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Uzbekistan
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ANNUAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
Population & economic scale
The most recent non-empty observations returned by the World Bank when this snapshot was collected. Read the year on each card: these are annual statistics, not live measurements.
World Bank reporting entity: Uzbekistan · 3 of 3 indicators available.
Population
37,053,428
people
observation
Definition, value & source
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Received value: 37053428 people. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division
GDP
$147.04 billion
current US$
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 147038081129.405 current US$. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP per capita
$3,968
current US$ per person
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 3968.2720079072 current US$ per person. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP and GDP per capita use current US dollars, without an inflation or purchasing-power-parity adjustment. Source years can differ. Missing data is not zero; earlier archive figures below are retained as a separate historical reference.
THE REFERENCE FILE
Uzbekistan at a glance
These are historical reference facts from the 2025 World Factbook archive. Each estimate keeps its own period; an archive edition does not make every figure a measurement from that year.
Population
total: 37,015,151 (2025 est.) male: 18,576,048 female: 18,439,103
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
$379.989 billion (2024 est.) $356.797 billion (2023 est.) $335.678 billion (2022 est.) note: data in 2021 dollars
GDP (official exchange rate)
$114.965 billion (2024 est.) note: data in current dollars at official exchange rate
Real GDP growth rate
6.5% (2024 est.) 6.3% (2023 est.) 6% (2022 est.) note: annual GDP % growth based on constant local currency
Real GDP per capita
$10,500 (2024 est.) $10,000 (2023 est.) $9,600 (2022 est.) note: data in 2021 dollars
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
9.6% (2024 est.) 10% (2023 est.) 11.4% (2022 est.) note: annual % change based on consumer prices
Unemployment rate
4.5% (2024 est.) 4.5% (2023 est.) 4.5% (2022 est.) note: % of labor force seeking employment
Labor force
13.974 million (2024 est.) note: number of people ages 15 or older who are employed or seeking work
Budget
revenues: $21.565 billion (2023 est.) expenditures: $25.953 billion (2023 est.) note: central government revenues (excluding grants) and expenditures converted to US dollars at average official exchange rate for year indicated
Current account balance
-$5.738 billion (2024 est.) -$7.799 billion (2023 est.) -$2.847 billion (2022 est.) note: balance of payments - net trade and primary/secondary income in current dollars
Exports
$26.173 billion (2024 est.) $25.05 billion (2023 est.) $20.966 billion (2022 est.) note: balance of payments - exports of goods and services in current dollars
Imports
$43.624 billion (2024 est.) $42.646 billion (2023 est.) $35.643 billion (2022 est.) note: balance of payments - imports of goods and services in current dollars
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold
$41.237 billion (2024 est.) $34.558 billion (2023 est.) $35.774 billion (2022 est.) note: holdings of gold (year-end prices)/foreign exchange/special drawing rights in current dollars
Debt - external
$25.714 billion (2023 est.) note: present value of external debt in current US dollars
Electricity access
electrification - total population: 100% (2022 est.)
Internet users
percent of population: 89% (2023 est.)
THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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Location
Central Asia, north of Turkmenistan, south of Kazakhstan
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Capital
name: Tashkent (Toshkent) geographic coordinates: 41 19 N, 69 15 E time difference: UTC+5 (10 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) etymology: the current name of the ancient city was first used in the 11th century and comes from the Sogdian (Turkic) words tash ( stone) and kent (town); the city was first recorded in the 5th or 4th century B.C. with the name of Chach or Shash
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Economic overview
lower-middle income Central Asian economy; key exporter of natural gas, cotton, and gold; ongoing reform efforts to reduce state-owned sector dominance, attract foreign investment, and improve sustainability of cotton production
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural resources
natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Agricultural products
milk, wheat, cotton, potatoes, carrots/turnips, tomatoes, grapes, watermelons, vegetables, apples (2023) note: top ten agricultural products based on tonnage
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Industries
textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy, mining, hydrocarbon extraction, chemicals
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - partners
Switzerland 34%, Russia 12%, UK 11%, China 7%, Turkey 6% (2023) note: top five export partners based on percentage share of exports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - commodities
gold, cotton yarn, garments, fertilizers, fabric (2023) note: top five export commodities based on value in dollars
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - partners
China 32%, Russia 17%, Kazakhstan 8%, S. Korea 6%, Turkey 5% (2023) note: top five import partners based on percentage share of imports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - commodities
cars, vehicle parts/accessories, packaged medicine, refined petroleum, aircraft (2023) note: top five import commodities based on value in dollars
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Climate
mostly mid-latitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Terrain
mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zaravshan; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Land use
agricultural land: 58.1% (2023 est.) arable land: 9.1% (2023 est.) permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.) permanent pasture: 47.9% (2023 est.) forest: 8.7% (2023 est.) other: 31.8% (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural hazards
earthquakes; floods; landslides or mudslides; avalanches; droughts
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Languages
Uzbek (official) 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1% major-language sample(s): Jahon faktlari kitobi, asosiy ma'lumotlar uchun zaruriy manba. (Uzbek) The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. note: in the semi-autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, both the Karakalpak language and Uzbek have official status
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Religions
Muslim 88% (mostly Sunni), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Age structure
0-14 years: 29.6% (male 5,597,947/female 5,213,403) 15-64 years: 63.7% (male 11,649,017/female 11,617,411) 65 years and over: 6.7% (2024 est.) (male 1,077,849/female 1,364,966)
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Urbanization
urban population: 50.5% of total population (2023) rate of urbanization: 1.25% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
2023, 2020 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 76.2 years (2024 est.) male: 73.6 years female: 79 years
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Literacy
total population: 100% (2022 est.) male: 100% (2022 est.) female: 100% (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity
installed generating capacity: 17.901 million kW (2023 est.) consumption: 75.753 billion kWh (2023 est.) exports: 2.043 billion kWh (2023 est.) imports: 4.977 billion kWh (2023 est.) transmission/distribution losses: 3.433 billion kWh (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity generation sources
fossil fuels: 90.8% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) solar: 0.6% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) hydroelectricity: 8.7% of total installed capacity (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Petroleum
total petroleum production: 64,000 bbl/day (2023 est.) refined petroleum consumption: 111,000 bbl/day (2023 est.) crude oil estimated reserves: 594 million barrels (2021 est.)
2023, 2021 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural gas
production: 43.249 billion cubic meters (2023 est.) consumption: 44.455 billion cubic meters (2023 est.) exports: 1.308 billion cubic meters (2023 est.) imports: 2.514 billion cubic meters (2023 est.) proven reserves: 1.841 trillion cubic meters (2021 est.)
2023, 2021 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Carbon dioxide emissions
110.992 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from coal and metallurgical coke: 12.845 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from petroleum and other liquids: 13.437 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from consumed natural gas: 84.71 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Telephones - mobile cellular
total subscriptions: 40.2 million (2024 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1,110 (2024 est.)
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
total: 10.8 million (2023 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 30 (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Airports
74 (2025)
2025 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Railways
total: 4,642 km (2018) broad gauge: 4,642 km (2018) 1.520-m gauge (1,684 km electrified)
2018 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
GDP - composition, by sector of origin
agriculture: 18.3% (2024 est.) industry: 31.8% (2024 est.) services: 45.2% (2024 est.) note: figures may not total 100% due to non-allocated consumption not captured in sector-reported data
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Remittances
14.4% of GDP (2024 est.) 13.8% of GDP (2023 est.) 17.2% of GDP (2022 est.) note: personal transfers and compensation between resident and non-resident individuals/households/entities
2024, 2023, 2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
CURRENCY OBSERVATIONS
Money & exchange rates
The latest verified daily references are separate from the historical country profile. Values are currency units per US$1.
Uzbekistan Sum
UZS per US$1
Published reference snapshot; its original observation date is preserved.
1 UZS = US$0.0000847745
11,777–11,831 UZS per US$1 across the displayed observations. The vertical scale follows this range.
View dated observations
| Observation date | UZS per US$1 |
|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | 11,796 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 11,811 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 11,816 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 11,822 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 11,830 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 11,825 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 11,813 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 11,820 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 11,825 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 11,828 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 11,828 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 11,826 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 11,818 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 11,806 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 11,824 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 11,831 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 11,821 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 11,824 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 11,815 |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 11,797 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 11,779 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 11,779 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 11,777 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 11,788 |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 11,791 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 11,794 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 11,804 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 11,804 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 11,789 |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 11,792 |
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