Uzbekistan deaths fall to five-year low for January-September
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Uzbekistan deaths fall to five-year low for January-September
Uzbekistan registered 123,400 deaths in the first nine months of 2026, down 6.7% from a year earlier and the lowest total for the period in five years, the National Statistics Committee said in a report released Tuesday.
The committee said 8,800 fewer people died from January through September than in the same stretch of 2025, when 132,200 deaths were recorded. The mortality rate stood at 4.2 per 1,000 people.
The 2026 total was lower than the figures for the same period in 2022 (130,200), 2023 (129,700), 2024 (131,700) and 2025.
Men made up 68,500 deaths, or 55.5%, while women accounted for 54,900, or 44.5%, a difference of 13,600. By residence, 65,700 of the deceased, or 53.2%, lived in urban areas, and 57,700, or 46.8%, in rural areas.
Live births came to 638,600 over the nine months, 26,000 fewer than a year earlier. The difference between births and deaths resulted in a natural population increase of 515,200, the committee said.
Uzbekistan reported 177,104 deaths in all of 2025, 2,700 more than in 2024. Diseases of the circulatory system made up the largest share that year, followed by tumors and respiratory diseases.