Uzbekistan ranked 105th in the UN Human Development Index (HDI) for 2018. The HDI is a statistic of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores higher HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the GDP per capita is higher.
Uzbekistan’s HDI value for 2017 is 0.710— which put the country in the high human development category—positioning it at 105 out of 189 countries and territories. Between 2000 and 2017, Uzbekistan’s HDI value increased from 0.595 to 0.710, an increase of 19.3 percent. Table A reviews Uzbekistan’s progress in each of the HDI indicators. Between 1990 and 2017, Uzbekistan’s life expectancy at birth increased by 4.9 years, mean years of schooling increased by 2.4 years and expected years of schooling increased by 0.7 years. Uzbekistan’s GNI per capita increased by about 233.5 percent between 1990 and 2017
Uzbekistan’s 2017 HDI of 0.710 is below the average of 0.757 for countries in the high human development group and below the average of 0.771 for countries in Europe and Central Asia. From Europe and Central Asia, countries which are close to Uzbekistan in 2017 HDI rank and to some extent in population size are Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which have HDIs ranked 122 and 127 respectively.
