ry,
brown coal, lead, zinc, antimony, tungsten
Land use:
arable land:
6%
permanent crops:
0%
meadows and pastures:
23%
forest and woodland:
0%
other:
71%
Irrigated land:
6,940 sq km (1990)
Environment:
current issues:
inadequate sanitation facilities; increasing levels of soil salinity;
industrial pollution; excessive pesticides; Tajikistan is part of the
basin of the shrinking Aral Sea which suffers from severe
overutilization of available water for irrigation and associated
pollution
natural hazards:
NA
international agreements:
NA
Note:
landlocked

@Tajikistan, People

Population:
5,995,469 (July 1994 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.67% (1994 est.)
Birth rate:
34.79 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Death rate:
6.71 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Net migration rate:
-1.43 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
62 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
68.76 years
male:
65.88 years
female:
71.79 years (1994 est.)
Total fertility rate:
4.62 children born/woman (1994 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Tajik(s)
adjective:
Tajik
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 9-49 can read and write (1970)
total population:
100%
male:
100%
female:
99%
Labor force:
1.95 million (1992)
by occupation:
agriculture and forestry 43%, government and services 24%, industry
14%, trade and communications 11%, construction 8% (1990)

@Tajikistan, Government

Names:
conventional long form:
Republic of Tajikistan
conventional short form:
Tajikistan
local long form:
Respublika i Tojikiston
local short form:
none
former:
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
Digraph:
TI
Type:
republic
Capital:
Dushanbe
Administrative divisions:
2 oblasts (viloyotho, singular - viloyat) and one autonomous oblast*
(viloyati avtonomii); Viloyati Avtonomii Badakhshoni Kuni* (Khorugh -
formerly Khorog), Viloyati Khatlon (Qurghonteppa - formerly
Kurgan-Tyube), Viloyati Leninobad (Khujand - formerly Leninabad)
note:
the administrative center names are in parentheses
Independence:
9 September 1991 (from Soviet Union)
National holiday:
National Day,