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Business & Recovery
Industries and companies, and the work and challenges of recovery and reconstruction.
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Ukrainian-Language Books Approach 90%: Ukraine’s Publishing Industry in Numbers
Ukraine published 15,069 books and pamphlets in 2025, with Ukrainian-language titles accounting for close to 90% of them. Drawing on statistics from the Book Chamber of Ukraine and the text of the relevant laws, this article covers the drop in the number of titles published to less than half in 2022, the ban on importing books from Russia and Belarus that took effect in 2023, and support measures such as the “єКнига” (yeKnyha) book-purchase grant for 18-year-olds and rent subsidies for bookshops.
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Ukraine’s Export Rankings | Its Main Trading Partners, and Current Challenges
This article was published in July 2024, and the figures in it have not been updated since. The weight of each industry in wartime is covered in Ukraine’s Industries in Wartime — The Weight of Agriculture, Manufacturing, Services, and Energy, and the assumptions to keep in mind when reading economic statistics are covered in Ukraine’s Economic Figures in Wartime — Telling Apart Scope, Exchange Rates, and Estimates. Ukraine is a country with abundant resources and vast farmland, and the industries supporting its economy are wide-ranging. Ukraine’s exports are highly regarded…
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Five Rounds of Cost Estimates for Reconstruction, from $348.5 Billion to $587.7 Billion
The “Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA),” compiled jointly by the World Bank, the Government of Ukraine, the European Commission and the United Nations, has been published five times since 2022. The amount needed for reconstruction and recovery over the next ten years has grown from $348.5 billion in the first edition to $587.7 billion in the fifth. This article looks at what the damage, loss, and needs figures each actually count, along with the breakdown by sector and oblast.
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Ukraine’s Computer Services Exports: The United States Is the Largest Destination, Malta Second
According to National Bank of Ukraine statistics, computer services exports totaled $6.655 billion in 2025, of which 35.9% went to the United States. Malta ranked second, the United Kingdom third, and Cyprus fourth. The destination country is counted by where the trading partner is a resident, not necessarily the country where the software is actually used. This article looks, by country, at the growth since 2010 and the movements since the full-scale invasion.
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Wheat Harvest and Area Both Down 30%: Ukraine’s Three Big Crops, by the Numbers
According to statistics from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ukraine's wheat production fell from 32.18 million tonnes in 2021 to 22.44 million tonnes in 2024, and the harvested area shrank by almost the same proportion. This article lays out production, area and yield for 2021-2024 for wheat, maize and sunflower seed together, and explains how the statistical coverage changed starting in 2022.
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Ukraine’s Sunflower Oil: the Seeds Mostly Stay Home
Ukraine harvests more than 10 million tons of sunflower seeds a year, but only a small fraction is exported as raw seed — most is processed into oil and meal domestically before export. This article sets out the volumes of seed, oil, and exports from USDA estimates, Ukraine's share of world exports, and the export duty that has applied to seed since 1999.
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98% of the Harvest Comes from Households, Not Companies: Ukraine’s Walnuts and Exports
In 2024 Ukraine exported 23,318 tonnes of shelled walnuts, mostly to European countries such as France and Romania. According to the State Statistics Service, more than 98% of the harvest comes not from agricultural enterprises but from residents' households. This article looks at the difference between in-shell and shelled walnuts, how “ranked Nth in the world” comparisons work, and the trade relationship with Japan, based on statistics available as of September 2026.
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Two-Thirds of Ukraine’s Vineyards Are in Odesa Oblast: Wine Regions and Geographical Indications
Ukraine's vineyards covered 27,000 hectares in 2024, with about two-thirds in Odesa Oblast. This article looks, through statistics, legislation, and the intellectual-property office's register, at the Shabo settlement founded by Swiss settlers in the 19th century, the new wine law that took effect in January 2026, and the six wine geographical indications registered since 2023.