Performance materiality : The amount or amounts set by the auditor at less than materiality for the financial statements as a whole to reduce to an appropriately low level the probability that the aggregate of uncorrected and undetected misstatements exceeds materiality for the financial statements as a whole.
1 The current population of Uzbekistan is 30,319,857 as of Wednesday, July 20, 2016, based on the latest United Nations estimates. 2  Uzbekistan population is equivalent to 0.41% of the total world population.  Uzbekistan ranks number 45 in the list of countries by population.
Central Asia's five former Soviet republics are Kazakhstan (pop. 18 million), Kyrgyzstan (5.7 million), Tajikistan (8.0 million), Turkmenistan (5.2 million), and Uzbekistan (30 million), giving the region a total population of about 66 million. Although not a former Soviet republic, Afghanistan (pop. 29 million) is also sometimes included. Central Asia has historically been closely tied to its nomadic peoples and the Silk Road. It has acted as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and ideas between Europe, Western Asia, South Asia, and East Asia.