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Uzbekistan’s National Statistics Committee has revised its annual and quarterly gross domestic product figures for the period 2017 to 2025, lifting the nominal GDP estimate for 2025 by 277.1 trillion soums — a 15 percent increase over the previously published figure of 1,849.7 trillion soums. The updated total stands at 2,126.8 trillion soums.
Officials announced the revision at a press conference held at the committee’s offices. The recalculation drew on results from the population and agricultural censuses, updated annual reporting from enterprises and organisations, and improvements to statistical observation methods.
The committee was explicit that the higher nominal figure does not represent additional economic activity. The revision, officials said, reflects a more complete accounting of economic activity already taking place, the incorporation of new data into the system of national accounts, and steps to ensure comparability across years. Real GDP growth for 2025 was revised only marginally, moving from 7.7 percent to 7.8 percent.
Where the revision came from
Of the 277.1 trillion soum upward adjustment, the largest share — 160.3 trillion soums, or 57.9 percent of the total revision — stemmed from updated statistical data on enterprises and organisations. The agricultural census contributed 80.4 trillion soums, accounting for 29 percent of the increase. The population census added 36.4 trillion soums, or 13.1 percent.
The recalculation was conducted in line with the United Nations System of National Accounts standards and in accordance with recommendations from international experts, the committee said.
Periodic benchmark revisions of this kind are standard practice among national statistics agencies and are typically triggered by the availability of comprehensive new data sources such as censuses, which capture economic activity that routine surveys may undercount. The scale of Uzbekistan’s revision — driven substantially by enterprise data rather than demographic or agricultural counts alone — points to a significant broadening of the measured private sector since the last benchmark.