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Uzbekistan's Open Data Portal — From a 2015 Cabinet Resolution to a Top-50 World Ranking

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Uzbekistan legally mandated open government data in 2015 and put its State Statistics Committee in charge in 2019. Independent Kun.uz reporting found its Open Data Inventory score jump from 19 to 63 in two years — the fastest climb of any country that cycle.

19 to 63 index points
Open Data Inventory (ODIN) score (2018 to 2020)
125 positions, to 44th place rank
Global ODIN ranking climb (2018–2020 cycle)
10,000+ datasets
Datasets hosted on the national portal (as of 2026)
150+ organisations
Contributing organisations (as of 2026)
6th rank
Self-reported world ranking by number of open-data sources (self-reported)

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Period
2015 (Cabinet Resolution No. 232) – 2019 (Presidential Decree PP-4273) – 2020 (ODIN milestone)
Keywords
digital government, open data, official statistics, public sector reform

Context

Uzbekistan's open data programme rests on two legal acts: Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 232 of 7 August 2015, on improving the government portal's provision of open data, and Presidential Decree PP-4273 of 9 April 2019, which put the State Committee on Statistics in charge of coordinating, maintaining and updating the country's list of open datasets.

Activities

The resulting national portal, data.gov.uz, now hosts more than 10,000 freely downloadable datasets from over 150 organisations, spanning education, health, the economy, population, culture and justice, in CSV, Excel, XML, JSON and RDF formats, navigable in Uzbek, Russian and English with no registration required. The government has also run hackathons to popularise the portal among software developers.

Results

Independent reporting from Uzbek outlet Kun.uz on the 2020 Open Data Inventory (ODIN) found the country's score jumped from 19 in 2018 to 63 in 2020 — a climb of 125 positions to 44th place worldwide and first in Central Asia, one of the two largest gains of any country that cycle.

Conclusions

Uzbekistan's own State Statistics Committee has additionally reported a 6th-place world ranking by number of open-data sources and a 'Very High' rating on the UN's Open Government Data Index in both the 2020 and 2022 E-Government Surveys — claims consistent with, though not identical to, the independently verified ODIN gain.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — 2015 Cabinet Resolution No. 232 establishes the open-data mandate; 2019 Presidential Decree PP-4273 assigns the State Statistics Committee as coordinator; 2020 ODIN score milestone.
Staffing & skills
State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 150+ contributing government organisations

Conditions for success

  • Sequenced legal mandate: Cabinet Resolution (2015) followed by a Presidential Decree (2019) assigning a single accountable coordinating agency
  • Multilingual portal access (Uzbek, Russian, English) with no registration barrier
  • Public hackathons to drive developer adoption

Common failure modes

  • Coordination concentrated in a single state agency, with no documented structured private-sector or civil-society co-design

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