As of December 1, 2011, the database of the Single State Registrar of enterprises and organization has 247,208 small business entities (not including farmers) registered in Uzbekistan. In January-November of 2011 there were 33,092 new small business entities registered, of which 22,309 (67.4%) were in production industry (including 7,394 of industrial entities), 10,783 (32.6%) in nonproduction fields (services) of economy, the information service of the State Committee in Statistics informed. As a result of measures implemented by the government of the republic to support small business, its share in major fields of economy tends to grow. In particular, by results of January-September this year, the share of small business entities made: in GDP – 50.5%, in industry – 20.7%, in population employment – 74.2%. These figures in the same period last year were – 48.5%, 18.7% and 73.6% respectively. (Source: UzReport.com)