Highest GRP growth in Jan-Sep recorded in Namangan region

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Highest growth of gross regional product (GRP) in Uzbekistan in nine months of 2010 was recorded in Namangan and Samarkand regions, according to the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan.

In the reporting period, GRP of Namangan region rose by 12.5% to 1.455 trillion soums. GRP per capita in the region rose by 10.5%. Economy of Samarkand region grew by 12.4% to 2.527 trillion soums.

Syrdarya region (11.5%), Surkhandarya region (10.2%) and Tashkent city (10.9%) also recorded high growth of GRP in the region period. These regions also registered high growth rates of GRP per capita.

In monetary terms, the highest growth of GRP was in Tashkent city with the figure of 7,276 trillion soums. Tashkent region and Kashkadarya region followed Tashkent city with 4.049 trillion soums and 3.44 trillion soums respectively.

Lowest growth of GRP was observed in Ferghana region (2.6%), Kashkadarya region (4%), Navoi region (5%). In monetary volume, the lowest GRP was recorded in Syrdarya region – 642.7 billion soums.

Gross domestic product (GDP) of Uzbekistan made up 40.412 trillion soums in January-September 2010, or grew by 8.3% year-on-year.

Gross domestic product (by gross regional product)

	bn. soums	In % to January-September 2009
		total	per capita
Uzbekistan*	40412.5	8.3	6.5
Karakalpakstan	1012.4	9.0	7.9
regions:
Andijan	2326.6	9.6	7.6
Bukhara	2249.6	7.0	5.4
Jizzakh	940.5	9.7	7.9
Kashkadarya	3440.1	4.0	1.9
Navoi	2377.7	5.0	3.5
Namangan	1454.9	12.5	10.5
Samarkand	2527.3	12.4	10.3
Surkhandarya	1426.2	10.2	8.1
Syrdarya	642.7	11.5	9.8
Tashkent	4049.9	8.8	7.5
Ferghana	2817.2	2.6	0.8
Khorezm	1334.9	9.4	7.4
Tashkent city	7276.4	10.9	9.6

* including data not distributed by regions