Ukraine
- Capital
- Kyiv
- Region
- Eastern Europe
- Population, 2025
- 39 million
- Currency
- UAH
- Area
- 603,500 km²
Across Ukraine's 49 priced cities, one person needs about $718 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $518.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
62out of 100
- Purchasing power25%50
- Safety20%53
- Health care15%56
- Climate10%72
- Air quality10%92
- Connectivity10%49
- Cost10%90
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #53
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
25.8
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
6.9
New York = 100
Purchasing power
83.0
New York = 100
One person
$718
A month, rent included
Net salary
$518
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$336
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$5,866
2025
Growth
+1.8%
2025
Unemployment
9.8%
2021
Inflation
12.7%
2025
Life expectancy
74.7 years
2024
Internet users
82%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 18%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 22%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Inheritance tax
- 18%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 53.1
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 46.9
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 3.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #77 worldwide
- 93
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #50 worldwide
- 91
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +6%
Cities in Ukraine
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Melitopol | 66 | 25.5 | — | — | — | 148.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Eupatoria | 64 | — | — | $404 | — | 107K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Kremenchuk | 64 | 24.2 | $226 | $548 | 106.2 | 225K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 4Sevastopol | 64 | — | — | — | — | 547.8K | Low confidence |
| 5Lugansk | 64 | 25.8 | — | — | — | 397.7K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 6Kerch | 63 | — | — | — | — | 148.9K | Low confidence |
| 7Simferopol | 63 | — | — | — | — | 336.5K | Low confidence |
| 8Berdyansk | 63 | — | — | — | — | 106.3K | Low confidence |
| 9Mykolaiv | 63 | 25.5 | $196 | $422 | 83.5 | 470K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 10Cheremushky | 63 | — | — | — | — | 120K | Low confidence |
| 11Brovary | 62 | 27.8 | $168 | $499 | 97.4 | 109.8K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 12Nikopol' | 62 | 24.4 | $179 | $392 | 82.1 | 105.2K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 13Avtozavodskyi | 62 | — | — | — | — | 157.4K | Low confidence |
| 14Fortechnyi | 62 | — | — | — | — | 167.5K | Low confidence |
| 15Cherkasy | 62 | 23.6 | $246 | $452 | 86.2 | 269.8K | Medium confidence, 19 contributors |
| 16Bila Tserkva | 62 | 26.8 | $202 | $482 | 91.1 | 207.3K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 17Shevchenko | 62 | — | — | — | — | 147.6K | Low confidence |
| 18Kyivskyi | 62 | — | — | — | — | 110.6K | Low confidence |
| 19Kramatorsk | 61 | 27.5 | — | $561 | 90.9 | 147.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 20Pavlohrad | 61 | — | — | — | — | 101.4K | Low confidence |
| 21Ternopil | 61 | 22.3 | $286 | $505 | 93.0 | 225.2K | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 22Rutchenkivskyi | 61 | — | — | — | — | 168K | Low confidence |
| 23Slovyansk | 61 | — | — | — | — | 105.1K | Low confidence |
| 24Chernivtsi | 61 | 24.9 | $315 | $518 | 86.1 | 264.3K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 25Desna | 61 | — | — | — | — | 368.5K | Low confidence |
| 26Vyhurivshchyna-Troyeshchyna | 61 | — | — | — | — | 240K | Low confidence |
| 27Obolon | 61 | — | — | — | — | 239.5K | Low confidence |
| 28Shevchenkivskyi | 61 | — | — | — | — | 220.1K | Low confidence |
| 29Borshchahivka | 61 | — | — | — | — | 179.9K | Low confidence |
| 30Mykilska Borshchahivka | 61 | — | — | — | — | 127.4K | Low confidence |
| 31Lviv | 61 | 30.0 | $510 | $654 | 77.8 | 717.3K | High confidence, 81 contributors |
| 32Pechersk | 61 | — | — | — | — | 100.9K | Low confidence |
| 33Oleksandrivskyi | 61 | — | — | — | — | 100.3K | Low confidence |
| 34Dniprovskyi | 61 | — | — | — | — | 357.9K | Low confidence |
| 35Darnytsya | 61 | — | — | — | — | 343.4K | Low confidence |
| 36Pozniaky | 61 | — | — | — | — | 104.4K | Low confidence |
| 37Chumakivskyi | 61 | — | — | — | — | 103K | Low confidence |
| 38Verhunskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 185.6K | Low confidence |
| 39Tsentralnyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 179.6K | Low confidence |
| 40Kyivskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 139.2K | Low confidence |
| 41Vilkhivskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 126.3K | Low confidence |
| 42Smolyanskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 116.8K | Low confidence |
| 43Skhidni Kvartaly | 60 | — | — | — | — | 102.5K | Low confidence |
| 44Oleksiyivka | 60 | — | — | — | — | 100.5K | Low confidence |
| 45Saltivskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 302.6K | Low confidence |
| 46Novobavarskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 108.1K | Low confidence |
| 47Saltivka | 60 | — | — | — | — | 409.3K | Low confidence |
| 48Chernihiv | 60 | 24.1 | $224 | $413 | 80.6 | 282.7K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 49Shevchenkivskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 220.7K | Low confidence |
| 50Kyivskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 182.9K | Low confidence |
| 51Industrialnyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 157.9K | Low confidence |
| 52Nemyshlyanskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 144.2K | Low confidence |
| 53Rayon KhTZ | 60 | — | — | — | — | 131K | Low confidence |
| 54Kamyanske | 60 | — | — | — | — | 226.8K | Low confidence |
| 55Desnyanskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 179.6K | Low confidence |
| 56Novozavodskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 179.6K | Low confidence |
| 57Nyzhnodniprovsk | 60 | — | — | — | — | 160.1K | Low confidence |
| 58Slobidskyi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 146.9K | Low confidence |
| 59Kharkiv | 60 | 24.8 | $243 | $536 | 99.6 | 1.4M | High confidence, 42 contributors |
| 60Zaporizhzhya | 60 | 24.3 | $208 | $480 | 96.0 | 710.1K | High confidence, 24 contributors |
| 61Rivne | 60 | 21.7 | $258 | $387 | 75.7 | 243.9K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 62Sykhiv | 60 | — | — | — | — | 151.1K | Low confidence |
| 63Kryvyy Rih | 60 | 21.6 | $135 | $350 | 87.1 | 603.9K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 64Korolyov | 60 | — | — | — | — | 114K | Low confidence |
| 65Bohuniya | 60 | — | — | — | — | 147.3K | Low confidence |
| 66Uzhhorod | 60 | 24.7 | $453 | $594 | 82.4 | 115.4K | High confidence, 25 contributors |
| 67Poltava | 59 | 25.2 | $314 | $418 | 69.1 | 279.6K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 68Kiev (Kyiv) | 59 | 31.0 | $640 | $803 | 83.0 | 3M | High confidence, 194 contributors |
| 69Ivano-Frankivsk | 59 | 23.0 | $329 | $434 | 73.6 | 238.2K | High confidence, 28 contributors |
| 70Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovohrad) | 59 | 26.7 | — | $392 | 64.7 | 219.7K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 71Alchevsk | 59 | — | — | — | — | 106.1K | Low confidence |
| 72Mariupol | 59 | 30.3 | — | $474 | 72.4 | 230K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 73Tsentralno-Miskyi | 59 | — | — | — | — | 118.3K | Low confidence |
| 74Kindrativskyi | 59 | — | — | — | — | 101.6K | Low confidence |
| 75Horlivka | 59 | — | — | — | — | 239.8K | Low confidence |
| 76Kovpakivskyi | 59 | — | — | — | — | 142.4K | Low confidence |
| 77Khmelnytskyi | 59 | 25.8 | $336 | $449 | 71.1 | 274.5K | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 78Lutsk | 59 | 24.6 | $325 | $412 | 67.9 | 216K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 79Vinnytsia | 58 | 24.1 | $447 | $476 | 67.2 | 430.1K | High confidence, 29 contributors |
| 80Makiyivka | 58 | — | — | — | — | 339K | Low confidence |
| 81Hirnytskyi | 58 | — | — | — | — | 107.2K | Low confidence |
| 82Zarichnyi | 58 | — | — | — | — | 150.7K | Low confidence |
| 83Kalynivskyi | 58 | — | — | — | — | 103.2K | Low confidence |
| 84Donetsk | 58 | 25.6 | $336 | $628 | 99.5 | 901.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 85Zhytomyr | 57 | 25.6 | $330 | $394 | 63.1 | 261.6K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 86Odessa (Odesa) | 57 | 28.6 | $347 | $487 | 71.6 | 1M | High confidence, 55 contributors |
| 87Livoberezhnyi | 57 | — | — | — | — | 122.2K | Low confidence |
| 88Fastiv | 56 | 25.1 | — | $639 | 109.0 | 44K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 89Kremenets | 56 | 23.6 | $112 | $407 | 99.7 | 21.1K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 90Dnipro | 55 | 30.6 | $418 | $527 | 68.7 | 968.5K | High confidence, 58 contributors |
| 91Pravyi Bereh | 55 | — | — | — | — | 352.1K | Low confidence |
| 92Kalmiuskyi | 55 | — | — | — | — | 101.5K | Low confidence |
| 93Chortkiv | 54 | 24.8 | — | — | — | 28.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 94Truskavets | 54 | 25.3 | — | — | — | 28.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 95Lysychansk | 54 | 27.5 | — | — | — | 93.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 96Konotop | 53 | 25.8 | — | $506 | 85.0 | 84.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 97Kherson | 53 | 24.8 | $146 | $343 | 75.6 | 66K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 98Sumy | 53 | 31.3 | $560 | $381 | 42.3 | 256.5K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 99Bilgorod-Dnistrovskyi | 52 | 28.3 | — | $482 | 76.8 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 100Kolomyia (Kolomyya) | 52 | 25.1 | — | $426 | 72.7 | 60.8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 101Novomoskovsk | 51 | 25.9 | — | $399 | 67.0 | 70.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 102Mukachevo | 51 | 22.9 | $359 | $403 | 65.6 | 85.6K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 103Drohobych | 51 | 25.3 | — | $379 | 64.4 | 73.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 104Murovani Kurylivtsi | 51 | 26.5 | — | $392 | 64.9 | 5.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 105Izmail | 50 | 26.3 | — | $381 | 63.3 | 69.9K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 106Kostiantynivka | 50 | 27.5 | — | $381 | 61.8 | 67.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 107Irpin | 49 | 25.7 | $493 | $488 | 63.4 | 65.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 108Chervonograd | 49 | 24.1 | — | $314 | 54.9 | 64.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 109Severodonetsk | 48 | — | — | — | — | 99.1K | Low confidence |
| 110Uman | 47 | 28.3 | — | $269 | 42.8 | 81.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |