Tajikistan

• inadequate sanitation facilities;
• increasing levels of soil salinity;
• industrial pollution;
• excessive pesticides;
• part of the basin of the shrinking Aral Sea suffers from severe overutilization of available water for irrigation and associated pollution

party to:

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Ozone Layer Protection

signed, but not ratified:

none of the selected agreements

0-14 years:

41% (male 1,258,424; female 1,230,891)

15-64 years:

54% (male 1,616,257; female 1,636,732)

65 years and over:

5% (male 118,485; female 159,306) (July 1998 est.)

at birth:

1.05 male(s)/female

under 15 years:

1.02 male(s)/female

15-64 years:

0.98 male(s)/female

65 years and over:

0.74 male(s)/female (1998 est.)

noun:

Tajikistani(s)

adjective:

Tajikistani

conventional long form:

Republic of Tajikistan

conventional short form:

Tajikistan

local long form:

Jumhurii Tojikistan

local short form:

none

former:

Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic

• 2 oblasts (viloyatho, singular-viloyat) and one autonomous oblast* (viloyati avtonomii);
• Viloyati Avtonomii Badakhshoni Kuni* (Khorugh-formerly Khorog), Viloyati Khatlon (Qurghonteppa-formerly Kurgan-Tyube), Viloyati Leninobod (Khujand-formerly Leninabad)

note: the administrative center name follows in parentheses

chief of state:

President Emomali RAHMONOV (since 6 November 1994; head of state and Assembly chairman since 19 November 1992)

head of government:

Prime Minister Yahyo AZIMOV (since 8 February 1996)

cabinet:

Council of Ministers appointed by the president who proposes them to the Supreme Assembly for approval

elections:

• president elected by popular vote for a five-year term;
• election last held 6 November 1994 (next to be held NA 1999);
• prime minister appointed by the president

election results:

Emomali RAHMONOV elected president; percent of vote-Emomali RAHMONOV 58%, Abdumalik ABDULLOJANOV 40%

• People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PPT [Emomali RAHMONOV];
• National Revival Bloc (Party of Popular Unity and Accord or PPUA) [Abdumalik ABDULLOJONOV];
• Tajik Communist Party or CPT [Shodi SHABDOLOV];
• Democratic Party or TDP [Jumaboy NIYAZOV, chairman];
• Islamic Renaissance Party or IRP [Mohammed Sharif HIMATZODA, chairman];
• Rebirth (Rastokhez) [Takhir ABDUZHABOROV];
• Lali Badakhshan Society [Atobek AMIRBEKOV];
• Tajikistan Party of Economic and Political Renewal or TPEPR;
• Citizenship, Patriotism, Unity Party [Bobokhon MAHMADOV];
• Adolatho "Justice" Party [Abdurahmon KARIMOV, chairman];
• Congress of Popular Unity [Saifuddin TURAYEV];
• Party of Justice and Development [Rahmutullo ZAINAV]

chief of mission:

Ambassador R. Grant SMITH

embassy:

interim chancery, Oktyabrskaya Hotel, 105A Prospect Rudaki, Dushanbe 734001

mailing address:

use embassy street address

telephone:

[7] (3772) 21-03-56

• three horizontal stripes of red (top), a wider stripe of white, and green;
• a gold crown surmounted by seven five-pointed gold stars is located in the center of the white stripe

total:

1.9 million (1996)

by occupation:

agriculture and forestry 52%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 17%, services 31% (1995)

revenues:

$NA

expenditures:

$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

total value:

$768 million (1996 est.)

commodities:

cotton, aluminum, fruits, vegetable oil, textiles

partners:

FSU 78%, Netherlands (1994)

total value:

$657 million (1996 est.)

commodities:

fuel, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, textiles, foodstuffs

partners:

FSU 55%, Switzerland, UK (1994)

total:

32,752 km

paved:

21,119 km (note-these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)

unpaved:

11,633 km (1992 est.)

total:

14

over 3,047 m:

1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 7 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1994 est.)

• limited illicit cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for domestic consumption;
• increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia to Russia and Western Europe TANZANIA