Environment - current issues: inadequate sanitation facilities; increasing levels of soil salinity; industrial pollution; excessive pesticides
Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Environmental Modification, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
landlocked; mountainous region dominated by the Trans-Alay Range in
the north and the Pamirs in the southeast; highest point, Qullai
Ismoili Somoni (formerly Communism Peak), was the tallest mountain
in the former USSR
People Tajikistan
Population:
7,011,556 (July 2004 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 39.2% (male 1,384,035; female 1,361,137)
15-64 years: 56.1% (male 1,957,712; female 1,976,488)
65 years and over: 4.7% (male 145,717; female 186,467) (2004 est.)
Median age:
total: 19.5 years
male: 19.2 years
female: 19.8 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.14% (2004 est.)
Birth rate:
32.63 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate:
8.42 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)