BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 17. The value of construction work carried out in Uzbekistan from January through September 2022 amounted to 94.1 trillion soums ($8.4 billion), which is an increase of 21.9 percent compared to the same period of the last year (77.2 trillion soums, or $6.9 billion), Trend reports citing the Uzbek State Statistics Committee.
During this period, most of the construction work was carried out in the country’s Tashkent city for a total of 23.3 trillion soums ($2 billion), followed by the Tashkent region for a total of 8.4 trillion soums ($758.7 million), Samarkand region (6.3 trillion soums, or $568.6 million).
In 2021, construction work worth 107.4 trillion soums ($9.9 billion) was carried out in Uzbekistan. At the same time, the value of construction work carried out in 2020 amounted to 88.1 trillion soums ($8.1 billion).