ACOG - Tajikistan  - IBM

Geography

Location: Central Asia, west of China

Area:
total area: 143,100 sq km
land area: 142,700 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Wisconsin

Land boundaries: total 3,651 km, Afghanistan 1,206 km, China 414 km, Kyrgyzstan 870km, Uzbekistan 1,161 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 6,155,474 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 43% (female 1,303,627; male 1,340,086)
15-64 years: 53% (female 1,612,429; male 1,624,379)
65 years and over: 4% (female 157,841; male 117,112)

Population growth rate: 2.6% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 34.06 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.58 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -1.44 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 60.4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 69.03 years
male: 66.11 years
female: 72.1 years

Total fertility rate: 4.55 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6%

Religions: Sunni Muslim 80%, Shi'a Muslim 5%

Languages: Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government and business

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 98%
male: 99%
female: 97%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Tajikistan
conventional short form: Tajikistan

Type: republic

Capital: Dushanbe

Independence: 9 September 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: new constitution adopted 6 November 1994


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $8.5 billion

National product real growth rate: -12%

National product per capita: $1,415

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

Unemployment rate: 1.5% includes only officially registered unemployed; also large numbersof underemployed workers and unregistered unemployed people

Electricity:
capacity: 3,800,000 kW
production: 17 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,800 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Games involved a crew of 2,100 who worked with more than 3,500 performers as well as thousands of athletes who celebrated on the field of Olympic Stadium.