Number of medium-sized enterprises in Kyrgyzstan up 35.6% in a year

Kyrgyzstan had 1,227 medium-sized enterprises in 2025, 35.6% more than in 2024. The number of small enterprises was 26 thousand. Malika Abdukadyrova, head of the finance and price statistics department of the National Statistical Committee, announced the figures at a press conference in Bishkek on October 15.

As of January 1, 2026, nearly 505 thousand individual entrepreneurs and 479 thousand peasant farms were registered in the country. Bishkek accounts for about 20 thousand small and medium enterprises, or 73% of the total. Osh region has the most individual entrepreneurs, at 91 thousand or 18% of the total. Excluding farms, 39% of small and medium businesses operate in trade, 24% in agriculture and fishing, 10% in transport and 6% in industry.