Tashkent city posts highest growth of GRP in 2009

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The highest growth of gross regional product (GRP) in 2009 was registered in Tashkent city, according to the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan.

In the reporting period, Tashkent city’s GRP rose by 13% to 8.502 trillion soums, while GRP per capita grew by 11.6%.

Namangan region (9.9%), Samarkand region (9.7%) and Andijan region (9.6%) also recorded high volume of the GRP in 2009. These regions also had high growth of GRP per capita.

In money terms, Tashkent also led on the GRP volume with 8.502 trillion soums. Tashkent region and Kashkadarya region followed Tashkent with 4.42 trillion soums and 3.731 trillion soums respectively.

Lowest GRP growth was registered in Bukhara region (4.9%), Syrdarya region (5.2%), Khorezm region and Tashkent region (6.2% each). Syrdarya region was the only region, GRP of which was lower than 1 trillion soums level (795.4 billion soums).

As earlier reported, Uzbekistan’s gross domestic product in 2009 made up 48.097 trillion soums, or grew by 8.1% year-on-year.

	bn. soums	in % to January-December 2008
		total	per capita
Uzbekistan	48097.0	8.1	6.3
Karakalpakstan Republic	1246.1	8.2	7.0
regions:
Andijan	3225.6	9.6	7.5
Bukhara	2612.9	4.9	3.4
Jizzakh	1207.8	6.9	5.1
Kashkadarya	3731.9	8.2	6.0
Navoi	2577.4	8.2	6.7
Namangan	1863.4	9.9	7.8
Samarkand	3091.4	9.7	7.7
Surkhandarya	1705.7	6.8	4.6
Syrdarya	795.4	5.2	3.7
Tashkent	4420.7	6.4	5.1
Ferghana	3606.6	6.8	5.0
Khorezm	1547.8	6.4	4.5
Tashkent city	8502.8	13	11.6