Editing Demographics of Tajikistan (section)

===Regional birth data===
There were slightly over 224 thousand births in Tajikistan in 2017, down from 230 thousand in 2016.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://stat.ww.tj/library/en/number_of_births.xls| title = Number of births, 2000-2017| access-date = 2018-12-09| archive-date = 2021-08-15| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210815081732/http://stat.ww.tj/library/en/number_of_births.xls| url-status = dead}}</ref> Most births occurred in [[Khatlon Region]] (89 thousand births), followed by [[Sughd Region]] (61 thousand births) and the [[Districts of Republican Subordination]] (53 thousand births). The fewest births is recorded in [[Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region]] in eastern Tajikistan, with around 5,700 births. [[Dushanbe|Dushanbe city]] recorded approximately 15,500 births in 2017.

The [[crude birth rate]] for Tajikistan was 25.4‰ in 2017, down from 28.1‰ two years earlier (in 2015). [[Khatlon Region]] has the highest birth rate (28.1‰) in 2017, while the [[Dushanbe|city of Dushanbe]] has the lowest birth rate with 18.8‰.
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!colspan=19 | Crude birth rate by division from 2000 to 2018<ref>[http://stat.ww.tj/library/en/crude_%20birth_rate.xls Birth rate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205205012/http://stat.ww.tj/library/en/crude_%20birth_rate.xls |date=2020-02-05 }}</ref>
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! Division !! 2000 !! 2002 !! 2004 !! 2006 !! 2008 !! 2010 !! 2012 !! 2014 !! 2016 !! 2018
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| [[Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region]] || 17.4 || 20.3 || 19.2 || 23.8 || 17.3 || 18.4 || 19.8 || 21.9 || 23.7 || 23.5
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| [[Sughd Region]] || 25.1 || 25.4 || 23.9 || 24.0 || 25.8 || 29.4 || 27.6 || 28.2 || 24.9 || 24.2
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| [[Khatlon Region]] || 28.6 || 29.0 || 31.9 || 29.4 || 30.5 || 31.1 || 29.4 || 31.1 || 30.0 || 28.5
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| [[Dushanbe|Dushanbe city]] || 28.5 || 25.6 || 20.9 || 20.4 || 25.6 || 24.1 || 22.8 || 16.5 || 17.5 || 18.4
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| [[Districts of Republican Subordination]] || 28.1 || 28.8 || 26.0 || 27.9 || 28.8 || 30.2 || 28.5 || 27.5 || 27.5 || 25.9
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! Tajikistan || 27.0 || 27.3 || 26.8 || 26.7 || 27.9 || 29.4 || 27.8 || 27.8 || 26.6 || 25.6
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