The volume of paid services rendered to population of Uzbekistan in January-December 2012 hit 13.754 trillion soums or rose by 14.3% year-on-year, the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said.

The main part of paid services was rendered to population by the official sector, the volume of services rendered by this sector was 8.882 trillion soums (64.6% of total volume) or grew by 14.5% year-on-year.

The volume of paid services rendered to population by individual entrepreneurs has increased by 13.7% to 4.872 trillion soums. Its share in the total volume of paid services reached 35.4%.

The committee said that the share of the non-state sector in the total volume of paid services rendered to population was 82.4%.

The share of personal services in the total volume of paid services was 7.7% or 1.062 trillion soums. Their real volume has increased by 15.6%.

The share of services rendered by individual entrepreneurs in the personal services sector was 86.7%. The volume of services rendered by this sector has increased by 14.7% to 921.1 billion soums (Source: UzDaily.com).