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, Environmental Modification, Ozone Layer Protection

signed, but not ratified:

none of the selected agreements

0-14 years:

42% (male 1,362,521; female 1,336,205)

15-64 years:

54% (male 1,714,545; female 1,734,430)

65 years and over:

4% (male 126,170; female 166,861) (2000 est.)

at birth:

1.05 male(s)/female

under 15 years:

1.02 male(s)/female

15-64 years:

0.99 male(s)/female

65 years and over:

0.76 male(s)/female

total population:

0.99 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

noun:

Tajikistani(s)

adjective:

Tajikistani

conventional long form:

Republic of Tajikistan

conventional short form:

Tajikistan

local long form:

Jumhurii Tojikiston

local short form:

none

former:

Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic

• 2 oblasts (viloyatho, singular - viloyat) and one autonomous oblast* (viloyati mukhtori);
• Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshoni* (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 Supreme Assembly chairman since 19 November 1992)

head of government:

Prime Minister Ogil OQILOV (since 20 January 1999)

cabinet:

Council of Ministers appointed by the president, approved by the Supreme Assembly

elections:

• president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term;
• election last held 6 November 1999 (next to be held NA 2006);
• prime minister appointed by the president

election results:

Emomali RAHMONOV elected president; percent of vote - Emomali RAHMONOV 96%, Davlat USMONOV 4%

• Democratic Party or TDP [Mahmadruzi ISKANDDAROV, chairman];
• Islamic Rebirth Party [Muhammadsharif HIMMAT-ZODA, chairman];
• Lali Badakhshan Movement [Atobek AMIRBEKOV];
• National Unity Party - evolved from the People's Party and Party of People's Unity;
• Party of Justice and Development [Rahmatullo ZOIROV];
• People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Abdulmajid DOSTIEV];
• Rastokhez (Rebirth) Movement [Tohiri ABDUJABBOR];
• Tajik Communist Party or CPT [Shodi SHABDOLOV];
• Tajikistan Party of Economic and Political Renewal or TPEPR [leader NA];
• United Tajik Opposition or UTO [Said Abdullo NURI] - an umbrella group including;
• Adolatho "Justice" Party [Abdurahmon KARIMOV, chairman]

• Tajikistan does not have an embassy in the US, but does have a permanent mission to the UN: address - 136 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021, telephone - [1] (212) 472-7645, FAX - [1] (212) 628-0252;
• permanent representative to the UN is Rashid ALIMOV

chief of mission:

Ambassador Robert FINN

embassy:

temporarily collocated with the US Embassy in Almaty (Kazakhstan)

mailing address:

use embassy street address

telephone:

NA

FAX:

NA

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

lowest 10%:

NA%

highest 10%:

NA%

revenues:

$NA

expenditures:

$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

total:

13,700 km

paved:

11,330 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)

unpaved:

2,370 km (1996 est.)

• limited illicit cultivation of cannabis, mostly for domestic consumption;
• opium poppy cultivation negligible in 1998 because of government eradication program;
• major transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia to Russia and Western Europe [Country Listing] [ The World Factbook Home]