The volume of utilized investments in fixed capital in dollar equivalent in Uzbekistan made up US$10.7 billion in 2011 or grew by 12.5% compared to January-December 2010, the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said.

In January-December 2011, some 72,800 buildings or 73,900 apartments with the total space of 9.237 million m2 (+4.5% compared to January-December 2010), including 7.052 million m2 (+5.4%) of the rural area, were built and put into operation.

According to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 3 August, 2009 №PP-1167 “On additional measures for expanding scales of housing construction in the rural area” in 2011, 7362 typical apartment buildings (taking into account buildings from 2010) with the space of 1.071 million m2 were built and put into operation in the rural area, 558.4 billion soums of investments were utilized for their construction, including 345 billion soums of Qishloq Qurilish Bank credits – 61.8% of their volume.

Out of the total investments utilized in the non-production sphere 379.3 billion soums (7.1% of their volume) were used in construction of education establishments, 292.8 billion soums (5.4%) – in public utility construction, 433.8 billion soums (8.1%) - in construction of medical establishments.

About 31.9 billion soums of investments were used for construction and reconstruction of academic lyceums and vocational colleges, which made up 0.6% of investments in the non-production sphere and 8.5% of investments in education.

Some 146.8 billion soums of investments were used for new construction and capital reconstruction of hospitals and out-patient departments, 11.4 billion soums – for construction and capital reconstruction of other health care projects, which made up 33.8% and 2.6% respectively of investments in public health sector.

About 132.9 billion soums were used for construction of water-supply networks, of which 61.3 billion soums – budgetary funds (46.1% of their total volume), 28.9 billion soums - foreign investments and credits (21.7%), 14.8 billion soums – means of population (11.1%). 12 billion soums were used for construction of gas networks, of which 12 billion soums (100%) were means of population.

In January-December 2011, construction works were fulfilled to the amount of 9.438 trillion soums, which grew by 8.5% year-on-year.

Out of the total volume of construction works 78.8% falls on new construction, reconstruction, expansion and technical re-equipment of enterprises, 19.7% – on capital and current repair, and 1.5% – on other contract works.