NLAID - Activity in Tajikistan

Information on Tajikistan

Birth rate 26.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 14.9% (2005) country comparison to the world: 55

Climate midlatitude continental, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains

Death rate 6.6 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues inadequate sanitation facilities; increasing levels of soil salinity; industrial pollution; excessive pesticides

Infant mortality rate
total 38.54 deaths/1,000 live births
male 43.21 deaths/1,000 live births
female 33.63 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government and business

Life expectancy at birth
total population 66.03 years
male 62.97 years
female 69.25 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 99.5%
male 99.7%
female 99.2% (2000 census)

Maternal mortality rate 64 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 90

Natural resources hydropower, some petroleum, uranium, mercury, brown coal, lead, zinc, antimony, tungsten, silver, gold

Population
7,627,200 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 1.846% (2011 est.)

Religions Sunni Muslim 85%, Shia Muslim 5%, other 10% (2003 est.)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 11 years
male 12 years
female 10 years (2008)

NLAID - Activity in Tajikistan

Information on Tajikistan

Vocational training as a rehabilitation method for young people with disabilities

EFV weapons and ammunition disposal project Tadzjikistan

Information and Analysis Department under the Human Rights Ombudsman in Tajikistan

Vernietiging overtollige ammunitievoorraden Tadzjikistan

Building capacity of poor farmers by growing seed potatoes

Collective poverty reduction activities in KG and TJ in 2011-2012