Government budget and revenue in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine: official figures
The consolidated budget of Kharkiv Oblast (the oblast budget plus its district and community budgets) received 47.6 billion hryvnias of revenue in 2025, 7.6% more than the 44.2 billion hryvnias of 2024 and 6.3% of the revenue of all regional and Kyiv budgets.
How does Kharkiv Oblast spend its budget?
The 2025 spending plan of the consolidated budget of Kharkiv Oblast, as amended by December, was 54.8 billion hryvnias; education took 31.0%, health care 4.8% and social protection 5.8%.
Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copyMore figures
- Own revenue, excluding transfers from the state budget, made up 65.8% of the revenue of the consolidated budget of Kharkiv Oblast in 2025 (31.3 billion hryvnias), 8th lowest of 25 regions. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- Personal income tax brought 17.9 billion hryvnias into the consolidated budget of Kharkiv Oblast in 2025, 57.2% of its own revenue. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- In 2025 local property and land taxes and land rent yielded 1.7 billion hryvnias in Kharkiv Oblast, and the single tax paid by small businesses 5.5 billion hryvnias. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- Transfers from the state budget to the consolidated budget of Kharkiv Oblast totalled 15.8 billion hryvnias in 2025, including an education subvention of 5.5 billion hryvnias and a basic subsidy of 2.4 billion hryvnias. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- Housing and communal services accounted for 20.7% of planned 2025 spending in Kharkiv Oblast, public order and civil protection 2.4% and the economy, including roads and transport, 21.7%. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
How Kharkiv Oblast compares with other oblasts
Change in local budget revenue, 2025 vs 2024 (%) (2025)
Kharkiv Oblast ranks 20 of 25, highest first.
| Rank | Region | Change in local budget revenue, 2025 vs 2024 (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | +11.8% |
| 18 | Chernihiv Oblast | +11.4% |
| 19 | Zaporizhzhia Oblast | +8.1% |
| 20 | Kharkiv Oblast | +7.6% |
| 21 | Mykolaiv Oblast | +7.3% |
| 22 | Kyiv | +3.4% |
| 23 | Kherson Oblast | -13.8% |
Own revenue as a share of local budget revenue (%) (2025)
Kharkiv Oblast ranks 18 of 25, highest first.
| Rank | Region | Own revenue as a share of local budget revenue (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | Ternopil Oblast | 69.1% |
| 16 | Volyn Oblast | 67.3% |
| 17 | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 66.1% |
| 18 | Kharkiv Oblast | 65.8% |
| 19 | Zakarpattia Oblast | 64.2% |
| 20 | Chernivtsi Oblast | 62.6% |
| 21 | Rivne Oblast | 62.3% |
Education share of planned local spending (%) (2025)
Kharkiv Oblast ranks 23 of 25, highest first.
| Rank | Region | Education share of planned local spending (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Zaporizhzhia Oblast | 39.1% |
| 20 | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 38.2% |
| 21 | Kherson Oblast | 37.5% |
| 22 | Kyiv | 33.4% |
| 23 | Kharkiv Oblast | 31.0% |
| 24 | Luhansk Oblast | 29.3% |
| 25 | Donetsk Oblast | 25.3% |
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Sources
- Ministry of Finance of Ukraine: Open Budget public API (localBudgetData): revenue of the consolidated budgets of each oblast, Kyiv and the largest city communities in 2024 and 2025, and their 2025 spending plans by function (saved API responses, one CSV per budget and query), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 8a856cffe239…)
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