The "Diversity Visa" Lottery:
In the government fiscal year ending September 2015, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the State Department received about 9.4 million applications for Diversity Immigrant Visas.
The applications included petitions for another 5 million spouses and children who would be admitted to the U.S. with lottery winners, for a total of 14.4 million potential visa recipients.
About 125,000 of them were lottery-selected, giving them the right to apply for immigrant visas – a number that the State Department cut off at 50,000 on a first-come, first-served basis.
Uzbekistan was the 8th-highest represented nation among the lottery winners that year.
THE TOP TEN:
Cameroon: 5,000
Liberia: 5,000
Iran: 4,992
Egypt: 4,988
Ethiopia: 4,988
Democratic Republic of the Congo: 4,943
Ukraine: 4,679
Uzbekistan: 4,368
Russia: 4,103
Kenya: 3,534