The number of individual entrepreneurs in the field of information technology has increased by 45% over the past three years, while the total number of private entrepreneurs has decreased by 8%.This is reported by Opendatabot, a platform for open source data.
“The Ministry of Social Policy has introduced a bill proposing more stringent control over the individual entrepreneurs, however, we have analyzed the data and see that today the most active type of business using individual form is the IT sector itself,” said Olexandr Ivankin, Founder of Opendatabot.
So, since 2017, the total number of individual entrepreneurs has decreased by 164 thousand entrepreneurs (8%). In 2017, there were registered 2 million individual entrepreneurs, while at the moment there are only 1.8 million.
At the same time, the number of individual entrepreneurs in the IT sphere increased by 40.7 thousand IT-entrepreneurs, or by 45%. Their share among other private entrepreneurs increased from 5% to 7.5%.
At present, the largest share of IT entrepreneurs is in Kharkiv, Kyiv and Lviv regions. There it is more than 14% of them.
