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Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Uzbekistan economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev, new ruler of Uzbekistan, looks likely to be just as much a hard-line autocrat as his predecessor was.
USD 41.2 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 250.3 billion (2018, estimate)
2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* | 2018* |
8% | 7.9% | 9.8% | 8.9%* | 5%* |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
8.5% | 8.8% | 13.9% | 17.5% | 14.7% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
7.1% | 8.6% | 20.2% | 20.6% | 23.3% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
1.1% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 2.2% | 0.6% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: BB–
Moody's: B1
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
-7.1% (2018 estimate)
29.1% (2018)
0.06% (2018)
0.07% (2018)
Energy products, cotton, gold, mineral fertilizers, ferrous and nonferrous metals, textiles, foodstuffs, machinery, automobiles
Machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, ferrous and nonferrous metals
Switzerland 38.7%, China 15.5%, Russia 10.7%, Turkey 8.6%, Kazakhstan 7.7%, Afghanistan 4.7% (2017)
China 23.7%, Russia 22.5%, Kazakhstan 10.7%, South Korea 9.8%, Turkey 5.8%, Germany 5.6% (2017)
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 134 million | USD 98 million | USD 412 million |
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 69 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 8 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 132 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 36 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 72 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 67 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 37 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 69 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 152 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 22 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 100 out of 190 countries
Ranking: 140 / Score: 53.3 (Mostly unfree) (2019)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Presidential republic; highly authoritarian
Uzbek (official) 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1%
Note: in the Karakalpakstan Republic, both the Karakalpak language and Uzbek have official status
Muslim 88% (mostly Sunni), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020* |
N/A | 24.5 million | 28 million | 31.0 million | 33.5 million |
*Estimate
1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
34% | 40.8% | 46.1% | 50.5% |
Total population: 100%
Male: 100%
Female: 100% (2018 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write)
Political Rights: 7
Civil Liberties: 9 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 10.8% Mobile 75.9% (2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)