producing at roughly the 1989
level and faces urgent reconstruction tasks from the 1992 civil war.
Tajikistan's economy was severely disrupted by the breakup of the
Soviet economy, which provided guaranteed trade relations and heavy
subsidies and in which specialized tasks were assigned to each
republic. Its economy is highly agricultural (43% of the work force);
it has specialized in growing cotton for export and must import a
large share of its food. Its industry (14% of the work force) produces
aluminum, hydropower, machinery, and household appliances. Nearly all
petroleum products must be imported. Constant political turmoil and
continued dominance of former Communist officials have slowed the
process of economic reform and brought near economic collapse while
limiting foreign assistance. Tajikistan is in the midst of a prolonged
monetary crisis in which it is attempting to continue to use the
Russian ruble as its currency while its neighbors have switched to new
independent currencies; Russia is unwilling to advance sufficient
rubles without attaching stringent reform conditions.
National product:
GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $6.9 billion (1993 estimate from
the UN International Comparison Program, as extended to 1991 and
published in the World Bank's World Development Report 1993; and as
extrapolated to 1993 using official Tajik statistics, which are very
uncertain because of major economic changes since 1990)
National product real growth rate:
-21% (1993 est.)
National product per capita:
$1,180 (1993 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
38% per month (1993 average)
Unemployment rate:
1.1% includes only officially registered unemployed; also large
numbers of underemployed workers and unregistered unemployed people
Budget:
revenues:
$NA
expenditures:
$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Exports:
$263 million to outside the FSU countries (1993)
commodities:
cotton, aluminum, fruits, vegetable oil, textiles
partners:
Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
Imports:
$371 million from outside the FSU countries (1993)
commodities:
fuel, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, textiles,
foodstuffs
partners:
Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
External debt:
$NA
Industrial production:
growth rate -20% (1993 est.)
Electricity:
capacity:
4,585,000 kW
production:
16.8 billion kWh
consumption pe