Industrial production of Uzbekistan grows by 7.7% in 2012

In the reporting period, Uzbekistan produced consumer goods worth 17.977 trillion soums (+7.6% year-on-year). The volume of produced food products reached 7.947 trillion soums (+8.4%) and non-food good – 10.03 trillion soums (+7%).

Fuel industry (18.3% from total industrial output), machinery and metal processing (17%), food industry (14%) and light industry (12.9%) had the largest share in industrial production.

At the same time, share of fuel industry in total industrial production grew by 1 percentage point compared to 2011 and machinery and metal processing – 0.8 percentage points. Share of light industry fell by 0.5 percentage points and food industry – 0.1 percentage points.

Fuel industry produced goods for 9.295 trillion soums (+6.2%), machinery and metal processing – 8.628 trillion soums (+12.4%), light industry – 6.529 trillion soums (+12%) and food industry – 7.088 trillion soums (+6.5%).

Structure of industrial production of Uzbekistan in 2012 by branches