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Figure 3: GDP per capita and Population Share by Oblast, 2013

 

 

 

Source: Official statistics provided by the Government of Uzbekistan. 

 

Development Challenges 

 

18. 

Despite Uzbekistan’s success, quality job creation emerges as a central, cross-cutting 

theme of the SCD. Over the medium term, creating high-productivity, high-paying jobs for 

Uzbekistan’s growing population will be vital to sustaining economic growth, reinforcing social 

stability, and enabling further improvements in the welfare of the bottom 40 percent households. 

These higher-paying jobs will come as Uzbekistan transitions from a factor-driven economy to an 

efficiency-driven economy. SCD also pointed to significant opportunities to further develop 

infrastructure (especially in energy, water and transportation) and to strengthen the management 

of those sectors and make efficiency gains. Within this development framework some pressing 

development challenges have been identified.  

19.