The Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture has preliminarily estimated Ukraine\u2019s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2025 at 2.2%.<\/p>\n
The ministry noted that in 2025 Ukraine\u2019s economy operated amid continued attacks on energy infrastructure, complex logistics, and high security risks.<\/p>\n
At the same time, growth was supported by key sectors, including domestic trade, construction, and manufacturing\u2014particularly the production of defense goods, pharmaceuticals, metallurgy, and construction materials.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2025, growth among key economic activities was driven by domestic trade, construction\u2014thanks to recovery projects\u2014and manufacturing, especially defense production and metallurgy. Government business-support programs and budgetary investments in the restoration of critical infrastructure also played an important role,\u201d said Oleksii Sobolev, Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture.<\/p>\n
Among the factors supporting economic activity in 2025, the ministry highlighted the implementation of recovery and business development programs financed by international financial assistance, including the Affordable Loans 5\u20137\u20139% program, under which entrepreneurs received new loans totaling approximately UAH 93.7 billion.<\/p>\n
Positive dynamics were also underpinned by rising household consumption amid wage growth. As of January 6, 2026, the average nominal salary based on job vacancies had increased by 30.8% year-on-year to UAH 27,530, while the average salary indicated in r\u00e9sum\u00e9s rose by 39.9% to UAH 30,216.<\/p>\n
In addition, significant capital expenditures from the state budget were directed toward restoring critical infrastructure, housing programs, and procurement for the defense-industrial complex.<\/p>\n
Within the industrial structure, the role of higher value-added activities continued to grow. Over the first 11 months of 2025, the share of machine building in total industrial sales increased to 9.1%, up from 5.7% in 2021. Capacity utilization also improved, particularly in pharmaceuticals, furniture manufacturing, woodworking, food processing, and textiles.<\/p>\n
Economic momentum was constrained by Russia\u2019s large-scale missile attacks on electricity generation and gas infrastructure, lower harvests of certain crops due to adverse weather conditions, logistical challenges, and weakening demand, particularly in agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":150978,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-150977","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/150977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=150977"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=150977"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=150977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}