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Uzbekistan
Community
Area 447,400 square kilometres (land area 425,400 square kilometres)
Population,
6,300,000 (1950)
8,526,000 (1960)
12,080,000 (1970)
15,899,000 (1980)
20,510,000 (1990)
24,650,000 (2000)
28,562,000 (2010)
31,299,000 (2015)
32,955,000 (2018)
Ethnicity, %
|
|
Kazakh |
Russian |
Tajik |
Tatar |
Uzbek |
|
1959 |
|
13.5 |
|
|
62.1 |
|
1970 |
|
12.5 |
|
5.5 |
65.5 |
|
1979 |
|
10.8 |
3.9 |
4.2 |
68.7 |
|
1989 |
4.1 |
8.4 |
4.7 |
3.2 |
71.4 |
|
1998 |
4.1 |
6.0 |
4.8 |
1.6 |
75.8 |
|
2009 |
3.0 |
5.5 |
5.5 |
1.5 |
80.0 |
Religion, %,
|
|
Christian Orthodox |
Muslim |
No religion |
|
2000 |
9.0 |
88.0 |
|
|
2009 |
|
79.0 |
18.0 |
Birth and death rates Below replacement rate = 2.1
|
|
Fertility Rate |
Birth Rate |
Infant Mortality |
Death Rate |
% Aged Under 15 |
% Aged Over 65 |
% Urban |
|
1960 |
6.3 |
44.0 (+30.4) |
|
13.6 |
39.7 |
5.9 |
34.0 |
|
1970 |
6.3 |
37.0 (+26.5) |
|
10.5 |
45.2 |
5.9 |
36.7 |
|
1980 |
5.1 |
34.0 (+26.5) |
90.3 |
7.5 |
40.7 |
5.2 |
40.8 |
|
1990 |
4.2 |
34.0 (+28.0) |
59.4 |
6.0 |
40.7 |
4.1 |
40.2 |
|
2000 |
2.6 |
21.0 (+15.5) |
52.5 |
5.5 |
37.3 |
4.6 |
37.4 |
|
2010 |
2.3 |
23.0 (+18.1) |
31.7 |
4.9 |
29.1 |
4.5 |
36.2 |
|
2015 |
2.5 |
23.5 (+18.6) |
22.9 |
4.9 |
28.1 |
4.2 |
36.4 |
|
2016 |
|
|
21.4 |
|
28.0 |
4.3 |
36.5 |
|
2017 |
2.5 |
22.1 (+17.1) |
20.2 |
5.0 |
|
|
|
|
2018 |
|
|
19.1 |
|
28.7 |
4.4 |
|
Life expectancy,
58.7 (1960); 55.1 (M), 62.5 (F)
62.2 (1970); 58.7 (M), 65.9 (F)
64.5 (1980); 61.1 (M), 68.0 (F)
66.3 (1990); 63.4 (M); 69.4 (F)
67.1 (2000); 64.0 (M), 70.4 (F)
70.0 (2010); 67.2 (M), 72.9 (F)
71.1 (2015); 68.5 (M), 74.0 (F)
71.7 (2020); 69.6 (M), 73.9 (F)
Population of principal cities,
|
|
Bukhara |
TASHKENT |
|
1890 |
|
122,000 |
|
1900 |
70,000 |
|
|
1965 |
|
1,150,000 |
|
1983 |
|
1,092,000 |
|
1990 |
228,000 |
2,121,000 |
|
2000 |
|
2,133,000 |
|
2009 |
|
2,184,000 |
|
2012 |
|
2,309,600 |
|
2016 |
247,644 |
|
Wealth; Gross Domestic Product (nominal values)
|
|
GDP, US$ million |
Total GDP, % of USA |
GDP per capita, US$ |
GDP per capita % of USA |
|
1990 |
13,360 |
0.23 |
651 |
2.72 |
|
1995 |
13,350 |
0.18 |
586 |
1.95 |
|
2000 |
13,760 |
0.14 |
558 |
1.53 |
|
2005 |
13,700 |
0.10 |
547 |
1.23 |
|
2010 |
39,333 |
0.26 |
1,377 |
2.85 |
|
2015 |
66,900 |
0.37 |
2,140 |
3.81 |
|
2016 |
67,220 |
0.36 |
2,110 |
3.67 |
GDP by primary sector
|
|
Agriculture % GDP |
Agriculture % employed |
Industry % GDP |
Industry % employed |
Services % GDP |
Services % employed |
|
1993 |
22.9 |
44.1 |
26.6 |
14.5 |
50.5 |
45.4 |
|
1998 |
31.2 |
44.0 |
27.0 |
20.0 |
42.9 |
36.0 |
|
2000 |
33.0 |
|
24.0 |
|
43.0 |
|
|
2006 |
26.1 |
|
27.4 |
|
46.5 |
|
|
2012 |
|
25.9 |
|
13.2 |
|
60.9 |
|
2016 |
18.5 |
|
34.6 |
|
46.8 |
|
Communications
Language Official; Uzbek.� Russian and Tajik also spoken.� Arabic script was used prior to 1929.� From 1929 to 1940, Roman letters were used; from 1940 to 1994 Cyrillic script was in use.� From 1994, Roman letters have been in use again.
|
|
Russian |
Tajik |
Uzbek |
|
1990 |
8.0 |
8.0 |
71.0 |
Literacy
98.3% (1985)
99.1% (1995)
99.3% (2000); 99.6% (M), 98.9% (F)
99.9% (2015 and afterwards)
Physical communications � roads and railways, The Tashkent to Samarkand railway was built 1895-7. A railway opened to Tashkent from Orenburg in 1904.
|
|
Roads (km) |
Surfaced (km) |
Cars |
Commercial Vehicles |
Railways (km) |
Electrified % |
|
1959 |
|
8,700 |
|
|
2,249 |
|
|
1968 |
28,700 |
19,700 |
|
|
2,800 |
|
|
1978 |
51,900 |
31,800 |
|
|
3,300 |
|
|
1990 |
73,100 |
64,000 |
|
|
3,460 |
|
|
2000 |
86,496 |
75,511 |
|
|
3,645 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
|
|
3,986 |
15.5 |
|
2010 |
|
|
|
|
4,200 |
|
|
2016 |
|
|
|
|
4,304 |
31.5 |
Urban metro systems, kilometres
Tashkent, (opened 1977)
36.2 km (2010, 2015)
Electronic communications
|
|
Telephones (landlines) |
Mobile Telephones |
Radios |
Televisions |
PCs |
Internet Users |
|
1975 |
350,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1980 |
580,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1990 |
1,403,000 |
|
7,000,000 |
100,000 |
|
|
|
1993 |
|
500 |
|
|
|
|
|
1995 |
|
3,731 |
10,300,000 |
6,125,000 |
|
|
|
2000 |
1,655,000 |
53,128 |
11,300,000 |
6,900,000 |
|
7,500 |
|
2005 |
|
720,000 |
|
|
|
750,000 |
|
2010 |
1,864,000 |
12,750,000 |
|
|
|
6,000,000 |
|
2012 |
1,963,000 |
23,265,000 |
|
|
|
13,800,000 |
|
2016 |
|
|
|
|
|
15,500,000 |
Tourism: Visitors to Uzbekistan,
92,000 (1995)
302,000 (2000)
242,000 (2005)
975,000 (2010)