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Area:
total: 447,400 sq km, land: 425,400 sq km, water:
22,000 sq km
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Language: Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1% Currency:
Sum (UZS), 1$≈1080 UZS (2005 est.)
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Population:
26,410,416 (July 2004 est.)
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Median age: total: 22.1 years, male:
21.4 years, female: 22.7 years (2004 est.)
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Population
Growth Rate: 1.65%
(2004 est.)
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Life Expectancy: total population: 64.09 years, male: 60.67 years, female:
67.69 years (2004 est.)
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Infant Mortality: total: 71.3 deaths/1,000 live births, male: 75.03
deaths/1,000 live births, female: 67.39 deaths/1,000 live births
(2004 est.)
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Per Capita: purchasing power parity -
$1,700 (2003 est.)
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GDP:
purchasing power parity - $43.99 billion (2003 est.)
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Real Annual GDP Growth: 3.1% (2003 est.)
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Annual
Inflation: 13.1% (2003 est.)
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Other Information
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Uzbekistan is a land
of ancient irrigative agriculture. The irrigative
agriculture is a basis for the food self-sufficiency of the Republic and a
source of export products. It provides more than 95 percent of the
aggregate plant growing.
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