This document summarizes the translation market in Ukraine. It provides statistics on the size of the Ukrainian translation market in 2012 ($82 million, about 0.3% of GDP) and breakdown of market shares among language service providers, freelancers, and in-house translators. It also lists the top 20 translation agencies in Ukraine by revenue and common services offered beyond translation like interpreting and language training. Key sectors for future growth are identified as energy, localization/games, banking/financial, and life sciences.
4. Odessa Idea of Competition:
≈20 retail agencies over 200 m.
5.
6. As % of GDP, based on Common
Sense Advisory 2012 estimate for
global translation market ($33,5 bn)
$82 m
Ukrainian translation
market volume in 2012
7. 600 companies
2 employees
$24k per year per employee
Market shares imagined, $ m
LSP leaders,
11
LSP long
tail, 28.8
Freelancers,
13
In-house,
29
14. FREELANCER
25 UAH per Page
$0,007 per Word
AGENCY
28 UAH per page
$0,01 per Word
An Honest Day’s Wages
15. • TRIS – Simultaneous interpreting school
• Task Force – Transport, Corporate Tourism
• Dialog-Kiev – Events, Tourism
• A.B.C. – Teaching, Training
• Gulfstream – Travel, Marriage Agency,
Education, Real Estate Agency, Language
Training, Legal, Design, NASA news… and the
list goes on.