REUTERS
Sales of industrial goods in Ukraine January through September 2015 totaled UAH 1.075 trillion, which was 24.4%, or UAH 211.354 billion, up on the same period last year, when industrial sales amounted to UAH 864.621 billion, according to the State Statistics Service.
The service said that the data did not include information from the occupied Crimea, Sevastopol and part of Donbas.
Sales in the processing industry, which accounted for 68.2% of total sales, stood at UAH 733.523 billion. Sales of electricity, gas, conditioned air, which together accounted for 18.2% of overall sales, totaled UAH 195.394 billion. Sales in the mining industry and quarry development, which accounted for 12.4%, amounted to UAH 134.232 billion.
Dnipropetrovsk region accounted for the highest sales of industrial goods in the nine months, which was 20.3%, or UAH 218.287 billion. The share of Donetsk region was 11.8%, or UAH 127.276 billion (information is subject to updating), and that of Zaporizhia region was 8.9%, or UAH 95.803 billion.
As UNIAN reported earlier, sales of industrial goods in January-August 2015 stood at UAH 951.468 billion, which was 22.3%, or UAH 179.829 billion, up year-over-year (UAH 771.647 billion).
In 2014, Ukraine sold industrial goods worth UAH 1.186 trillion, which was 6.73%, or UAH 74.745 billion, up on 2013.