AX - [1] (212) 628-0252; permanent representative
to the UN is Rashid ALIMOV

Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador
Robert P. J. FINN

embassy: temporarily collocated with the US Embassy in Almaty
(Kazakhstan)

mailing address: use embassy street address

telephone: NA

FAX: NA

Flag description: 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

Tajikistan Economy

Economy - overview: Tajikistan has the lowest per capita GDP among
the 15 former Soviet republics. Cotton is the most important crop.
Mineral resources, varied but limited in amount, include silver,
gold, uranium, and tungsten. Industry consists only of a large
aluminum plant, hydropower facilities, and small obsolete factories
mostly in light industry and food processing. The Tajikistani
economy has been gravely weakened by six years of civil conflict and
by the loss of subsidies from Moscow and of markets for its
products. Most of its people live in abject poverty. Tajikistan
depends on aid from Russia and Uzbekistan and on international
humanitarian assistance for much of its basic subsistence needs. The
future of Tajikistan's economy and the potential for attracting
foreign investment depend upon stability and continued progress in
the peace process.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $7.3 billion (2000 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 5.1% (2000 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,140 (2000 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 19.8%

industry: 18.1%

services: 62.1% (1998)

Population below poverty line: 80% (2000 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%

highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 33% (2000 est.)

Labor force: 1.9 million (1996)

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 50%, industry 20%, services
30% (1997 est.)

Unemployment rate: 5.7% includes only officially registered
unemployed; also large numbers of underemployed workers and
unregistered unemployed people (December 1998)

Budget: revenues: $146 million

expenditures: $196 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(2000 est.)

Industries: aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers, cement,
vegetable oil, metal-cutting machine tools, refrigerators and
freezers

Industrial production growth rate