TJK · Europe & Central Asia

Tajikistan

10,786,734

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+195.81K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+71.6%from 6.28M
Life expectancy71.9 years2024
Fertility rate3.04births per woman · 2024
Urban population26.2%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaLower middle income

A country at every age

How Tajikistan is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1435.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6460.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate25.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+20.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-21.61Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Tajikistan look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 15.57M in 2050—47.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202410.59M
  2. 205015.57M
  3. 210020.2M
Median age in 205027.9years
Births in 2050282.37Kduring the year
Deaths in 205094.69Kduring the year
Life expectancy75.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.11M
  2. 19702.94M
  3. 19804M
  4. 19905.4M
  5. 20006.28M
  6. 20107.65M
  7. 20209.75M
  8. 202510.79M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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