Uzbekistan
GDP per capita to 2060, by scenario
Constant-rate scenario path; the 2060 endpoint levels are illustrative, not forecasts.
Factor profile
They earn from what cannot be sent down a wire: visitors who come, and workers abroad who send money home.
How this economy meets AI
Today’s production, workforce and automation baseline — context for the scenarios, outside the AGI Growth Index.
Where output comes from (% of GDP)
Where people work (% of employment)
Informal employment
Current automation exposure
Production is relatively manufacturing-intensive. Near-term effects depend on machinery, robotics, supply chains, energy and firms’ capacity to reorganize production, as well as on language models.
Sources: World Bank WDI; ILOSTAT; Global Automation Atlas (Garg, Crosta & Baier, 2026). The latest available year is shown for each measure; vintages differ, so shares may not sum to 100.
Where Uzbekistan starts
Uzbekistan is a conditional demographic giant: its scale and youth are the asset, but only if power, connectivity and capital arrive in time. The scores show both sides. Physical build speed is 4.8 out of 5, near the top of any country, and demographics score 4.4 — a population of 37 million with the youngest base in Central Asia. Since 2016 it has reformed faster than any neighbor, freeing its currency and courting foreign investors. Real assets back this: Navoi's Masdar solar plants, the Muruntau gold mine, a large textile industry, and IT Park Uzbekistan in Tashkent. What is missing is what growth will need. Compute and energy access scores just 1.1, the lowest of its high-weight factors, and climate resilience is 1.7. At roughly $3,968 per person, this lower-middle-income economy cannot build compute alone. Ten-year trend growth is 5.8% a year.
The three paths
These are simulations, not forecasts. The Modest path is the baseline; the two AGI scenarios fork from it. Under the Modest scenario, AI stays a normal technology. Uzbekistan would grow at 6% growth a year, ranking 12th of 157 — high, because its reform momentum and youth outpace a slow-moving world. That rate doubles the economy in about twelve years. Under Gradual takeoff, growth would climb over two decades and reach 11% a year once AGI matures around 2045, ranking 44th. An economy growing at 11% doubles in under seven years. Under Fast takeoff, growth would reach 12.5% a year from the early 2030s, a doubling every six years. Yet Uzbekistan's rank would slip to 60th. A fast world rewards the compute and frontier access Uzbekistan does not hold, so faster-building rivals pull ahead even as its own growth rises. Regulation and politics could slow or redirect any of these paths. How Uzbeks and their government respond to transformative AI is a variable the model holds constant.
How you would know which world you are in
The scenarios look almost the same until about 2030. So watch leading indicators, not GDP, and watch them live. Three global signals matter most. First, whether the METR task horizon curve keeps doubling every four to five months through 2027–28; METR publishes it at metr.org. Second, whether frontier lab revenue and capital spending keep compounding; Epoch AI tracks both at epoch.ai. Third, whether growth in the ten to twenty most-ready economies — the United States and China above all — breaks above trend in the early 2030s. Double-digit growth there within a couple of years of 2030 would signal a fast world. A point or two above trend by the mid-2030s would signal a gradual one. A fade back to trend would signal a modest one. Uzbekistan's own signals would arrive earlier than the GDP data: hyperscaler or partner hosting commitments on Uzbek soil, financial close on new power and nuclear projects, chip-import agreements, and the order books at IT Park's outsourcing firms.
If growth goes explosive
Explosive is relative. At 11 to 12.5% growth a year, Uzbekistan would still trail the frontier, where the United States could be compounding at 19.5% or even 39.2%. But it would run well ahead of its own history and its region, whose median growth would sit around 8%. The economy would double roughly every six years, so a child starting school today would finish it in a country several times richer. Manufacturing and services could deepen, and rising wages at home would ease the pressure for young Uzbeks to seek work abroad. There is a way this leaves Uzbekistan worse off, and it is worth naming. With compute access at 1.1 and geopolitical positioning at 2, Uzbekistan could end up renting all its computing from whichever power supplies it, and its economic alignment would follow its model supply. Capacity financed and controlled abroad can be throttled or repriced elsewhere. The hedge is to diversify suppliers and move from renting toward owning capacity. Even then, the pace-setter would shift to the state, testing how fast ministries, hokims and courts can permit, adjudicate and count.
What Uzbekistan can do now
Three levers follow from the scores, and two of them pay off whether or not AGI arrives. The first is AI diffusion, at 3 and already a relative strength. Digital skills, permissive deployment and digital government carry real weight even in the skeptic's world, so building on them is a no-regret move a cautious government can make today. The second is geopolitical positioning, at 2. Keeping access to capital markets and trusted-partner chip frameworks, and avoiding sanctions exposure, pays off under every scenario — a second no-regret step. The third lever is the bet. Compute and energy access, at 1.1, barely moves growth if AI stays ordinary, but under a fast takeoff it becomes Uzbekistan's single biggest lever. Closing it means fast-tracking grid and generation, including the planned nuclear and solar projects, and packaging power and land to draw data center investment a $3,968-per-person economy cannot finance alone. Uzbekistan can adapt a proven model from its archetype: India built shared digital public infrastructure that put identity and payments within reach of everyone. Open the atlas's policy editor to see how moving these scores reshapes each path.
Use the policy editor to test how different factor scores change Uzbekistan’s modeled path. The roadmap builder below can then incorporate those targets into a 1,000-day planning prompt.
Drafted with Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, from the atlas’s data and an editorial template set by the author.
Create a 1000-day AGI and growth roadmap prompt
This prompt can be used with Claude, ChatGPT or an open-weight model hosted on your institution’s systems. It includes the atlas material for Uzbekistan: the country brief, economic structure, region, archetype and global scenarios. It instructs the model to ask for local information, use existing strategies and the political calendar, and preserve the atlas’s interpretation rules. The prompt is assembled in your browser; the information entered here is not sent elsewhere.
1 · Read the brief → 2 · Set targets in the policy editor → 3 · Generate and copy the prompt → 4 · Run it with an approved model, with high reasoning effort and web access where permitted
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