In 2025, Uzbek courts heard over 4 million cases, 4,766 of which were heard by the Supreme Court, the First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases Alisher Usmanov stated at a press conference on February 4.

From January to December of last year, the following was the workload of judges:

• over 2 million civil cases;
• 63,000 criminal cases;
• 91,800 cases arising from criminal cases;
• 691,000 cases of administrative offenses;
• over 357,000 cases arising from offense cases;
• 51,200 sanctions and coercive measures;
• over 690,000 economic cases;
• 18,400 disputes related to decisions and actions of government agencies.

"As the country's socioeconomic development, legal literacy, and legal awareness are rising, the number of suits to courts are rising, and the average workload for judges is also growing. Thus, in 2025, the average monthly workload for judges was: 556 civil cases, 388 economic cases, and 380 investigative judges," noted Alisher Usmanov.

According to him, only 3.3% of the more than 4 million cases reviewed were appealed to higher courts; in the remaining 96.7%, the parties agreed with the courts' decisions.

"According to the law, the timeframe for reviewing a case is one or two months. To meet these deadlines, judges work unrealistically. Last year, World Bank experts, after reviewing our database, asked: 'How are your courts actually reviewing 4 million cases?'" "By international standards, 16 cases can be reviewed per month, whereas we have 532," said Shukhrat Polvanov, First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases.

He added that in countries like the United States and India, applicants are placed on a waiting list when applying to court. In Uzbekistan, the time allotted for review is one to two months. Shukhrat Polvanov said that compared to 2024, the overall number of cases reviewed has increased by 37%, and by 50% in civil courts.

"Various factors influence this, and the Supreme Court regularly analyzes them. For the past four years, 100 judge positions have been allocated annually; this year, 60 of them were assigned to civil courts," Polvanov added.

According to him, for 38 million people, Uzbekistan has 1,700 judges, with only 45 judges per million population in the country, a far cry from the global average of 150 judges per million population

In contrast, the USA has 150 judges per million population, according to a January 2024 New York Times news report, and Europe had an average of 220 judges per million in 2022, according to an October 2024 Council of Europe report.