Editing Demographics of Tajikistan (section)

==Ethnic groups==
{{Further|List of ethnic groups in Tajikistan}}
Ethnic Groups in 2020 Census<ref>https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/WS10RizoevENG.pdf {{bare URL PDF|date=February 2024}}</ref>
*[[Tajiks]] 86.1%
*[[Uzbeks]] 11.3%
*[[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]] 0.4%
*[[Russians]] 0.3%
*[[List of ethnic groups in Tajikistan|Other]] 1.9%

<gallery>
File:Afghan_children_in_Badakhshan_Province-2012.jpg|Tajik children
File:Tajikistani boys.jpg|Group of boys in Tajikistan
File:Old bearded man from Tajikistan.jpg|A Tajik man in traditional headgear (2005).
File:Tajik003.jpg|A Tajik woman and her son.
File:Tajik004.jpg|Two young Tajik women
File:A Tajikistani man.jpg|A religious scholar from Tajikistan (2005)
</gallery>

===Ethnic makeup according to the population censuses from 1926 to 2020===
Note: The category [[Tājik people|Tajiks]] also includes ethnic [[Pamiris]], of which 65% are [[Shughni language|Shughni]] speakers, 13% are [[Rushani language|Rushani]] speakers, 12% speak [[Wakhi language|Wakhi]], 5% are [[Bartangi language|Bartangi]] speakers, 3% are [[Yazgulyam language|Yazgulyami]] speakers, 1.5% speak [[Khufi language|Khufi]], and 0.8% are [[Ishkashimi language|Ishkashimi]] speakers. In addition there are a few thousands speakers of [[Yagnobi language|Yagnobi]]. According to the 2000 census, excluding the people whose [[native language]]s are Pamiri or Yagnobi, Tajiks account for 77.6% of the population and Pamiris and Yagnobis account for 2.3%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2005/0191/analit05.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807010258/http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2005/0191/analit05.php|url-status=dead|title=Итоги переписи населения Таджикистана 2000 года: национальный, возрастной, половой, семейный и образовательный составы|archivedate=August 7, 2011|website=www.demoscope.ru}}</ref><ref name="spo">{{cite journal |last1=Spoorenberg |first1=Thomas |year=2013 |title=Fertility changes in Central Asia since 1980|journal=Asian Population Studies |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=50–77 |doi=10.1080/17441730.2012.752238 |s2cid=154532617 }}</ref><ref name="spoo">{{cite journal |last1=Spoorenberg |first1=Thomas |year=2015 |title=Explaining recent fertility increase in Central Asia |journal=Asian Population Studies |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=115–133 |doi=10.1080/17441730.2015.1027275 |s2cid=153924060 }}</ref><br />

{| class="wikitable"
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'''Population of Tajikistan according to ethnic group 1926–2020'''
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group
! colspan="2" | census 1926
! colspan="2" | census 1939
! colspan="2" | census 1959
! colspan="2" | census 1970
! colspan="2" | census 1979
! colspan="2" | census 1989
! colspan="2" | census 2000
! colspan="2" | census 2010
! colspan="2" |census 2020
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
!Number
! %
|-
| [[Tajiks]]
| align="right" | 617,125
| align="right" | 74.6
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 883,966
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 59.5
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 1,051,164
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 53.1
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 1,629,920
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 56.2
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 2,237,048
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 58.8
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 3,172,420
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 62.3
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 4,898,400
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 79.9
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 6,373,834
| rowspan="2" align="right" | 84.3
| rowspan="2" |8,314,700
| rowspan="2" |86.1
|-
| [[Yagnobi people|Yagnobi]]
| align="right" | 1,829
| align="right" | 0.2
|-
| [[Uzbeks]]
| align="right" | 175,627
| align="right" | 21.2
| align="right" | 353,478
| align="right" | 23.8
| align="right" | 454,433
| align="right" | 23.0
| align="right" | 665,662
| align="right" | 23.0
| align="right" | 873,199
| align="right" | 22.9
| align="right" | 1,197,841
| align="right" | 23.5
| align="right" | 1,012,500
| align="right" | 16.5
| align="right" | 926,344
| align="right" | 12.2
|1,091,200
|11.3
|-
| [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]]
| align="right" | 11,410
| align="right" | 1.4
| align="right" | 27,968
| align="right" | 1.9
| align="right" | 25,635
| align="right" | 1.3
| align="right" | 35,485
| align="right" | 1.2
| align="right" | 48,376
| align="right" | 1.3
| align="right" | 63,832
| align="right" | 1.3
| align="right" | 65,500
| align="right" | 1.1
| align="right" | 60,715
| align="right" | 0.8
|38,600
|0.4
|-
| [[Russians]]
| align="right" | 5,638
| align="right" | 0.7
| align="right" | 134,916
| align="right" | 9.1
| align="right" | 262,610
| align="right" | 13.3
| align="right" | 344,109
| align="right" | 11.9
| align="right" | 395,089
| align="right" | 10.4
| align="right" | 388,481
| align="right" | 7.6
| align="right" | 68,200
| align="right" | 1.1
| align="right" | 34,838
| align="right" | 0.5
|29,000
|0.3
|-
| [[Turkmen people|Turkmen]]
| align="right" | 4,148
| align="right" | 0.5
| align="right" | 4,040
| align="right" | 0.3
| align="right" | 7,115
| align="right" | 0.4
| align="right" | 11,043
| align="right" | 0.4
| align="right" | 13,991
| align="right" | 0.4
| align="right" | 20,487
| align="right" | 0.4
| align="right" | 20,300
| align="right" | 0.3
| align="right" | 15,171
| align="right" | 0.2
| rowspan="4" |183,500
| rowspan="4" |1.9
|-
| [[Tatars]]
| align="right" | 950
| align="right" | 0.1
| align="right" | 18,296
| align="right" | 1.2
| align="right" | 56,893
| align="right" | 2.9
| align="right" | 70,803
| align="right" | 2.4
| align="right" | 79,529
| align="right" | 2.1
| align="right" | 79,442
| align="right" | 1.6
| align="right" | 19,000
| align="right" | 0.3
| align="right" | 6,495
| align="right" | 0.1
|-
| [[Arabs]]
| align="right" | 3,260
| align="right" | 0.4
| align="right" | 2,290
| align="right" | 0.2
| align="right" | 1,297
| align="right" | 0.1
| align="right" | 248
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 176
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 276
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 14,500
| align="right" | 0.2
| align="right" | 4,184
| align="right" | 0.1
|-
| Others
| align="right" | 7,180
| align="right" | 0.9
| align="right" | 60,137
| align="right" | 4.0
| align="right" | 120,750
| align="right" | 6.1
| align="right" | 142,332
| align="right" | 4.9
| align="right" | 158,812
| align="right" | 4.2
| align="right" | 169,824
| align="right" | 3.3
| align="right" | 29,100
| align="right" | 0.5
| align="right" | 142,921
| align="right" | 1.9
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! align="left" | Total
! colspan="2" | 827,167
! colspan="2" | 1,485,091
! colspan="2" | 1,979,897
! colspan="2" | 2,899,602
! colspan="2" | 3,806,220
! colspan="2" | 5,092,603
! colspan="2" | 6,127,500
! colspan="2" | 7,564,502
! colspan="2" |9,657,005
|-
| colspan="19" | <small><sup>1</sup> Source: [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_26.php?reg=2134]. <sup>2</sup> Source: [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php]. <sup>3</sup> Source: [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_59.php]. <sup>4</sup> Source: [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_70.php]. <sup>5</sup> Source: [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_79.php]. <sup>6</sup> Source: [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php] <sup>7</sup> including 51,000 [[Lakai (tribe)|Lakai]], 15,100 Kongrat, 4,900 Katagan, 3,700 Barlos and 1,100 Yuz. <sup>8</sup> Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130116004155/http://stat.tj/en/img/526b8592e834fcaaccec26a22965ea2b_1355502192.pdf], p.&nbsp;7. including 65,555 Lakai, 38,078 Kongrat, 7,601 Katagan, 5,271 Barlos and 3,798 Yuz </small>.  <small><sup>9</sup>Source</small><ref>https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/WS10RizoevENG.pdf</ref>
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