Small and medium-sized businesses accounted for 50.9% of Kyrgyzstan’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025, according to preliminary figures from the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The figures appear in its report, Small and Medium Entrepreneurship in the Kyrgyz Republic, 2021–2025, published on October 28, 2026. The sector’s share of GDP averaged 42.7% over the five-year period. These GDP figures include individual entrepreneurs and farms, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises.
Kyrgyzstan had 26,000 small enterprises and 1,200 medium-sized enterprises operating in 2025. They employed 138,800 people, or 5% of all those employed in the economy. This employment figure does not include people working for individual entrepreneurs or on farms.
Of these enterprises, 33.8% operated in wholesale and retail trade and motor vehicle repair. Industry accounted for 11.9% and construction for 11.1%.
As of January 1, 2026, the country’s statistical register listed 504,900 individual entrepreneurs, up 3.4% from a year earlier. There were also 479,000 farms operating in 2025.
Foreign direct investment inflows into small and medium-sized enterprises totaled $276.5 million in 2025, excluding outflows. This was 30.5% lower than in 2024 but 1.6 times the 2021 level.
Foreign trade by small and medium-sized businesses totaled $8.663 billion, up 9.2% from 2024. Exports rose 9.1% to $1.305 billion, while imports increased 9.2% to $7.359 billion. Imports were more than five times the value of exports.
This export growth contrasted with a 41.2% fall in Kyrgyzstan’s overall merchandise exports in 2025, largely because of declining gold sales.
In June 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic approved a program to support and develop small and medium-sized businesses through 2030. Its goals include increasing the sector’s contribution to GDP, expanding employment and exports, and raising tax revenue.
