The economic growth rate of Uzbekistan in the first half of the year amounted to 6.2%, the State Statistics Committee reported.

Last year the growth rate slowed down to 1.1%.

The index of physical volumes of industrial production reached 8.5% (in 2020, a negative value of 0.3%).

According to EBRD experts, Uzbekistan’s GDP will grow by 6% in 2022. The growth of the economy of Uzbekistan in 2021 will be 5.6%. The EBRD emphasizes that key sectors of the Uzbek economy – services, industry, construction and agriculture – showed growth in 2021.

WB experts noted that the growth of the economy of Uzbekistan in 2021 and 2022 will reach 4.8% and 5.5%, respectively.