Uzbekistan

AsiaCapital city: TashkentCapital metro: TashkentPresident: Shavkat MirziyoyevPrime Minister: Abdulla Aripov
2026 population
39.0M
Rank #39 globally
Area
447k km² (173k sq mi)
Metros tracked
17
27% of population in metros
Composite score
16.4
Rank #75 globally

population: 2026 census result (15 Jan 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 17 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography17 metros

Uzbekistan metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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17 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 17 tracked metros
17 metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions

14 entries listed under Uzbekistan across 3 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

14 total

Autonomous Republics (1)

📋 At a glance
Official language
Uzbek
Government
Presidential system
Legislature
Oliy Majlis
Demonym
Uzbek
Time zone
UTC+05:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+998
Internet TLD
.uz
ISO 3166
UZ
Established
1991
Highest point
Khazret Sultan (4,643 m (15,233 ft))
National anthem
National Anthem of Uzbekistan

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Human Dev. Index
#106 / 191
0.740
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#60 / 193
$147.0B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#131 / 193
$4.0k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#115 / 190
$13.6k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#133 / 192
$3.7k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#110 / 194
72.5 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
26.9 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#131 / 194
51%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
1.9%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#103 / 193
81/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#111 / 193
3.2%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#150 / 175
0.15
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#54 / 166
32.7
World Bank · 2025
Internet users
#59 / 193
90%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#159 / 185
8.8%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#121 / 192
3.8 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#122 / 186
19%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations4 full memberships

Security

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History4 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Independent Uzbekistan

Abdulla Aripov✦ Current

2016Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2016–presentLiberal Democratic Party

Shavkat Mirziyoyev✦ Current

2016Present

President

Tenure: 2016–presentLiberal Democratic Party

Nigmatilla Yuldashev

20162016

Acting President

Tenure: 2016Liberal Democratic Party

⚠️ Islam Karimov

19912016

President

Tenure: 1991–2016People's Democratic Party / Liberal Democratic Party
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#71 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Uzbekistan · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19451 interstate war · click to expand
Persian Empire,Timurid Empire
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
35.7m
#43 in the world
Since 1800
19×
from 1.9m
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.44%
0.20% in 1800
9.4m18.9m28.3m37.7m18001850190019502000
Uzbekistan · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Uzbekistan: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
after 2100
still growing at 2100
2050
52.2m
95% band 45.2m to 60.4m
2100
74.4m
95% band 42.8m to 145m
2100 against 2025
2.01×
median still rising in 2100
38.0m76.0m114m152m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
238k born · 99k died · +5k net migration
TFR 5.17 · life expectancy 53.3 · median age 22.7
1960
393k born · 126k died · +22k net migration
TFR 6.61 · life expectancy 56.5 · median age 21.2
1970
448k born · 134k died · +37k net migration
TFR 6.31 · life expectancy 60.1 · median age 16.7
1980
544k born · 142k died · +9k net migration
TFR 5.04 · life expectancy 63.0 · median age 17.9
1990
690k born · 149k died · -73k net migration
TFR 4.12 · life expectancy 65.8 · median age 18.9
2000
539k born · 174k died · -67k net migration
TFR 2.70 · life expectancy 65.5 · median age 20.3
2010
637k born · 176k died · -20k net migration
TFR 2.44 · life expectancy 69.8 · median age 23.6
2020
861k born · 217k died · -9k net migration
TFR 3.06 · life expectancy 71.5 · median age 26.6
Show all 16 decades
2030
860k born · 249k died · -2k net migration
TFR 3.22 · life expectancy 73.3 · median age 26.8
2040
906k born · 316k died · -3k net migration
TFR 2.84 · life expectancy 74.6 · median age 26.9
2050
997k born · 383k died · -3k net migration
TFR 2.55 · life expectancy 76.0 · median age 28.2
2060
967k born · 439k died · -990 net migration
TFR 2.34 · life expectancy 77.4 · median age 30.5
2070
962k born · 499k died · -2k net migration
TFR 2.20 · life expectancy 78.9 · median age 32.1
2080
966k born · 536k died · -2k net migration
TFR 2.09 · life expectancy 80.3 · median age 34.1
2090
921k born · 558k died · -4k net migration
TFR 2.00 · life expectancy 81.7 · median age 36.6
2100
887k born · 632k died · -8k net migration
TFR 1.94 · life expectancy 83.0 · median age 39.0

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Uzbekistan on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.