The Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) has analyzed online services created based on open state data and found that up to 16 million people use these resources every month. The analysis of the number of open data users was conducted using the SimilarWeb platform between November 2024 and January 2025.
As part of the open data policy, government agencies publish large amounts of machine-readable data for free access, and businesses and civil society organizations transform them into useful services for citizens. After analyzing the existing online services in Ukraine, BRDO experts have conditionally divided them into two main groups:
- services based on open data, which include processing, analysis and presentation of information in the form of open data (for example, YouControl is a market analytics service that provides users with company databases created by combining state registers and data analysis);
- services that use open data to improve user experience or create additional services (for example, Auto.Ria is a car sales website that contains data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs registers).
According to the results of the BRDO’s analysis, during the three months from November 2024 to January 2025, 3.3 to 5.5 million people used services based on open data every month, and 9.1 to 10.7 million users used services that use open data. The total number of users of online services that use open data in one way or another ranged from 11.6 to 16.2 million people per month, which is 39-55% of all Ukrainian Internet users.
“I myself am a user of services that use data published by the state. They help me both in my work – in analyzing markets and policy effectiveness – and in my personal life – when I need to check a car, company, etc. The more data the government publishes, the better decisions people and businesses will be able to make,” commented Ihor Samokhodskyi, Head of ICT Sector at the BRDO.
The top five most popular categories of services created on the basis or using open data over the past three months were led by the following:
- Medicine – services that help choose medicines, such as Tabletki.ua;
- Business – services that allow you to collect information about competitors and partners, for example, YouControl or Opendatabot;
- Cars – services that help you buy a car or pay a fine for traffic offenses, such as AUTO.RIA or Shtraf UA;
- Transport – services that help you choose the best route by public transport, for example, EasyWay;
- Jurisprudence – services that help you navigate regulations and court decisions, such as ZakonOnline and Babusya.
The leading services in the Medicine category are Tabletki.ua, a platform for searching and booking medicines in pharmacies, Compendium, a drug reference book, and Liky Kontrol, a resource for checking medicines. These services use the State Register of Medicines to provide information about medicines and search for analogs that are sold under other names.
Popular services in the Business category include YouControl, an online analytical system for business analytics, market research, and counterparty verification, Opendatabot, a public data search service, and Clarity Project, a platform for accessing procurement and corporate information. All of them integrate many state registers to create profiles of legal entities.
This year, for the first time, the analysis included Auto.Ria, a vehicle marketplace that leads in the Cars category. As an additional service, the service offers car checks in the databases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The list of popular services in each category is available here (only in Ukrainian).
The Deduplicated Audience indicator of the SimilarWeb platform was used to estimate the number of users of services based on open data. The services were categorized by topic, and to consider the overlap of audiences within each category, the number of users was determined as follows: the lower bound of the estimate corresponded to the largest indicator in the category, and the upper bound corresponded to the sum of all indicators in the category. The total upper and lower estimates of the number of users for Ukraine were calculated by summing the respective values for all categories. It is important to note that the analysis had limitations, including the lack of data on users of mobile applications and chatbots.