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How Many Americans Live in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan's migration statistics are built for a country people leave rather than move to, and Americans fall below every reporting threshold. The clearest US series it publishes counts entries at the border.

36.4M
Uzbekistan's Population
The Point of Reference

The American Emigration Revue counts US citizensPeople holding United States citizenship, as counted by Uzbekistan's own official records. A separate population from US-born residents; the two are never added. Definitions ›, US-born residentsPeople born in the United States living in Uzbekistan, whatever citizenship they hold today. A separate population from US citizens; the two are never added. Definitions ›, naturalizations and long-term permits from official government sources, with every figure cited. This page sets out what Uzbekistan publishes, what it does not, and how far the published record can be trusted.

Dual citizenship
Not recognized
Americans must renounce US citizenship
Years to naturalize
5 yrs
minimum residency requirement
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Why Uzbekistan's Records, Not Washington's

The Context

The context every page needs: who counts Americans abroad, and who doesn't.

The United States publishes no count of its own citizens abroad. Its best federal figure, 3.3 million Americans worldwide, is a statistical model built to size the overseas electorate, and the same model said 4.4 million two years earlier. The Census Bureau decided in 1976 to exclude private Americans abroad from the decennial enumeration (overseas federal employees and military are still counted). What Washington publishes instead is fragments: Social Security checks mailed to foreign addresses, tax returns claiming foreign income, quarterly lists of people who gave up their citizenship. See what each federal source actually counts ›

So this project counts from the receiving side. Every figure on this page comes from records Uzbekistan itself publishes, read under the same rules applied to every country in the project. Where Uzbekistan publishes, it is counted and cited. Where it does not, the gap is shown rather than filled: no estimates, no models. How openly each country reports ›

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What the Research Found

The Findings

Findings from the Uzbekistan research, drawn from the official record.

Findings
by Daniel ATZ
The central finding of this mapping exercise is that Uzbekistan's publicly available migration statistics do not separately identify U.S. nationals in any residence, permit, or population stock dataset.
The National Statistics Committee (NSC) publishes annual immigration totals disaggregated by administrative region but not by nationality.
U.S. nationals are categorized under 'other countries' in demographic reports, alongside all non-CIS Western nationalities.
The most detailed publicly available data on U.S. nationals comes from NSC tourism/entry statistics, which separately identify U.S. citizens by purpose of travel.
These statistics, reported via Yuz.uz (April 2025) and UzDaily.uz (February 2026) citing NSC primary data, show that 2,100 U.S. citizens entered Uzbekistan across all purposes in January and February 2025, and 1,642 entered in January 2026, a 39.4% year-on-year increase.
What the Public Record Says
Data transparency1.0 out of 5 (low confidence) — how much Uzbekistan publishes about resident Americans, how often, and how easily the figures can be checked. Scored under How Far to Trust These Figures below.
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How Far to Trust These Figures

The Publishing Record

What Uzbekistan publishes, how often it publishes, and the sources behind every number on this page.

What We Know · What’s Missing
Low confidence · transparency 1.0/5
Inflows
Permits
US-Born
Citizens
Naturalizations
published every yearone-off figurenot published

The gaps: No US-disaggregated official publication identified for this country.

Sources & Datasets
4 publishing authorities

Every figure on this page comes from one of the publishers below. Links go to the authority and, where stable, straight to the dataset.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Quick Answers

Every answer is drawn from the official record, from the same sources cited across this page.

Does Uzbekistan recognize dual citizenship with the United States?
No. Uzbekistan does not generally recognize dual citizenship with the United States; naturalizing typically means giving up US citizenship.National Statistics Committee (NSC / UzStat)
Where do the figures for Americans in Uzbekistan come from?
Every figure on this page comes from Uzbekistan's own official publishers: National Statistics Committee (NSC / UzStat), Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), and Agency for External Labour Migration. These are counts those bodies published themselves, not estimates or projections. Where Uzbekistan publishes nothing, the page says so rather than filling the gap. Uzbekistan's published record scores 1.0 out of 5 for transparency, which measures how much it publishes, how often, and how easily the figures can be checked.National Statistics Committee (NSC / UzStat)
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