An estimated 55,000 people in the United States identified as Uzbek in 2023, according to estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau.1 Uzbek Americans are the 18th-largest Asian origin population living in the U.S., accounting for approximately 0.2% of the country’s Asian population.
The Uzbek population includes people living in the United States who self-identify as Uzbek. This includes people who trace their or their family’s origins to Uzbekistan, including immigrants from Uzbekistan and those born in the U.S. or elsewhere. It also includes people who identify as Uzbek alone and no other race or Asian origin – who account for 47% of the population – as well as people who identify as Uzbek in combination with any other race, ethnicity or Asian origin.
Due to data limitations, the following facts about the Uzbek population are based on people who identify as Uzbek alone and no other race or Asian origin.
This fact sheet is a profile of the geographic, social and demographic, and economic characteristics of the Uzbek-alone population in the U.S. It at times compares the characteristics of Uzbek Americans with characteristics of the U.S. Asian population overall. These detailed tabulations are based on Pew Research Center analysis of the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS). (For more information, refer to the methodology.)
Detailed tables: U.S. Asian population data by origin groups
Population
About 25,000 people in the U.S. identify as Uzbek alone and no other race or Asian origin, according to Center analysis of the 2023 ACS. This is the first year that Uzbek respondents were identified separately from other Asian origin groups in the IPUMS ACS data.
Immigrants made up 63% of the Uzbek-alone population in the U.S. in 2023, or 17,000 people. By comparison, 54% of the overall U.S. Asian population were immigrants in 2023.
Uzbek population in the U.S., 2023
U.S. Uzbek (alone) population, by nativity
| Year | Total | Immigrant | U.S. born |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 25,000 | 17,000 | 10,000 |
Source: Pew Research Center analysis of the 2023 American Community Survey (IPUMS).
Note: The population shown includes only those who identify as Uzbek alone and no other race or Asian origin. All figures are rounded according to rules shown in the methodology.
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Geography
- 15,000 out of the nation’s Uzbek-alone population of 25,000, or 57%, live in New York.
- Other states with large Uzbek populations are Pennsylvania (2,000), Kentucky (2,000), Florida (1,000) and Massachusetts (1,000).
- Metropolitan areas with the largest Uzbek populations include the New York (16,000), Louisville, Kentucky (2,000) and Philadelphia (2,000) metro areas.
Age
- The median age of Uzbeks is 26.3, younger than the median age of Asians overall (34.7).
- Among Uzbek Americans, 40% of the population is under 18 years old, and 3% are 65 and older.
Poverty status
- 15% of Uzbeks in the U.S. are living in poverty. Among Asians overall, the share living in poverty is 10%.
Note: Some topics covered for other Asian origin groups are not shown for the Uzbek population because of insufficient sample size in the surveys used.
Find out more
Explore fact sheets on other Asian origin groups in the U.S.
For detailed information on the data and analysis used for these fact sheets, read the methodology.
This fact sheet was written and compiled by Carolyne Im, research analyst.
The following individuals provided research and editorial guidance: Jens Manuel Krogstad, senior writer and editor; Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research; Sahana Mukherjee, associate director of race and ethnicity research; Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer; Neil G. Ruiz, head of new research initiatives; and Ziyao Tian, research associate. Research Assistants Alexandra Cahn and Gracie Martinez and Research Associates Luis Noe-Bustamante, Khadijah Edwards and Tian provided research support.
This fact sheet was produced by Sara Atske, digital producer. It was copy edited by David Kent, senior copy editor. John Carlo Mandapat, information graphics designer, provided guidance on charts. The communications and outreach strategy was led by Tanya Arditi, senior communications manager, with support from Talia Price, communications associate.
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