Tajikistan
Republic of Tajikistan
- Capital
- Dushanbe
- Region
- Central Asia
- Population, 2025
- 11 million
- Currency
- TJS
- Area
- 143,100 kmยฒ
Across Tajikistan's 3 priced cities, one person needs about $1,038 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $442.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%33
- Safety20%96
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%83
- Connectivity10%27
- Cost10%71
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the countryโs cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 12%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 5%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 13%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 14%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employee
- 2%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 20%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeoโs crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- โ
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- โ
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2020
- 0.9
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #109 worldwide
- 54
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #90 worldwide
- 38
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +36%
Cities in Tajikistan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Istaravshan | 73 | โ | โ | โ | โ | 273.5K | Low confidence |
| 2Konibodom | 71 | โ | โ | โ | โ | 211.1K | Low confidence |
| 3Bokhtar | 70 | โ | โ | โ | โ | 110.8K | Low confidence |
| 4Isfara | 70 | โ | โ | โ | โ | 274K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 5Kลญlob | 69 | โ | โ | โ | โ | 214.7K | Low confidence |
| 6Khujand | 63 | 22.8 | $271 | $351 | 65.3 | 191K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 7Dushanbe | 53 | 27.3 | $628 | $442 | 48.7 | 679.4K | Medium confidence, 43 contributors |
| 8Proletarsk | 32 | 22.5 | $883 | $271 | 25.4 | 16.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 9Asht | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | 11.7K | Low confidence |
| 10Chorku | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | Low confidence |
| 11Altyn-topkan | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | Low confidence |