Ukraine's East/West Economic Divide (Gross Regional Product Per Capita of the Regions(Oblasts))

Gross regional product per capita in US dollars (2008):

  more than 10 000: Kyiv City

  5 000 - 10 000: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

  4 000 - 5 000: Donetsk Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast

  3 000 - 4 000: Kiev Oblast, Odessa Oblast, Luhansk Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast; Sevastopol City

  2 500 - 3 000: Cherkasy Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Kirovohrad Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast; Autonomous Republic of Crimea

  2 000 - 2 500: Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast

  less than 2 000: Chernivtsi Oblast, Ternopil Oblast

Is Ukraine's working population being suppressed by the less dynamic half as some are saying?

GRP per capita (nominal) 2004-2013

List of Ukrainian administrative divisions by GRP per capita (in USD.)^[1]

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	930	1,260	1,604	2,094	2,638	1,788	2,080	2,452	2,837	2,952
Cherkasy Oblast	912	1,303	1,625	2,046	2,768	1,847	2,183	2,655	3,073	3,274
Chernihiv Oblast	970	1,263	1,527	1,996	2,508	1,684	1,941	2,438	2,765	2,828
Chernivtsi Oblast	675	908	1,119	1,459	1,855	1,204	1,378	1,666	1,818	1,896
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	1,618	2,324	3,017	4,132	5,870	3,560	4,374	5,298	5,587	5,797
Donetsk Oblast	1,826	2,437	3,114	3,999	4,942	2,969	3,653	4,590	4,868	4,733
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	985	1,349	1,615	1,991	2,457	1,602	1,867	2,441	2,925	3,005
Kharkiv Oblast	1,350	1,761	2,248	3,098	4,043	2,724	2,979	3,522	3,750	3,894
Kherson Oblast	854	1,115	1,335	1,608	2,268	1,573	1,808	2,140	2,241	2,416
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	855	1,125	1,391	1,802	2,265	1,512	1,714	2,174	2,493	2,523
Kiev Oblast	1,250	1,692	2,162	2,977	3,910	2,794	3,294	4,335	5,066	5,003
Kirovohrad Oblast	963	1,247	1,529	1,890	2,566	1,681	1,957	2,508	2,763	3,194
Luhansk Oblast	1,123	1,586	1,997	2,698	3,481	2,126	2,494	3,157	3,247	3,066
Lviv Oblast	1,014	1,299	1,653	2,161	2,639	1,809	2,061	2,580	3,052	3,120
Mykolaiv Oblast	1,208	1,522	1,934	2,421	3,071	2,188	2,555	2,947	3,108	3,422
Odessa Oblast	1,321	1,682	2,055	2,738	3,728	2,611	2,841	3,243	3,387	3,643
Poltava Oblast	1,662	2,258	2,837	3,663	4,267	2,867	3,737	4,439	4,808	5,000
Rivne Oblast	905	1,223	1,529	1,920	2,319	1,501	1,737	2,107	2,360	2,377
Sumy Oblast	941	1,268	1,554	2,029	2,586	1,749	1,980	2,494	2,718	2,942
Ternopil Oblast	661	898	1,152	1,487	1,839	1,314	1,476	1,896	2,083	2,104
Vinnytsia Oblast	883	1,164	1,451	1,814	2,290	1,559	1,806	2,238	2,534	2,790
Volyn Oblast	897	1,226	1,465	1,923	2,343	1,514	1,754	2,140	2,409	2,479
Zakarpattia Oblast	797	1,048	1,302	1,673	2,017	1,294	1,547	1,820	2,138	2,132
Zaporizhia Oblast	1,521	2,084	2,647	3,569	4,411	2,646	2,981	3,472	3,836	3,819
Zhytomyr Oblast	826	1,084	1,314	1,680	2,192	1,465	1,842	2,164	2,446	2,538
Kyiv City	4,348	5,617	6,972	9,860	11,694	7,841	8,875	10,041	12,192	13,687
Sevastopol City	1,099	1,454	1,996	2,566	3,150	2,178	2,578	3,094	3,237	3,598
Ukraine	1,367	1,829	2,303	3,068	3,891	2,545	2,974	3,588	4,005	4,188

Culled by Janvier T. Chando, author of “ Ukraine: The Tug-of-war between Russia and the West https://amazon.com/dp/B0B2T4XWWD/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_YWGHMQF2P1RE0PPJXH0…