1. ForecastsTajikistan

   Tajikistan: the UN's 1998 projection did not expect births this high even by 2050

   2023: 271k. The UN's 1998 projection expected about 154k for 2023 and 157k for 2050.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen 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, civil war: nine months on, births fell faster than a year before and than in countries without war

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