Number of population employed in Uzbek economy was 12.523 million

State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said that the significant growth in the number of employed persons is marked in trade, catering, sales and procurement (by 3.7%), housing and utilities and non-productive personal services (by 3.6%), construction (by 3.5%), transport and communication (by 3.5%), agriculture and forestry (by 3.3%).

As a whole the share of persons employed in the non-state sector has reached 81.2% versus 80.7% in January-December 2012.

The number of citizens registered through labor agencies as those who are looking for a job was 5,400 persons as of the end of December 2013 versus 6,000 persons as of the end of December 2012.

In January-December 2013, the number of the unemployed defined in compliance with the method for calculation of unoccupied population which requires employment, approved by the Resolution of the Goverment of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 24 May 2007, No. 106, was 639,700 persons, the rate of unemployment – 4,9% of economically active population.

The high rate of unemployment in comparison with the republic one is observed in the Republic of Karakalpakstan (the number of unemployed persons – 40,300, the rate of unemployment – 6.2% of economically active population), Andijan region (68,500 and 5.4%), Samarkand region (76,200 and 5.3%), Khorezm region (37,100 and 5.3%), Kashkadarya region (58,300 and 5.2%), Namangan region (49,600 persons and 5.2%), Surkhndarya region (47,600 and 5.2%), Navoi region (22,800 and 5.2%).