- ISO 3166
UZ- Main language + region
uz-UZ- Currency
- UZS · Uzbekistani Som
- Region
- CIS
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has 36.5M people, and 32.7M of them are online. Uzbek is the most widely spoken language at 85%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Uzbek and Uzbek are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to uz-UZ.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
32.7M
0%world median 81%100%
90% of 36.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,968
Higher than 29% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
60%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Uzbek 85% · Uzbek 15% · Russian 14%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
99%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Uzbekistan
share of 36.5M people
- Uzbekofficial85%31M
- Uzbekofficial15%5.5M
- Russian14%5.1M
- Kara-Kalpak2.1%766.9K
- Turkish0.7%226.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Uzbek in 3 territories and 38.9M speakers in total; Uzbekistan holds 94% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Uzbek profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (uz-UZ).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21-aprel, 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 soʻm
1,234.56 in UZS · Uzbekistani Som