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UZBEKISTAN





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POPULATION

Uzbekistan is Central Asia's most populous country. Its 31.1 million people  comprise nearly half the region's total population.

The population of Uzbekistan is very young: 34.1% of its people are younger than 14. According to official sources,Uzbeks comprise a majority (80%) of the total population. Other ethnic groups include Russians 5.5%, Tajiks 5%,Kazakhs 3%, Karakalpaks 2.5%, and Tatars 1.5%. 

Uzbekistan has an ethnic Korean population that was forcibly relocated to the region from the Soviet Far East in 1937-1938. There are also small groups of Armenians in Uzbekistan, mostly in Tashkent and Samarkand. The nation is 88% Muslim (mostly Sunni, with a 5% Shi'a minority), 9% Eastern Orthodox and 3% other faiths (which include small communities of Korean Christians, other Christian denominations, Buddhists, Baha'is, and more). TheBukharan Jews have lived in Central Asia, mostly in Uzbekistan, for thousands of years. There were 94,900 Jews inUzbekistan in 1989 (about 0.5% of the population according to the 1989 census), but now, since the collapse of the USSR, most Central Asian Jews left the region for theUnited States or Israel. Fewer than 5,000 Jews remain in Uzbekistan.

Sex ratio

at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15–64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female 

Life expectancy at birth

total population: 71.96 years
male: 68.95 years
female: 75.15 years 

Literacy

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.3%
male: 99.6%
female: 99% 

 

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