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Economy
03/08/2009
Small businesses produce 40.9% of GDP in 1H
Small businesses produce 40.9% of GDP in 1H
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) --
The gross domestic product of Uzbekistan was 18.312 trillion soums or grew by 8.2% year-on-year in January-June 2009. GDP per capita has increased by 6.4%, the Uzbek State Statistics Committee said.
In the structure of GDP by forms of ownership, the share of the non-state sector is 78.4% (in January-June 2008 - 76.3%) and that of the state sector - 21.6% (in January-June 2008 - 23.7%).
Small business entities produced 40.9% of the total volume of GDP, which was 0.7 percenatge points higher than in January-June 2008 (40.2%). Out of the total volume of GDP produced by small business entities, the share of small enterprises and microfirms was 24.6% or 1.9% more than in January-June 2008 (22.7%).
The significant growth of the real volume of gross regional product was observed in the city of Tashkent (13.6%), Namangan region (10.8%), Andijan region (10.6%), Surkhandarya region (9.1%), Jizzakh region (8.7%) and Syrdarya region (8.7%).
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