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:
7,163,506 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 38.5% (male 1,390,220/female 1,368,268)
15-64 years: 56.7% (male 2,022,764/female 2,040,524)
65 years and over: 4.8% (male 150,372/female 191,358) (2005 est.)
Median age:
total: 19.73 years
male: 19.45 years
female: 20.02 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.15% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
32.58 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
8.39 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
-2.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)