Odesa Region Ranked Third in Ukraine by the Number of Self-Employed Professionals

Odesa region ranked third in terms of the number of self-employed people, behind Kyiv and Dnipropetrovs'k, according to the State Tax Service.

This was reported by analysts of the Opendatabot platform, who counted 2,400 such entrepreneurs in the region. There are 4.2 thousand in Kyiv and 2.5 thousand in Dnipropetrovska oblast.

As for other regions in the South of Ukraine, there are 800 in Mykolaiv region and 500 in Kherson region. According to analysts, 28.3 thousand professionals engaged in independent professional activities - i.e., the self-employed - were registered in Ukraine as of the beginning of June 2025. According to experts, this is a record figure for the last five years. The peak number of such specialists was previously recorded in November 2021 - 27.9 thousand. However, in December, their number decreased by 700 people, after which the figure began to grow again, albeit with a pause in the first months of the full-scale invasion. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the number of self-employed professionals has increased by 1,100, or about 4%.

The self-employed paid UAH 292.3 million in taxes to the budget in the first five months of 2025. This is 33% more than in the same period last year. It is worth noting that in Kherson, Volyn, and Kyiv regions, the amount of taxes paid almost doubled. In total, such specialists paid UAH 603.2 million in taxes in 2024. This is 1.6 times more than in 2023 and 1.2 times more than before the full-scale campaign.

The leaders in terms of taxes paid are Kyiv - UAH 140.5 million (23% of the total amount), Lviv region - UAH 49.8 million (8%), and Dnipropetrovs'k region - UAH 49.6 million (8%). However, while in Lviv region this amount was paid by 1.3 thousand people, in Dnipropetrovs'k region 2.5 thousand self-employed people paid almost the same amount.

The lowest average amounts are in Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson regions. However, as experts emphasized, these calculations are conditional - it is impossible to give an accurate estimate, because it is not known how many of the people who are certified as self-employed actually work and receive income.

Кирило Бойко