The number of institutions in the preschool education system has tripled

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Main indicators

  • 2016 – 5,211 units
  • 18,254 units
(number of newly created kindergartens – 13,043)
The number of state preschool educational institutions has increased
  • in 2016 – 4,893 units
  • in 2020 – 6,197 units
Number of private preschool educational institutions
  • 2016 – 250 units
  • 788 units
Creation of non-governmental preschool educational organizations based on public-private partnership
  • Not existed
  • 1,025 units
Number of family preschool educational institutions
  • Not existed
  • More than 10 thousand
Pre-school enrolment rate
  • 27%
  • 61%
Number of pupils in preschool educational institutions
  • in 2016 – 708 thousand
  • in 2020 – 1.7 million
Number of all preschool educational institutions in the Republic of Uzbekistan
Republic of Karakalpakstan
  • 317
  • 1 032
Andijan region
  • 456
  • 1 636
Bukhara region
  • 343
  • 1 277
Jizzakh region
  • 172
  • 990
Kashkadarya region
  • 332
  • 1 558
Navoi region
  • 115
  • 746
Namangan region
  • 472
  • 1 618
Samarkand region
  • 565
  • 2 421
Surkhandarya region
  • 294
  • 1 125
Syrdarya region
  • 155
  • 548
Tashkent region
  • 441
  • 1 034
Fergana region
  • 664
  • 2 215
Khorezm region
  • 248
  • 1 274
Tashkent city
  • 637
  • 780
  • No separate ministry existed
  • The Ministry of Pre-school Education has been established
  • There was no such legal act
  • Law "On preschool education and upbringing" was adopted
  • No such concept paper existed

A Concept for the development of the preschool education system until 2030 has been adopted, according to which the following areas are identified as priorities

  • further improvement of the regulatory and legal framework in the field of preschool education
  • creating conditions for the comprehensive intellectual, moral, aesthetic and physical development of preschool children
  • improvement of coverage of children with high-quality preschool education, ensuring equal access to it, development of public-private partnership in this area
  • introduction of innovations, advanced pedagogical and information and communication technologies into the preschool education system
  • introduction of fundamentally new approaches to training, retraining, advanced training, selection and development of personnel into the preschool education system
  • providing children with a healthy and balanced diet and quality health care in preschool educational institutions
  • The preschool enrolment rate will be increased to 65 per cent
  • 630.5 billion soums of subsidies will be allocated, 2 thousand private kindergartens will be opened
  • A system of compulsory school preparation for children aged six will be established
  • In cooperation with UNESCO and the World Bank, a model for providing preschool education at home in remote villages will be created

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