By Norjigitov Jahongir Abdu-sodikovich, An employee of the Ministry of Poverty Reduction and Employment of the Repub-lic of Uzbekistan 

 International rankings and indexes assess the economic and political freedom, well-being of life, human rights, education, health care system, etc. of various countries. In accor-dance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 02.06.2020, key performance indicators (KPIs) were defined for pri-ority international ratings and indices for the Republic of Uzbekistan, a number of which, as well as 16 sub-indi-cators, are directly related to the labor market. This arti-cle highlights sub-indicators related to the labor market that affect the position in in-ternational indices, as well as measures that need to be im-plemented in the labor mar-ket to improve the position of Uzbekistan in international comparisons. 

Global Innovation Index 
The Global Innovation Index (GII), evaluated by the World Intellectual Property Organi-zation (WIPO) since 2007, cov-ers the economies of 132 coun-tries, which account for 94.3% of the world's population. In this index, Uzbekistan ranked 93rd in 2020, 86th in 2021, and 82nd in 2022. The index consists of 7 directions and 81 sub-indicators. Each country is rated on a 100-point scale. In this index, 3 sub-indicators of the "Business Development" direction and 1 sub-indicator of the "Institutional system" direction relate to the labor market, which are evaluated as follows. 

Employment in knowl –edge-intensive industries. 

According to the method-ology of the International Labor Organization, this sub-indicator is formed by calculating the share of the number of people employed in knowledge-intensive indus-tries, which belong to three categories of professions: man-agers, specialists, technical and auxiliary specialists, as part of the economically active population. Therefore, the GII sub-indicator lacks data on employment in knowledge-in-tensive industries in Uzbeki-stan. This is due to the fact that the report was not con-ducted according to the ISCO- 08 and ISCO-88 standards, which take into account the distribution of employment by position. In order to determine the indicators of this sub-in-dicator, it is necessary to determine the number of em-ployees in knowledge-intensive industries based on the inter-departmental software and hardware complex "Unified National Labor System", as well as make changes to the questionnaire for determining the balance of labor resources based on the recommendation of the International Labor Or-ganization. As an experiment, it is advisable to conduct an appropriate survey to coordi-nate the quality of the collect-ed data with the International Labor Organization.