1. EnergyTajikistan

   Tajikistan: in 10 years the economy doubled and electricity use grew 16%

   GDPElectricity use

   From 2013 to 2023: real GDP and all electricity used in the country — homes, industry, transport. Supply, efficiency and the mix of industries can matter; these series do not separate their effects. The gap alone does not prove GDP is mismeasured.

   Source: IMF WEO (GDP growth); Ember (electricity demand)Open on the chart →

More findings

• Tajikistan: more babies born than in South Korea
• Tajikistan: 19 thousand more people died than usual in 2020–2021; officially 125 died of COVID
• Tajikistan: the share of adults with obesity has overtaken the share going hungry
• Tajikistan: women are in higher education 2.3 times as often as in 2010, yet fewer of them work
• Tajikistan: 17% fewer babies in 1996 than before the war; 5% more in countries without war
• Tajikistan: the UN's 1998 projection did not expect births this high even by 2050

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