Tajikistan population

On the UN's projection, Tajikistan will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2094: 12,700,100 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 6,217,640.

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

In 2020–2025 Tajikistan loses 14,877 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 2,918 a year more leaving than arriving.

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 23,369 (1950) and the most it lost was 119,621 (1998).

In 2024, 276,777 people living in Tajikistan had been born in another country, 3 of every 100 people there, against 8 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

Of every 100 babies born in Tajikistan in 2023, 7 had a mother under 20, 86 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 7 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 6 under 20 and 24 aged 35 or older.

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023

271,420

Average age when women have a baby

26.5 years

30.8 in 1950

Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19

40

44 in 1950

At the end of 2025, Tajikistan was hosting 13,408 people who had crossed a border into it, about 1 of every 1,000 people living there.

1. hosted from abroad13,408
2. Tajikistan nationals abroad10,583

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 500 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Tajikistan living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 1,876 people asked for asylum in Tajikistan for the first time; 2,472 people from Tajikistan asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Tajikistan whose claims were decided that year, 22 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

Of every 100 people in Tajikistan in 2025, 33 lived in a city, 51 in a town or suburb and 16 in the countryside.

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

Of every 100 adults in Tajikistan in 2020, 2 never went to school and 82 finished upper secondary or went further.

Here the young are not ahead: 3 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 0.9 aged 60–64 (men: 3.1 against 1).

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2075; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2080.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

Tajikistan had 25 cities in 2025, home to 3.6 million people. The largest, Dushanbe, holds 13 of every 100 people in Tajikistan.

1. Dushanbe1,440,787
2. Khujand204,088
3. Kulob184,502
4. Ghafurov183,812
5. Hisor125,054
6. Vahdat120,548
7. Киров96,958
8. Bokhtar90,998
9. Proletar89,781
10. Qubodiyon84,507

How to read this: one bar for each of the 10 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities