Tajikistan
Republic of Tajikistan
- Region
- Asia · Central Asia
- Capital
- Dushanbe
- Population
- 10,786,734 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Tajikistani somoni (TJS)
- Official languages
- Russian, Tajik
- Spoken languages
- Tajik (official) 84.4%, Uzbek 11.9%, Kyrgyz 0.8%, Russian 0.5%, other 2.4% (2010 est.)
- Written scripts
- Cyrillic
- Area
- 143,100 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, OIC, SCO, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Afghanistan , China , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan
Political stability
61 / 100
Economic stability
35 / 100
Population stability
48 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, precious metal ore, aluminum, lead ore, antimony (2023)
- Key imports
- garments, footwear, cars, wheat, vehicle parts/accessories (2023)
- Natural resources
- hydropower, some petroleum, uranium, mercury, brown coal, lead, zinc, antimony, tungsten, silver, gold
- Primary route
- Overland rail corridors to China and Russia
- Secondary route
- Caspian and Trans-Caspian ("Middle Corridor") routes to Europe
The xin.bz view
- Tajikistan depends heavily on water for electricity; the same snowpack and reservoir storage that power its grid feed downstream irrigation, making winter accumulation the critical variable for the 2027 season.
xin.bz coverage
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Zimbabwe has placed antimony and tungsten behind a national gate, and the decisive contest is now over who finances the processing capacity — in a market where three countries mine 85% of world supply.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.