Unemployment
stood at 9.3 per-
cent at end-2018
Uzbekistan’s sectoral employ-
ment structure has remained
relatively unchanged in the last
decade (Figure 8). Under a re-
vised official methodology, the
unemployment rate stood at 9.3
percent at end-2018, down from
9.7 percent in the first quarter.
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Unemployment is highest in the
provinces of Ferghana (10 per-
cent), Andijan (9.9 percent), and
Surkhandarya (9.9 percent), and
lowest in Tashkent city (7.8 per-
cent). At end-2018 the youth un-
employment rate (16-25 years
of age) was 17 percent, and un-
employment among women was 12.9 percent.
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