Government budget and revenue in Kyiv, Ukraine: official figures
The budget of the city of Kyiv received 105.2 billion hryvnias of revenue in 2025, 3.4% more than the 101.7 billion hryvnias of 2024 and 14.0% of the revenue of all regional and Kyiv budgets.
How does Kyiv spend its budget?
The 2025 spending plan of the Kyiv city budget, as amended by December, was 115.4 billion hryvnias; education took 33.4%, health care 6.9% and social protection 10.5%.
Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copyMore figures
- Own revenue, excluding transfers from the state budget, made up 91.8% of the revenue of the Kyiv city budget in 2025 (96.5 billion hryvnias), the highest of 25 regions. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- Personal income tax brought 46.9 billion hryvnias into the Kyiv city budget in 2025, 48.6% of its own revenue. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- In 2025 local property and land taxes and land rent yielded 9.0 billion hryvnias in Kyiv, and the single tax paid by small businesses 15.9 billion hryvnias. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- Transfers from the state budget to the Kyiv city budget totalled 8.4 billion hryvnias in 2025, including an education subvention of 6.7 billion hryvnias. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
- Housing and communal services accounted for 11.2% of planned 2025 spending in Kyiv, public order and civil protection 0.2% and the economy, including roads and transport, 29.1%. Source: Ministry of Finance of Ukraine · saved copy
How Kyiv compares with other city with special statuss
Change in local budget revenue, 2025 vs 2024 (%) (2025)
Kyiv ranks 22 of 25, highest first.
| Rank | Region | Change in local budget revenue, 2025 vs 2024 (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Zaporizhzhia Oblast | +8.1% |
| 20 | Kharkiv Oblast | +7.6% |
| 21 | Mykolaiv Oblast | +7.3% |
| 22 | Kyiv | +3.4% |
| 23 | Kherson Oblast | -13.8% |
| 24 | Donetsk Oblast | -19.6% |
| 25 | Luhansk Oblast | -30.0% |
Own revenue as a share of local budget revenue (%) (2025)
Kyiv ranks 1 of 25, highest first.
| Rank | Region | Own revenue as a share of local budget revenue (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyiv | 91.8% |
| 2 | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 81.4% |
| 3 | Poltava Oblast | 80.4% |
| 4 | Kyiv Oblast | 78.9% |
| 5 | Lviv Oblast | 77.6% |
| 6 | Cherkasy Oblast | 76.1% |
| 7 | Kirovohrad Oblast | 74.6% |
Education share of planned local spending (%) (2025)
Kyiv ranks 22 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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