Distillers Country guides / Tajikistan
Tajikistan
A one-page guide to Tajikistan for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Dushanbe
- Official languages
- Tajik (state), Russian (inter-ethnic)
- Currency
- Somoni (TJS)
- Time zone
- UTC+5
- Area
- 143,100 km²
People
- Population
- 10.4 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 1.8% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 26.2%
- Aged under 15
- 35.9%
- Aged 65 and over
- 4.1%
- Life expectancy
- 71.9 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$17.5 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$1,693 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 8.4% (2025)
- Inflation
- 3.4% (2025)
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 for purchase (Law No. 451); parents must keep under-20s from drinking
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 0.7 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Tajikistan (basics, climate); IMF DataMapper WEO (GDP, population, growth, inflation; retrieved 26 Oct 2026); UN Comtrade (HS 2208); WHO Global Health Observatory; Wikipedia - Legal drinking age. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.