Uzbekistan’s GDP makes up 40.412 trln soums in Jan-Sep

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The volume of gross domestic product (GDP) of Uzbekistan made up 40.412 trillion soums in January-September 2010 in line with preliminary data, the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said.

The tendency of stable growth of GDP real volume is retained, and its growth in the current period was 8.3% versus 8% in January-September 2009.

In the structure of GDP by forms of ownership, the share of the non-state sector was 81.7% (in January-September 2009 – 80.4%) and the state sector – 18.3% (in January-September 2009 – 19.6%).

The share of small business in the total volume of GDP comprised 48.5%, which is 3.4 percentage points higher than in the corresponding period of 2009.

The committee said the share of small enterprises and microfirms was 27.4% in January-September 2010 versus 26.5% in January-September 2009.

The significant growth of the real volume of gross regional product was observed in Namangan region (12.5%), Samarkand region (12.4%), Syrdarya region (11.5%), Surkhandarya region (10.2%) and Tashkent city (10.9%).