Availability of Competitive Sectors

Agrarian sector.

Agrarian sector is one of the most prospective sectors in Ukraine, generating more than 20% of country’s GDP. Ukraine is in the top five of the largest grain exporters and is the #1 sunflower oil exporter.

Complex machine building.

Ukraine is a traditional leader in production of machinery, cars, and airplanes, and is also one of the six space equipment manufacturing countries in the world.

 Energy.

Ukraine produces about 20 billion m3 of the natural gas per year, and has about 1 000 billion m3 of discovered natural gas reserves. Ukraine has a huge potential for producing energy from renewable sources and implementing energy-saving technologies. Ukraine’s “green” energy tariffs are more attractive than in many other countries.

IT sector.

Ukraine is the 5-th biggest market of the IT outsource services, which is growing at a fastest pace. The market volume had exceeded 1 billion USD in 2010.

Tourism.

Ukraine has huge unrealized tourism potential due to the variety of tourist attractions: ski resorts in the Carpathian Mountains, Crimea, Black Sea beaches, medieval cities and castles, ethnic, music and movie festivals and many others, which attract 20 million tourists annually.