{"id":1234988,"date":"2025-10-17T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1234988"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:24:34","slug":"imf-holds-modest-growth-forecast-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/imf-holds-modest-growth-forecast-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF holds modest growth forecast for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has maintained its forecast for Ukraine\u2019s real GDP growth at 2.0% in 2025 and 4.5% in 2026, in line with its April projections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is stated in the IMF\u2019s updated\u00a0<em>World Economic Outlook (WEO)<\/em>\u00a0report, presented in Washington on Tuesday by IMF Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-economy\/4047299-imf-holds-modest-growth-forecast-for-ukraine.html\"> an Ukrinform correspondent reports.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the section on European economies, Ukraine\u2019s real GDP growth is projected to reach 2.0% in 2025 and 4.5% in 2026, repeating the figures from the April&nbsp;<em>WEO<\/em>, except that the Fund has revised down Ukraine\u2019s 2024 GDP from 3.5% to 2.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consumer price index forecast for Ukraine remains largely unchanged \u2014 12.6% this year and 7.6% next year (the April report projected 7.7% for 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the current account balance outlook has worsened noticeably \u2014 now expected at -16.5% of GDP in 2025 and -12.6% in 2025, compared with -15.9% and -10.6% in the previous projections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMF also forecasts a slight uptick in unemployment, from 11.5% to 11.6% this year, before easing to 10.2% in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As previously reported, the IMF expects global economic growth to remain modest this year and next, though the updated forecast suggests a slight improvement compared to previous estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/u-s-to-allow-qatar-to-build-air-force-facility-in-idaho\/\">U.S. to allow Qatar to build air force facility in Idaho<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has maintained its forecast for Ukraine\u2019s real &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1234989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415,36422,55],"tags":[76,78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1234988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","category-11473-news-en-3","category-ukraine-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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