Uzbekistan
Republic of Uzbekistan
- Region
- Asia · Central Asia
- Capital
- Tashkent
- Population
- 37,053,428 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic; highly authoritarian
- Currency
- Uzbekistani soʻm (UZS)
- Official languages
- Russian, Uzbek
- Spoken languages
- Uzbek (official) 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1%
- Written scripts
- Cyrillic, Latin
- Area
- 447,400 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EAEU (observer), IMF, OIC, SCO, WCO, WTO (observer)
- Borders
- Afghanistan , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan
Political stability
65 / 100
Economic stability
36 / 100
Population stability
68 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, cotton yarn, garments, fertilizers, fabric (2023)
- Key imports
- cars, vehicle parts/accessories, packaged medicine, refined petroleum, aircraft (2023)
- Natural resources
- natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum
- Primary route
- Overland rail corridors to China and Russia
- Secondary route
- Caspian and Trans-Caspian ("Middle Corridor") routes to Europe
The xin.bz view
- Uzbekistan has a comparatively strong cereal outlook but imports higher-quality wheat, much of it from Kazakhstan, while surging domestic energy demand has flipped it toward buying more Russian and Turkmen gas — food and energy now move through the same regional system.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Increasing the World's Need for Eurasia — Geopolitics Will Decide What Gets Through
Russia's ~60M t exportable grain, Kazakh wheat and uranium, Belarusian potash, Turkmen gas, and the Middle Corridor — El Niño raises the world's need for Eurasia while geopolitics decides what gets through.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.