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Share of enterprises with foreign capital decreases in industrial production of Uzbekistan

Business Materials 16 May 2019 17:20 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, May 16

By Fakhri Vakilov – Trend:

For four months of 2019, enterprises with foreign investments reduced their share in the total industrial output of Uzbekistan, Trend reports with reference to the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan.

In January – April of the current year, enterprises with foreign capital produced goods for 35.9 trillion soums. The share of products of such enterprises in the total volume of production amounted to 37.9 percent.

Official statistics recorded that for the same period last year, the share of enterprises with foreign capital in the total volume of industrial production was 39.1 percent.

For four months of 2019, according to preliminary data of the State Statistics Committee, enterprises of the country manufactured industrial products for 94.7 trillion soums.

As previously reported, as of May 1, 2019, the number of operating enterprises with foreign capital was 8536.

Compared to the same period last year, their number increased by 2,558, or 42.8 percent. Most of them belong to Russia (1576), Turkey (1021), China (1268), Kazakhstan (623) and South Korea (702).

State Statistics Committee noted that 4,411 enterprises with foreign capital are joint, 4,125 are foreign.

Tashkent and the Tashkent region are still a zone of attraction of foreign capital. These regions account for 72 percent of enterprises with foreign investment.

Official statistics recorded that there are 5208 enterprises in Tashkent with the participation of foreign capital (61 percent) and 937 (11 percent) in Tashkent region.

Moreover, there are 438 enterprises with foreign capital in the Samarkand region - 5.1 percent of the total indicator of the country.

The remaining regions account for 23 percent of foreign and joint ventures.

The main part of the operating enterprises with the participation of foreign capital falls on industry (3173) and trade (2020). The smallest share falls on health care and the provision of social services, as well as information and communication, read the message.

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