Tajikistan

Vladimir Chernigov, of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, meets primary schoolchildren in rural Tajikistan. Photo: Azam Bahorov/WFP

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Overview

Tajikistan is a low-income, food-deficit country with a population of 7.4 million. Only 7 percent of the land is arable. The country has a poverty rate of 47 percent, the highest of all the countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Nearly two-thirds of the country's population is classified as poor; living on less than US$2.15 per day. The poorest groups of the population spend over 70 percent of their income on food. Around 30 percent of the people are food-insecure, with some 6 percent of them facing severe food insecurity.

 

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Country at a glance 2011
Planned Beneficiaries550,941
Beneficiary needs (mt)24,068
Beneficiary needs ($US)18,231,204
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