UDC 338.45(477); JEL Е23
Ishchuk, S. O. (2025). Tendentsiyi rozvytku promyslovoho sektoru ekonomiky Ukrayiny: rehional'nyy vymir [Trends in the development of Ukraine’s industrial sector: a regional dimension]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 117 (3), 125-135. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/1562-0905-2025-3-11 [in Ukrainian].
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Authors



Ishchuk Svitlana Oleksiyivna

Doctor of Economics, Professor

Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Head of the Department of problems of the real sector of regions' economy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: iso.ird@ukr.net, (032)270-7093, (066)212-3829

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Resume

Despite immense losses incurred (over USD 150 billion) due to Russian armed aggression, industry remains a fundamental sector of the national economy, accounting for 17.34% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2024 (compared to 20.39% in 2021). Accordingly, the study aims to assess the trends of structural and spatial changes in the industrial sector of Ukraine’s regions amid the full-scale war. The article analyzes the development dynamics of domestic industry during 2022-2024 and in Q1 2025. Attention is focused on industries related to ensuring the functioning of the defense-industrial complex and which are among the TOP-10 in terms of the growth rate of sold production volume. Vectors of transformation in the structure of the manufacturing industry have been established, specifically an increase in the share of machine building and, conversely, a significant reduction in the share of metallurgy. A comparative assessment of changes in the export orientation level of manufacturing industries, as well as the innovation activity of industrial enterprises, was conducted. The directions of spatial transformation of Ukraine’s industry are diagnosed based on the results of calculating the regions’ share in the structure of sold industrial products and the share of processing in the added value of their economies. The relationship between the dynamics of sold products and employment dynamics in the manufacturing industry of Ukraine’s regions has been verified. The level of labor productivity (as the ratio between the volume of produced goods and the number of hired employees in full-time equivalent at economic entities) is determined across manufacturing industries and regions. In conclusion, a tendency towards gradual equalization of industrial potential concentration is revealed, moving towards central and western regions, which is partly caused by the relocation of enterprises from frontline regions, but is primarily a consequence of the general shift of business activity poles to safer regions.

Keywords:

industry, volume of sold products, manufacturing industries, regions, dynamics, structure, employment, labor productivity

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