Agriculture - products:
cotton, grain, fruits, grapes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, goats

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

Industrial production growth rate:
8.2% (2002 est.)

Electricity - production:
16.5 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 1.9%
hydro: 98.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
15.7 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
4.459 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
4.81 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
252.8 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
28,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
39 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
1.389 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
1.35 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-73.95 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$1.16 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
aluminum, electricity, cotton, fruits, vegetable oil, textiles

Exports - partners:
Netherlands 46.6%, Turkey 15.8%, Russia 9.1%, Uzbekistan 7.3%,
Latvia 4.9%, Iran 4% (2005)

Imports:
$1.513 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
electricity, petroleum products, aluminum oxide, machinery and
equipment, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
Russia 19.3%, Kazakhstan 12.7%, Uzbekistan 11.5%, Azerbaijan 8.6%,
China 7%, Ukraine 6.2%, Romania 4.6%, Turkmenistan 4% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$209.2 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$829 million (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$67 million from US (2005)

Currency (code):
somoni

Currency code:
TJS

Exchange rates:
Tajikistani somoni per US dollar - 3.2475 (2006), 3.1166 (2005),
2.9705 (2004), 3.0614 (2003), 2.7641 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Tajikistan

Telephones - main lines in use:
245,200 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
265,000 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: poorly developed and not well maintained; many
towns are not linked to the national network
domestic: the domestic telecommunications network has historically
been under-funded and poorly maintained; main line availability ha