REUTERS
Hryvnia banknotes and coins totaling UAH 361.5 billion (US$12.7 billion) were in cash circulation in Ukraine at the beginning of 2018, which was UAH 20.5 billion ($718 million), or 6%, up from the indicator at the beginning of 2017, according to infographics published on the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Facebook page.
In particular, some 2.98 billion banknotes worth UAH 359.4 billion ($12.6 billion) and 12.97 billion coins worth UAH 2.07 billion ($72.5 million) were in circulation as of January 1, 2018, it said.
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Coins whose face value is one and 10 kopiykas prevailed too, accounting for 18.79% and 29.36%, respectively.
There were 70 banknotes and 293 small coins in circulation per capita, it said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the country's monetary base shrank by 0.7% in January-November 2017, to UAH 378.746 billion ($13.3 billion), while the money supply, or M3, increased by 2.4%, to UAH 1.127 trillion ($39.5 billion).
In 2016, the monetary base grew by 13.6%, while the money supply soared by 10.8%.