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Number of enterprises with foreign capital in Uzbekistan rises significantly

Business Materials 15 January 2019 11:33 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 15

By Rashid Shirinov – Trend:

As of January 1, 2019, the number of enterprises with foreign capital operating in Uzbekistan amounted to 7,560, Trend reports referring to the Uzbek media.

According to the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan, their number increased by 2,043 units or 37 percent year-on-year.

Most of the enterprises have Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Kazakh and South Korean capital. Some 4,006 enterprises with foreign capital are joint ventures, and 3,554 are foreign enterprises.

It should be noted that the majority of the enterprises with foreign capital account for the city of Tashkent (4,728 or 62.5 percent), as well as the Tashkent (851 or 11.3 percent) and Samarkand (396 or 5.2 percent) regions.

In terms of economic activity, the largest number of the enterprises with foreign capital account for industry (2,995 or 39.6 percent) and trade (1,668 or 22 percent).

The smallest share of enterprises with foreign capital accounts for healthcare, social services, and information and communication sectors.

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