Country profile · Europe & Central Asia · Lower middle income

Uzbekistan

Every figure below carries its global rank and its history — and a plain line on what the number means. Figures: World Bank, World Development Indicators (open data), retrieved 2026-07-27.

At a glance

Latest available year per indicator

GDP · 2025

$147.0 bn

61st largest of 214

The size of the economy — everything produced in a year. The headline number every other figure argues with.

GDP growth · 2025

7.7%

15th fastest-growing of 214

How fast output is expanding, inflation-adjusted. Growth without jobs or wages is where the story usually hides.

GDP per capita · 2025

$3,968

152nd highest of 214

Output per person — the rough proxy for average living standards, and an average that hides a lot.

Inflation (CPI) · 2025

8.8%

27th highest of 193

How fast consumer prices rise. What it understates for poorer households is half the story.

Unemployment · 2025

4.6%

111th highest of 187

The share of the labour force seeking work without finding it — and it counts precarious work as 'employed'.

Population · 2025

37.1 mn

42nd largest of 217

The denominator of everything per-capita.

Exports · 2025

22.0%

145th highest of 193

How much of the economy is sold to the world — openness, measured on the way out.

Imports · 2025

35.4%

120th highest of 193

How much of demand is met from abroad — openness, measured on the way in.

FDI, net inflows · 2025

3.0%

75th highest of 202

Long-term foreign investment into real assets — a confidence signal that is hard to fake and slow to reverse.

Total reserves · 2024

$41.2 bn

54th largest of 179

The central bank's war chest for defending the currency and paying for imports.

Current account · 2025

-3.9%

134th highest of 200

The broadest external balance — trade plus income and remittances. Persistent deficits must be financed.

Government debt

No recent data reported

What the state owes relative to the economy carrying it. Reported patchily — gaps here are common.

Exchange rate · 2025

12579.4

7th highest of 213

How many units of local currency a dollar buys — a running vote of confidence.

Gini index · 2025

32.7

116th most unequal of 171

Inequality in one number: 0 is perfect equality, 100 is one person holding everything. Surveyed rarely.

Life expectancy · 2024

72.5

131st highest of 217

The single most honest summary of whether an economy serves its people.

Extreme poverty · 2025

2.3%

88th highest of 171

The share of people living below the international extreme-poverty line — the floor beneath every other economic statistic.

What these indicators can — and cannot — tell you: Economics, Explained

The long view

1990 – latest

GDPcurrent US$
050bn100bn19901995200020052010201520202025
GDP per capitacurrent US$
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GDP growthannual %
-10-50519901995200020052010201520202025
Inflation (CPI)annual %
0510152012201420162018202020222024

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