Uzbekistan’s public debt of reached $29.2 billion as of the end of 2022. In Q4, it grew by $3 billion, the Ministry of Economy and Finance said in a report.
In a year the state external debt increased by $2.3 billion - up to $25.9 billion (32.25% to GDP). Of this amount, $19.8 billion is raised on behalf of the government and $6.1 billion is guaranteed by Uzbekistan.
Debt breakdown by sector
- Public external debt by sectors of the economy for the first nine months of 2022 looks like this:
- State budget support - $8.6 billion (according to the results of 2021, it was $5.9 billion);
- Power industry — $3 billion ($3.1 billion);
- Transport and transport infrastructure - $2.84 billion ($2.5 billion);
- Agriculture and water management - $2.54 billion ($2.4 billion);
- Transport and transport infrastructure - $2.51 billion;
- Housing and communal services - $2.3 billion ($2.1 billion);
- Support for entrepreneurship and industrial production - $1.1 billion;
- Chemical industry - $1 billion ($1.2 billion);
- Education and healthcare — $0.9 billion ($0.7 billion);
- Telecommunications — $0.2 billion ($0.2 billion);
- Other industries - $0.91 billion ($1.3 billion).
Lenders
- Public external debt by creditors:
- Asian Development Bank - $6 billion ($5.2 billion);
- World Bank - $5.5 billion ($4.3 billion);
- International investors - $2.6 billion ($2.6 billion);
- State Development Bank of China and others - $2.1 billion ($2.2 billion);
- Japan International Cooperation Agency - $1.9 billion ($2.1 billion);
- Eximbank of China - $1.9 billion ($2 billion);
- Economic Cooperation Development Fund and others - $1 billion ($1 billion);
- Islamic Development Bank - $0.9 billion ($0.9 billion);
- French Development Agency - $0.7 billion;
- Japan Bank for International Cooperation - $0.4 billion ($0.6 billion);
- Other international financial institutions - $2.4 billion ($2.7 billion).
Currency structure of debt
- US dollar - 75.7% (was 71.9%);
- Japanese yen - 8.1% (10.5%);
- SDR (special drawing rights) - 7.2% (8.4%);
- Euro - 4.8% (4.6%);
- Uzbek sum - 1.6% (1.8%);
- Chinese yuan - 0.8% (1.3%);
- South Korean won - 0.67% (0.8%);
- Saudi riyal - 0.6% (0.6%);
- Kuwaiti dinar - 0.4% (0.4%);
- United Arab Emirates dirham - 0.03% (0.2%).
