Employment in different industries
Employment breakdown in different industries:
The Republic of Uzbekistan is the cradle of ancient high agricultural and urban culture with thousand years’ history.
The pearl of Uzbekistan – Ferghana valley, the Zarafshan and Kashkadarya river basins, and also the Amudarya River downstream since the ancient times used to be a densely populated oasis of the region. Hence the percentage of employed people in the Agricultural sector is very high. After the Soviet system had collapsed the Industrial sector decreased its capacity,
however nowadays the national economy has made positive achievements becoming a leading sector. Industry of the Republic appeared and developed mainly on the basis of the requirements and needs of the main national economy branches: cotton growing, silk culture, fruit growing etc. Therefore the level of Employees in this sector has risen up. At the same time the transition to market economy made small firms and enterprises develop their business opening new working places.
Breakdown of Population employed in Material and Non-material production sectors in 2007-2008.
| Indicator | 2007 | 2008 | |||
| Thousand people | Share % | Thousand people | Share % | 2008 in %to 2007 | |
| Employed Total | 10580.7 | 100.0 | 10886.6 | 100.0 | 102.9 |
| In Material production: Industry Agriculture & Forestry Construction sector Transport & Communication Trade, Public catering, Logistics, Merchandizing, Procurement Other sectors |
6991.7 1426.7 2784.1 859.2 355.8 1047.8 518.1 |
66.1 13.5 26.3 8.1 3.4 9.9 4.9 |
7171.5 1482.3 2790.9 895.3 369.7 1123.3 512.0 |
65.9 13.6 25.7 8.2 3.4 10.3 4.7 |
102.6 103.9 100.2 104.2 103.9 107.2 98.8 |
| In Non-material production: Housing & Utilitiesand Consumer services to population Healthcare, Physics, Culture & Sport, Social welfare Education, Culture, The arts, Science & Scientific support Transport & Communication Finance, Lending & Insurance Other sectors |
3589.0 344.4 800.9 1471.6 188.1 57.6 746.4 |
33.9 3.2 7.6 13.9 1.6 0.5 7.1 |
3713.1 362.8 840.6 1530.4 183.6 59.1 736.6 |
34.1 3.3 7.7 14.1 1.7 0.5 6.8 |
103.5 105.3 105.0 104.0 109.2 102.6 98.7 |
