That dollar amount results from a 46.6% increase compared to $1.31 billion 5 years earlier in 2020.
Year over year, revenues from Tajikistani exports dropped by -21% starting from $2.43 billion for 2023.
Based on the average exchange rate for 2024, the Tajikistani somoni appreciated by 3.6% against the US dollar since 2020 but diluted by -0.1% from 2023 to 2024. Tajikistan’s weaker local currency since 2023 makes its exports paid for in stronger US dollars modestly less expensive for international buyers starting from American currency.
Tajikistan’s most valuable exported products were unwrought gold, metalloid element antimony, precious metal ores and concentrates, unwrought aluminum then uncarded and uncombed cotton.
Given Tajikistan’s population of 10.2 million people, its total US$1.9 billion in 2024 exports translates to roughly $190 for every resident in the Central Asian country. That per-capita metric exceeds the average $130 for 2023.
Tajikistan’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Tajikistani global shipments during 2024. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Tajikistan.
- Ores, slag, ash: US$466.7 million (24.3% of total exports)
- Gems, precious metals: $347.2 million (18.1%)
- Other base metals: $259.8 million (13.5%)
- Cotton: $211.5 million (11%)
- Aluminum: $201.6 million (10.5%)
- Mineral fuels including oil: $98.1 million (5.1%)
- Copper: $53.1 million (2.8%)
- Fruits, nuts: $45.1 million (2.3%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $31.1 million (1.6%)
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: $30.2 million (1.6%)
Tajikistan’s top 10 export product categories generated 90.7% of the overall value of Tajikistani global shipments.
Copper was the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 154.7% from 2023 to 2024.
In second place for improving export sales was miscellaneous base metals which rose 142.7%. This product category was led by precious metal ores and concentrates.
Tajikistan’s shipments of knitted or crocheted clothing and accessories posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 113.2%.
The leading decliner among Tajikistan’s top 10 export categories was gems and precious metals which fell -69.6% year over year.
At the more granular four-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, unwrought gold represents Tajikistan’s most valuable exported product (17.7% of the Tajikistani total). In second place was the metalloid element antimony (13.5%) trailed by precious metal ores and concentrates (11.2%), unwrought aluminum (9.5%), uncarded and uncombed cotton (8.8%), lead ores and concentrates (6.7%), electrical energy (4.7%), zinc ores and concentrates (4.5%), refined copper plus unwrought alloys (2.3%) then dried fruit (1.6%).
Tajikistan’s Major Trading Partners
The latest available country-specific data shows that 96.3% of products exported from Tajikistan was bought by importers in: mainland China (21.4% of the Tajikistani total), Switzerland (19.6%), Türkiye (12.4%), Kazakhstan (10.3%), Uzbekistan (7.4%), Iran (6%), Netherlands (5.7%), Afghanistan (5.6%), Russia (5%), United Arab Emirates (1.3%), Pakistan (0.9%) and United States of America (0.8%).
From a continental perspective, 66.5% of Tajikistan exports by value was delivered to Asian countries while 32.3% was sold to fellow European importers.
Tinier percentages went to the United States in North America (0.8%), Latin America’s British Virgin Islands (0.4%), then Africa (0.02%) led by South Africa.
Products Creating Trading Surpluses for Tajikistan
The following types of Tajikistani product shipments represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.
In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.
- Ores, slag, ash: US$464.6 million (Up by 23.8% since 2023)
- Other base metals: $258.9 million (Up by 143.1%)
- Cotton: $206.7 million (Down by -16.3%)
- Aluminum: $166.7 million (Up by 42.7%)
- Copper: $52.3 million (Up by 168.7%)
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: $17.7 million (Up by 404.1%)
- Raw hides, skins not furskins, leather: $5.2 million (Up by 0.1%)
- Gums, resins, other vegetable saps: $1.6 million (Up by 46.9%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $1.1 million (Down by -88.8%)
- Silk: $635,000 (Down by -29.1%)
Historically, Tajikistan earns highly positive net exports in the international trade of precious metal, copper and zinc ores and concentrates. In turn, these cashflows is a leading factor in Tajikistan’s strong competitive advantages under the ores, slag and ash product category.
Products Causing Trading Deficits for Tajikistan
Overall, Tajikistan incurred a -US$4.9 billion product trade deficit for 2024 up by 42.1% from -$3.45 billion in red ink one year earlier in 2023.
Below are exports from Tajikistan that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Tajikistan’s goods trail Tajikistani importer spending on foreign products.
- Mineral fuels including oil: -US$1.1 billion (Up by 29.6% since 2023)
- Vehicles: -$793 million (Up by 6.4%)
- Machinery including computers: -$514.3 million (Up by 4.3%)
- Iron, steel: -$414.5 million (Up by 34.4%)
- Wood: -$341.2 million (Up by 38.1%)
- Cereals: -$319.2 million (Down by -4.1%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$263.9 million (Up by 23.9%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: -$195.5 million (Up by 12.1%)
- Sugar, sugar confectionery: -$151.9 million (Up by 30.8%)
- Articles of iron or steel: -$141.8 million (Up by 4.6%)
Tajikistan has highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits particularly for refined petroleum oils and petroleum gas under the mineral fuels-related products category.
Tajikistan’s Export Companies
Not one Tajikistani corporations rank among Forbes Global 2000.
Wikipedia lists exports-related companies from Tajikistan. Selected examples are shown below.
- First MicroFinance Bank-Tajikistan (commercial bank)
- Somon Air (airliner)
- Tajik Aluminium Company (aluminum manufacturing)
In macroeconomic terms, Tajikistan’s total exported goods represent 3.4% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2024 ($57.2 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 3.4% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2024 compares to 2.5% for 2023. Those percentages suggest a relatively increasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Tajikistan’s total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.
Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Tajikistan’s unemployment rate averaged 11.6% for 2024, up from an average 11.5% jobless rate one year earlier according to Trading Economics metrics.
Tajikistan’s capital city is Dushanbe.
See also Kazakhstan’s Top 10 Exports, Turkey’s Top 10 Exports, Uzbekistan’s Top 10 Exports and Russia’s Top 10 Exports
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