<p>The article deals with the basic principles of a long-term strategy for improving the living standards of population, substantiates the requirements to ensure the living conditions and human capital development in the context of long-term modernization of the Uzbekistan economy and adjustment to international standards (Sustainable development goals) . The study offers tools and mechanisms for developing a long-term strategy to improve living standards, including a program-targeted approach, an interactive system of targeted forecasting (monitoring) of indicators of living standards and a social road map that presents a management plan and potential development directions, optimal ways to achieve the goal. It puts forward social and economic methods of analysis, <br /> development and improvement of the living standards that allow to determine the main trends, positive and negative implications of social risks, provide an opportunity to analyze the current situation in the social sphere, form various scenarios and options for strategic planning of living standards in relation to strategic goals.</p>