.18 million individual entrepreneurs in Ukraine. In less than a month, their number has increased by 6,000. This is evidenced by data from the OpenDataBot service.

In total, over four years of full-scale war, the number of individual entrepreneurs in Ukraine has increased by 194,000, but the growth rate is gradually slowing down. The largest increase was recorded in 2023 — more than 5%. In 2024, the number of entrepreneurs grew by 3.5%, and in 2025 — by only 0.39%, analysts say.

The restoration of current statistics was facilitated by a decision of the Ministry of Justice: on January 19, 2026, an order came into force, renewing the publication of information from the Unified State Register on companies, sole proprietors, and public organizations in open data format.
At the same time, a significant decline in business was recorded last year. According to the USR, more than 250,000 sole proprietorships closed in the first 11 months of 2025. One in eight closed businesses was located in Kyiv.