Afghan nationals made up about 90.5% of the foreigners who visited Uzbekistan for business purposes in the first nine months of 2026, the National Statistics Committee said.
A total of 357,500 foreign citizens arrived for commercial purposes between January and September, according to the committee’s data. Nearly 323,700 of them were from Afghanistan.
The number of business visitors rose by 34,800, or 10.8%, from the same period last year, the committee said.
Afghanistan ranked first by a wide margin, followed by Turkmenistan with 24,196 visitors and Tajikistan with 6,412. Smaller numbers came from Kyrgyzstan (695), Kazakhstan (629), Russia (370) and Turkiye (346). Visitors from other countries totaled 1,150.
The committee’s figures cover only foreigners who entered for commercial purposes, a category separate from other types of travel.
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