Press Conference at the Statistics Agency
On February 12, 2025, a press conference was held in the conference hall of the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan in accordance with the Plan for organizing and conducting press conferences, approved on December 20, 2024, under No. 26/10-477, with the participation of representatives of the mass media.
The event was attended by representatives of newspapers and magazines, internet resources, TV channels, and radio stations, including NAI "Khovar," "Sputnik Russia," TV channels "Dushanbe," "Jahonnamo," "Safina," "Bahoriston," "Tajikistan," radio stations "Khovar," "Radio Tajikistan," "Ozodi," publications "Jumhuriyat," "Sadoi Mardum," "Harfi Omor," "Narodnaya Gazeta," "Khalq Ovozi," internet platforms "your.tj," "pressa.tj," and in total 17 representatives of domestic and foreign media outlets.
Participants were provided with printed materials, including the report on the socio-economic situation of the Republic of Tajikistan in 2024 (in the state and Russian languages), the report on the demographic situation in the Republic of Tajikistan in 2024 (in the state and Russian languages), as well as a brief report on the results of the activities of state statistical bodies for the reporting period.
At the beginning, the Director of the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan presented a brief overview of the activities of the statistical bodies in 2024. It was noted that the Statistics Agency, inspired by the new Address of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Supreme Assembly on December 28, 2023, decrees, instructions, directives of the President, and resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on statistical issues, as well as socio-economic programs and plans, used them as guidance and achieved a number of significant results in 2024.
It was emphasized that, based on the Government Resolution No. 538 dated November 29, 2023, “On the Statistical Work Program for 2024,” the Agency completed the year having conducted 8,636 statistical works, which demonstrates full implementation of the program.
Then the question-and-answer session began, during which media representatives asked the Agency’s leadership the following sectoral questions:
Decrease in population in the GBAO and its reasons;
The volume of USAID investments in Tajikistan;
To which countries cotton was exported in the largest volumes;
Population size of Tajikistan;
Birth statistics;
Export statistics of goods abroad;
Export and import of goods with Afghanistan;
Number of women and men in Tajikistan;
Average life expectancy in Tajikistan;
Number of people older than 100 years;
Methodology for accounting production of school uniforms.
The Agency’s leadership provided concrete answers to questions related to the activities of the statistical bodies.
