Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- In Uzbekistan, the unemployment rate fell from 9.6% to 8.9% in 2022. This was announced at an expanded meeting of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis and the Committee on Budget and Economic Reforms of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis.

It was noted that in 2022, 2.7 million people were provided with permanent employment in various fields. Over 4 million people were sent for seasonal work.

Legal entities provided employment for 1.33 million citizens, including 305 thousand people through the implementation of new investment projects.

The number of enterprises in the regions increased by 85 thousand and reached 550 thousand, due to which the number of officially employed citizens increased by 400 thousand and amounted to 5.1 million people.

In 2022, 1.1 million citizens were registered as self-employed, and their total number exceeded 2 million people. During this period, employment was provided for 101 thousand citizens at the expense of individual entrepreneurs and 199 thousand citizens in farms.

It was especially noted that as a result of the measures taken to ensure employment last year, the unemployment rate in the republic decreased from 9.6% at the beginning of the year to 8.9%.