About 277,880 legal entities registered in Uzbekistan
According to the State Statistics Committee, largest number of enterprises is registered in trade and catering (77,020 organizations or 27.72% from total registered enterprises), industry (48,254 or 17.26%), construction (24,905 or 8.96%), agriculture and forestry (22,760 or 8.19%).
About 15,771 new legal entities were registered in Uzbekistan in the first half of 2015. About 28.73% of them were registered in trade and catering sphere, 23.33% - industry and 11.1% - construction sector.
Significant number of newly created enterprises and organizations fell to share of Tashkent city (23.86% of total newly registered companies in Uzbekistan), Tashkent region (10.03%), Samarkand region (8.3%) and Ferghana region (8.11%).