Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is a resource-rich, doubly-landlocked country, strategically located in the heart of Central Asia. Its population of about 32 million (as recorded in the beginning of 2017), approximately half of which lives in urban areas. Uzbekistan’s population accounts for approximately 46 per cent of Central Asia‘s population of 68 mln people. In 2011 the World Bank re-classified Uzbekistan from a low-income to a lower middle-income nation.