Uzbekistan's trade (% of GDP) was 57.4% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 30.23 percentage points from 27.17% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 57.4% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 53.11% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 27.17% | 2015 |
| Highest | 79.75% | 2008 |
| Lowest | 25.69% | 2016 |
| Average since 2016 | 53.64% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 57.2% | 1997 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Uzbekistan's trade (% of GDP) fell 0.13 percentage points on 2024 (from 57.53% to 57.4%).
Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1998 to 2024), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.51 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 20.35 percentage points in 2018 and the biggest yearly fall was 24.53 percentage points in 2010. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.45 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 40% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Uzbekistan had the 95th highest value of the 137 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Uzbekistan | 57.4% | 2025 |
| World | 68.49% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 81.82% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 46.57% | 2025 |
Closest to Uzbekistan in the 2025 ranking
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 92nd of 137: 60.24%
- Ecuador — 93rd of 137: 59.36%
- Saudi Arabia — 94th of 137: 57.92%
- Rwanda — 96th of 137: 56.67%
- Côte d'Ivoire — 97th of 137: 54.56%
- Madagascar — 98th of 137: 54.24%
What this measures
Trade is the sum of exports and imports of goods and services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 29 values
| Year | Trade (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 57.4 |
| 2024 | 57.53 |
| 2023 | 63.1 |
| 2022 | 60.05 |
| 2021 | 54.75 |
| 2020 | 53.11 |
| 2019 | 62.3 |
| 2018 | 61.4 |
| 2017 | 41.04 |
| 2016 | 25.69 |
| 2015 | 27.17 |
Trade (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Albania — 79.53% (2025)
- Armenia — 101.71% (2025)
- Austria — 107.02% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 79.83% (2025)
- Belarus — 112.11% (2025)
- Belgium — 152.92% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 95.12% (2025)
- Bulgaria — 102.51% (2025)
- Croatia — 100.99% (2025)
- Cyprus — 189.5% (2025)
- Czechia — 128.04% (2025)
- Denmark — 129.22% (2025)
- Estonia
More economic policy & debt data for Uzbekistan
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 4.94% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$3.85 billion (2021)
- Adjusted savings, energy depletion (current US$) — US$5.86 billion (2021)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$) — US$24.35 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) — 306.29 trillion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant 2015 US$) — US$34.87 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant LCU) — 39.98 trillion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) — 16.56% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Uzbekistan's trade (% of GDP)?
- 57.4% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1997?
- It is up 0.2 percentage points from 57.2% in 1997. The highest value was 79.75% in 2008 and the lowest 25.69% in 2016.
- How does Uzbekistan rank?
- 95th highest of 137 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in trade (% of GDP) unusual for Uzbekistan?
- In 2025, Uzbekistan's trade (% of GDP) fell 0.13 percentage points on 2024 (from 57.53% to 57.4%). Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1998 to 2024), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.51 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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