The key facts

  • In the first nine months of 2026, 6,398 people left for permanent residence abroad, versus 14,666 in the same period of 2023.
  • The statistical peak of emigration came in 2011 — 50,816 people.
  • The number of departures has been falling for the third year in a row: 10,842 in 2024 and 10,117 in 2025.

Emigration for permanent residence continues to decline

From January to September 2026, 6,398 people left Uzbekistan for other countries for permanent residence. This is 2.3 times fewer than in the same period of 2023, when 14,666 people left the country. The National Statistics Committee reports these figures, which Daryo.uz cites.

Dynamics of recent years

According to the agency's analysis, in January–September 2024, 8,374 people left for permanent residence abroad, and in the first nine months of 2025 — 7,585. Thus, the decline is observed for the third year in a row, and the nine-month figure for 2026 is already lower than the full-year totals of 2024 and 2025.

A decade of context

The gap with the previous decade is more noticeable: in all of 2016, 28,069 people left the country, after which the figure generally declined — from 20,772 in 2017 to 8,790 in 2022, with a local rise to 17,336 in 2023. According to the National Statistics Committee, in 2010–2015 the outflow was significantly higher: the peak came in 2011 with 50,816 departures, while the lowest year in that period was 2015 — 31,765 people.

What is known and what is missing from the data

The publications rely on the committee's statistics; the primary tables are posted on the stat.uz website and in the siat.stat.uz system. The sources themselves do not explain the reasons for the decline in permanent-residence departures and do not provide a breakdown by destination countries. Daryo.uz previously reported on another demographic trend as well: in Uzbekistan, the birth rate and the number of marriages have been declining for three years in a row, while the number of divorces is growing.