"Code of the Economy": the first comprehensive study of IT’s impact on Ukraine’s economy
DataDriven, together with IT Ukraine Association, has developed one of the first comprehensive analyses of IT’s systemic impact on Ukraine’s economy
The study goes beyond sector-level metrics to quantify the broader economic effects of digitalisation, including employment multipliers, value creation, and resilience under stress conditions
Key insights:
🔷 $7.85 billion — total IT market volume, including $1.25 billion in the domestic market
🔷 $6.6 billion — IT exports, 41.6% of Ukraine’s total service exports
🔷 3.2% of GDP — IT’s share in the national economy
🔷 800,000 — direct and indirect jobs in IT and related industries
🔷 UAH 50.5 billion — taxes paid by the IT sector
Ukrainian IT exports are global and resilient. 80% of revenues come from 10 partner countries. Key markets are Europe ($3.39 billion, 51%) and the United States ($2.4 billion, 36%). The top 10 also includes the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Poland, Estonia, Cyprus, and the UAE. Ukrainian engineers compete in the world’s most demanding markets.
IT is transforming every sector of the economy:
🌾 Agriculture: digital solutions boost productivity by 10–30% and reduce resource use (including water and fertilizers) by up to 40%
🛒 Trade & retail: e-commerce reached $6.56 billion, while cashless payments hit a record 95.5%
🏭 Industry: automation and digital twins in Industry 4.0 reduce equipment downtime by 30–50% and increase output by 10–20%
🎓 Education: EdTech solutions reduce learning time by 40–60% and improve student outcomes by 25%
🏥 Healthcare: MedTech covers 37 million users of electronic health records, while digital infrastructure ensures access to care for 6 million internally displaced people regardless of location
🏛 GovTech: “Diia” — 23 million users and over 160 online services without queues or paperwork
The study confirms: the higher the level of digitalization in an industry, the better it withstands external shocks. During the full-scale war, the High-IT segment grew by +19.9%, while Low-IT grew by +4.7% — a fourfold difference.
Read the full study via the link https://lnkd.in/d4MYN7fq