An expanded presidential meeting on October 27 set a GDP target of $135 billion and ordered a new budget monitoring system for 22 ministries and local administrations, as the economy grew 7.6% in the first nine months of the year — well ahead of forecast.
Representatives from Uzbekistan and three other Central Asian states travelled to Vienna in July 2022 to study European Union practices in agricultural clustering and Geographical Indications, as the region pushes to raise the commercial value and international recognizability of its farm exports.
The Ministry of Finance and UNDP convened an international forum in Tashkent on 30 August 2022 to assess the expansion of participatory budgeting, after the first 2022 cycle saw 6.7 million citizens vote on more than 69,000 proposals, resulting in 1.2 trillion soums allocated to 2,354 winning projects from district and city budgets.
Six major energy projects worth $4.7 billion were signed at a meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who also ordered the preparation of the country’s first National Energy Master Plan through 2050 and announced a new Investors Council to cut bureaucratic delays.
Household liquefied gas prices are proposed to more than double to 5,000 soums per kilogram from November 1, 2026, under a plan that would also introduce a targeted 158 billion soum compensation scheme to shield families on the Social Protection Register from the full impact of the increase.
Average monthly electricity consumption per household fell from 212 kWh in 2023 to 184 kWh in 2025, while gas use dropped from 431 to 342 cubic metres, as tiered tariffs replaced a subsidy system that officials say had channelled most state support to high-income consumers.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced 12 localization projects worth $850 million targeting energy storage control modules, wind turbine components and high-voltage equipment, alongside a new specialized industrial zone in the Farish district of Jizzakh to supply the country’s planned nuclear power plant.
