According to the State Statistics Committee, Volyn ranks eighth in Ukraine in terms of payment for utility services in January 2007. Overall, for the first month of 2007, the region's population paid 78.6% \n \nOf the accrued 34 million hryvnias, Volyn residents paid almost 27 million. \nThe population of Chernihiv region (84.5%), Poltava region, Sumy region, Sevastopol (all – 81.3% each), Zhytomyr region (79.1%) and Bukovyna (78.8%) paid best for utility services. \n \nThe absolute outsider in utility payments is the capital, whose population paid less than half. Of the accrued almost 200 million hryvnias, Kyiv residents paid only 90 million. \n \nAlso, a low level of utility payments is usually observed in the southern and eastern regions: in Crimea, Dnipropetrovsk region, Kharkiv region, Odesa region and Luhansk region. In these regions, the population paid less than 70% of the accrued money. \n