Unemployment rate makes up 5.2% in Uzbekistan

In 2015, 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 Government of 24 May 2007, №106, was 709,400 persons and the rate of unemployment makes 5,2% of economically active population.

The number of citizens registered through labor agencies as those who are looking for a job was 2,700 persons as of the end of December 2015, which is 20.5% less than as of the end of December 2014 (3,400 persons).

In January-December 2015, number of economically active population averaged 13.767 million persons or 44% of the total population.

In January-December 2015, according to the preliminary data, the number of population engaged in the economy was 13.058 million persons and increased by 1.9% in comparison with January 2014.

The significant growth in the number of employed persons is marked in transport and communication (by 3.8%), housing and utilities and non-productive personal services (by 3.6%), trade, catering, sales and procurement (by 3.5%) and construction (by 3.3%).

In January-December 2015, the occupational level of economically active population (ratio of the number of persons employed in the economy to economically active population) was 94.8% in 2015.

As a whole the share of persons employed in the non-state sector reached 82.2% in January-December 2015 versus 81.9% in January-December 2014.