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Tajikistan
Community
Area 143,100 square kilometres (land area 141,510 square kilometres)
Population,
1,485,091 (1939)
1,530,000 (1950)
2,087,000 (1960)
2,930,000 (1970)
3,905,000 (1980)
5,283,000 (1990)
6,216,000 (2000)
7,527,000 (2010)
8,454,000 (2015)
9,101,000 (2018)
Ethnicity and Religion, %
|
|
Kyrgyz |
Russian & Ukrainian |
Tajik |
Uzbek |
Muslim All |
Muslim Shia |
|
1960 |
|
14.7 |
53.0 |
23.0 |
|
|
|
1970 |
|
12.0 |
56.2 |
23.0 |
|
|
|
1979 |
|
10.4 |
58.8 |
22.9 |
|
|
|
1989 |
|
7.6 |
62.3 |
23.5 |
|
|
|
2000 |
1.1 |
1.1 |
79.9 |
15.3 |
|
|
|
2010 |
|
|
84.3 |
13.8 |
85.0 |
5.0 |
Birth and death rates Below replacement rate = 2.1
|
|
Fertility Rate |
Birth Rate |
Infant Mortality |
Death Rate |
% Aged Under 15 |
% Aged Over 65 |
% Urban |
|
1960 |
6.5 |
48.6 (+34.2) |
|
15.4 |
39.9 |
4.8 |
33.2 |
|
1970 |
7.0 |
42.4 (+30.2) |
|
12.2 |
46.0 |
5.1 |
36.9 |
|
1975 |
6.4 |
50.3 (+39.3) |
107.4 |
11.0 |
44.4 |
4.7 |
35.5 |
|
1980 |
5.7 |
40.6 (+30.3) |
101.0 |
10.3 |
42.8 |
4.6 |
34.3 |
|
1990 |
5.2 |
40.6 (+30.9) |
80.7 |
9.7 |
43.8 |
3.8 |
31.7 |
|
2000 |
4.0 |
30.1 (+23.1) |
67.8 |
7.0 |
42.5 |
3.6 |
26.5 |
|
2010 |
3.6 |
30.1 (+25.6) |
37.3 |
5.5 |
35.7 |
3.3 |
26.5 |
|
2015 |
3.6 |
29.3 (+24.1) |
32.9 |
5.2 |
35.8 |
3.0 |
26.8 |
|
2016 |
|
|
32.1 |
|
|
|
26.9 |
|
2017 |
3.6 |
31.4 (+26.3) |
31.3 |
5.1 |
|
|
|
|
2018 |
|
|
30.4 |
|
36.8 |
3.0 |
|
Life expectancy,
56.1 (1960); 53.8 (M), 58.6 (F)
60.0 (1970); 57.7 (M), 62.4 (F)
62.5 (1980); 60.2 (M), 65.0 (F)
63.1 (1990); 59.8 (M), 66.6 (F)
65.5 (2000); 62.5 (M), 68.8 (F)
69.8 (2010); 67.0 (M), 72.8 (F)
71.2 (2020); 69.0 (M), 73.5 (F)
Population of principal cities,
|
|
DUSHANBE1 |
Khujand2 |
|
1926 |
6,000 |
|
|
1960 |
300,000 |
80,000 |
|
1970 |
|
110,000 |
|
1980 |
|
125,000 |
|
1990 |
592,000 |
165,000 |
|
2000 |
562,000 |
|
|
2009 |
704,000 |
|
|
2014 |
778,500 |
172,700 |
1Known as Stalinabad between 1929 and 1969
2Formerly Leninabad
Wealth; Gross Domestic Product (nominal values)
|
|
GDP, US$ million |
Total GDP, % of USA |
GDP per capita, US$ |
GDP per capita % of USA |
|
1990 |
2,620 |
0.05 |
500 |
2.09 |
|
1995 |
1,230 |
0.02 |
213 |
0.71 |
|
2000 |
860 |
0.01 |
138 |
0.38 |
|
2005 |
2,500 |
0.02 |
340 |
0.77 |
|
2010 |
5,640 |
0.04 |
740 |
1.53 |
|
2015 |
7,850 |
0.04 |
920 |
1.64 |
|
2016 |
6,950 |
0.04 |
795 |
1.38 |
GDP by primary sector
|
|
Agriculture % GDP |
Agriculture % employed |
Industry % GDP |
Industry % employed |
Services % GDP |
Services % employed |
|
2000 |
24.3 |
67.0 |
24.0 |
8.0 |
51.7 |
25.0 |
|
2010 |
18.1 |
49.8 |
22.4 |
12.8 |
59.4 |
37.4 |
|
2016 |
27.8 |
43.0 |
25.9 |
10.6 |
46.3 |
46.4 |
Communications
Language, % Official = Tajik.� Written in Arabic script until 1930, then changed to Roman script.� In 1940 the Cyrillic script was adopted, but after 1992 there was a return to the Arab script again.
|
|
Russian |
Tajik |
Uzbek |
|
1990 |
10.0 |
59.0 |
23.0 |
Literacy
97.2% (1985)
99.0% (1995)
99.3% (2000); 99.6% (M), 98.9% (F)
99.8% (2015); 99.8% (M), 99.7% (F)
Physical communications � roads and railways
|
|
Roads (km) |
Surfaced (km) |
Motor vehicles |
Cars |
Commercial Vehicles |
Railways (km) |
|
1960 |
|
2,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
1970 |
13,000 |
6,700 |
|
|
|
|
|
1980 |
|
10,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
1990 |
|
17,700 |
|
|
|
480 |
|
1996 |
|
|
8,820 |
|
|
|
|
2000 |
27,767 |
|
|
|
|
533 |
|
2007 |
|
|
|
193,000 |
59,000 |
|
|
2010 |
|
|
357,900 |
|
|
680 |
|
2013 |
|
|
411,500 |
|
|
|
|
2014 |
|
|
|
|
|
680 |
Electronic communications, 1000s
|
|
Telephones (landlines) |
Mobile Telephones |
Radios |
Televisions |
PCs |
Internet Users |
|
1975 |
70 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1980 |
120 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1990 |
240 |
|
600 |
|
|
|
|
1996 |
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
2000 |
219 |
1.1 |
870 |
|
|
2.0 |
|
2001 |
|
|
|
2,200 |
|
|
|
2002 |
|
|
1,291 |
|
|
3.5 |
|
2005 |
|
265 |
|
|
85 |
|
|
2010 |
368 |
5,941 |
|
|
|
750 |
|
2016 |
468 |
9,400 |
|
|
|
1,705 |
Tourism: Visitors to Tajikistan,
700 (1996)
7,700 (2000)
325,000 (2008)
160,000 (2010)
414,000 (2015)