We have already written about individual indicators of the “official Crimean statistics” published in August by the illegal “Krymstat”, in terms of the growing demographic crisis on the occupied peninsula and the “self-denial” of the occupiers regarding the “successful resort season”.
And although “Krymstat” is trying to maintain the relevant reports in an “optimistic tone”, when supposedly “everything is steadily increasing”, it is quite difficult for the occupiers to disguise individual figures. For example, it is not possible to hide the reduction, relative to 2023, in the volume of industrial production in the occupied of AR Crimea, albeit “only” by 2%.
The reasons for the “unbalanced balance” are not so easy to understand, since “Krymstat” has stopped publishing data on a number of items “in order to maintain confidentiality”. The most tragicomic thing here is that the occupiers classified different data for the AR Crimea and Sevastopol; for Crimea, these are statistics on beef and veal, poultry, fish, juices, cottage cheese, bed linen, special clothing, products of Crimean chemical plants, window blocks and construction mixtures.
For Sevastopol, they do not report figures for granite, vegetables, crushed stone, milk and butter, as well as footwear.
But even in the remaining figures, it is noticeable that the main “sag” in Crimea was caused by the production of concrete (by 57%), footwear (23%), as well as pork (9%) and sausage (7%). These “official data” are basically consistent with the continued reduction in livestock to 94.7 thousand heads (6.4% less), of which the number of Crimean cows decreased by 7%, pigs by 6%, sheep and goats by 9.6%.
Sevastopol cattle decreased by 22%, but there were not many of them, so the total was 504 cows and 108 pigs.
Also, Crimean construction, which the occupiers traditionally consider the “locomotive of the economy”, did not “give an increase”, having decreased by 6% in the first half of 2024.
At the same time, “official statistics” recognize the stagnation of the service sector in Crimea and its decline by 3% in Sevastopol, however, such figures are the easiest for them to manipulate. As the “main negative factors” for the economy, “Krymstat”, instead of the word on “w” letter, banned by the Kremlin, traditionally names “uncertainty of the economic situation” and “lack of financial resources”.
