Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Feb. 21 / Trend D. Azizov /
The total volume of mastered investments increased in dollar terms by 14 per cent to $11.7 billion (22.067 trillion soums) in Uzbekistan in 2012, the State Statistics Committee said today.
The state budget funds amounted to 5.1 per cent (six per cent a year earlier), the Land Reclamation Fund - 0.4 per cent (0.5 per cent), funds of enterprises and the population - 50.8 per cent (50.2 per cent), foreign investments - 21.7 per cent (25.1 per cent), bank loans and other loans - 11.4 per cent (11.1 per cent) and money in extra-budgetary funds including the Reconstruction and Development Fund - 10.6 per cent ( 7.1 per cent) in the total structure of capital investments.
The investments worth 66.6 per cent of the total investment volume (70.6 per cent a year earlier) were achieved in the manufacturing sectors of the economy In the non-manufacturing sectors it was 33.4 per cent (29.4 per cent).
Around 34.5 per cent of the total capital investment volume was mastered in the projects on the development and modernisation of industrial sectors compared to 32.7 per cent in 2011.
In particular, around 17.1 per cent of capital investments (15.2 per cent in 2011) were mastered in the fuel and energy sector, 2.9 per cent (4.1 per cent) in metallurgy, 2.3 per cent (one per cent) in chemical and petrochemical industry, 4.3 per cent (4.2 per cent) - machinery, 2.8 per cent (3.6 per cent) - light industry, 1.8 per cent (1.5 per cent) - food industry, 1.9 per cent (1.6 per cent) - building materials.
Around 4.1 per cent of the total capital investment (4.6 per cent) was mastered in agriculture in 2012, 2.3 per cent (2.6 per cent) - in construction, 18.3 per cent (23.6 per cent) - transport and communications, 4.1 per cent - trade and public catering which corresponds to the level of 2011, geology and exploration of mineral resources - 1.9 per cent (1.8 per cent) and other industries - 1.4 per cent (1.2 per cent).
The largest amount at 37.9 per cent (40.6 per cent in the previous year) of the total volume of foreign investment in 2012 was directed towards transport and communications, 30.2 per cent (27.7 per cent in 2011) - the development of the fuel-energy sector, 4.5 per cent (1 per cent) - chemical and petrochemical industry, 4 per cent (2 per cent) - utilities, 3.9 per cent (7.5 per cent) - light industry, 2.6 per cent (1.3 per cent) - machinery, 1.4 per cent (1.8 per cent) - building materials industry and 14.2 per cent (16.8 per cent) other industries.
Uzbekistan made a $10.7 billion capital investment from all sources of funding in 2011, or 12.5 per cent more than in 2010. Around 70.6 per cent of the total investment volume was directed at industrial construction.
The share of foreign investments and loans in the total amount of investments was 25.1 per cent.