Health systems in transition : Uzbekistan

Table 1.5
Maternal, child and adolescent health indicators, 1980–2012, selected years
1980
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2012
Perinatal mortality per 1 000 live births
19.6
13.7
10.3
8.8
11.3
a
10.7
a
Neonatal mortality per 1 000 live births 
(World Bank estimate)
20.7
19.8
18.3
16.1
14.2
13.5
Neonatal mortality per 1 000 live births 
(national statistics)
a
6.6
6.1
Infant mortality per 1 000 live births 
(national statistics) 
42.9
34.3
26.3
19.1
15.0
11.1
a
9.8
a
Infant mortality per 1 000 live births 
(World Bank estimate)
86.9
60.5
56.9
51.3
43.1
36.7
34.4
Under-5 mortality per 1 000 (national statistics)
a
14.8
a
13.8
a
Under-5 mortality per 1 000 (World Bank estimate)
111.2
73.8
69
61.4
50.6
42.5
39.6
Maternal mortality rate per 100 000 live births
41.2
34.1
33.0
34.5
29.2
21.0
20.2
a
Maternal mortality rate per 100 000 live births 
(estimate)
66
54
48
44
40
36
Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1 000 women 
ages 15–19) (World Bank estimate)
41.0
55.9
56.4
50.0
49.3
42.8
38.8
Abortions per 1 000 live births
290.8
309.6
135.0
103.7
85.3
66.0
a
62.0
a
Sources
: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2014a; World Bank, 2014; 
a
State Committee on Statistics, 2013.
Note
: 1981 instead of 1980 for abortions, infant and maternal mortality, 1991 instead of 1990 for perinatal mortality.
Due to Ministry of Health immunization protocols and strict control of 
compliance, immunization rates have been traditionally high in Uzbekistan. 
However, similar to other countries of the region, there has been a resurgence 
of tuberculosis in the years since independence, as well as an increase in multi-
drug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, and HIV infections have 
increased steeply in the 2000s and early 2010s. Access to safe water remains 
another major problem, with significant differences across Uzbekistan’s regions.

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