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Islam Karimov

Islam Karimov

Legacy

🇺🇿Uzbekistan

Rank #295
Score: 46
About Islam Karimov

Islam Karimov (1938–2016) was Uzbekistan’s first post-Soviet president (1991–2016). He consolidated strong presidential rule, pursued state-led development of energy and cotton sectors, and maintained tight political control; his era brought stability but was marked by serious human-rights abuses and restrictions on political freedoms.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
Uzbekistan HDI (country) — historical / country context (UNDP)6/10
Source: UNDP Human Development — Uzbekistan country data (2016)
GDP per capita
Uzbekistan GDP per capita (historical context) — nominal data series6/10
Source: World Bank — Uzbekistan GDP per capita (historical) (2016)
Gini coefficient
Gini index (country historical context) ~31.2 (proxy)3/10
Source: TheGlobalEconomy — Uzbekistan Gini index (2005)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio (historical country context)3/5
Source: World Bank / ILO — historical estimates (2015)
Freedom index
Freedom House — Karimov era: very limited political freedoms and systemic repression (score: very low)1/10
Source: Freedom House — historical reporting on Uzbekistan (Karimov era) (2015)
Corruption index
Corruption perception during Karimov era — historically low CPI context1/5
Source: Transparency International — historical CPI reports (2015)

Derived Criminal Score
Karimov-era repression and documented human-rights abuses (treated as notable cases in human-rights reporting; no impartial convictions)20/20
Source: Human-rights reports and historical reporting (Amnesty, HRW) (1991)