In order to ensure the implementation of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PP-4273 dated April 9, 2019 “On additional measures to ensure the openness and transparency of state department, as well as increase the statistical potential of the country” and the decree
ofthe Presidentof the Republic of Uzbekistan No. UP-6003 dated June 2, 2020"About Improvement of Line Items of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the International Ratings and Indexes, and also Implementation of the New Mechanism of System Work with Them in State Bodies and the Organizations", the State Statistics Committee is carrying out a number of activities.

Specifically, in 2019, according to the order of the Chairman of the State Committee on Statistics, an expert group under the leadership of Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on Statistics M. Ziyadullaev was established to explore the indicator "Prevalence of Undernourishment", annually announced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO.

During a seminar organized by the FAO in Tashkent on 10-12 December 2019, representative of the expert group of the State Committee on Statistics H.Khudoikulova discussed with Fao experts the shortcomings in the calculation of the "Prevalence of Undernourishment" in Uzbekistan. FAO experts have recalculated the Prevalence of Undernourishment in Uzbekistan on the basis of the New Food Balance Sheet since 2014, taking into account the feedback of the expert of the State Statistics Committeeand as a result, the figure was 2.8% (0.9 million) for 2016-2018 and 2.6% (0.8 million) for the last 2017-2019.

These data were officially announced at Launch of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2020 Confirmationand Nutrition 2020” (SOFI 2020) on July 13, 2020 and on the official website of the FAO.

http://www.fao.org/3/ca9692en/online/ca9692en.html#chapter-a1_1

The event was attended by the head of the Department of monitoring and coordination of the Open data portal A.Sultanov and chief specialist H.Khudoykulova, as well as the head of the Department of Population Living Standards and Surveys Statistics J.Yuldashev.

The indicator “Prevalence of Undernourishment”, which is regularly published by the FAO, is an important indicator of the living standards of the country's population at the international level.       

Earlier, in the report SOFI 2019 of the FAO in 2019, Uzbekistan was ranked after Kazakhstan (2,1%) and Turkmenistan (5,4%) in Central Asia with prevalence of undernourishmentwith an indicator of 6,3% (2,0 million people) in 2016-2018. http://www.fao.org/3/ca5162en/ca5162en.pdf.

Since July 13, 2020, the indicator "Prevalence of Undernourishment" in Uzbekistan has been revised to the positive side and published on its official website.

The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics expresses his gratitude to the expert of FAO Dorian Kalamveros Navarro, the team of the FAO Statistics Division (ESS) and Senior Statistician Carlo Cafiero for their close assistance in providing clarity to the data.