page_title: Demographics of Tajikistan
section_title: Ethnic groups
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Tajikistan / CIA World Factbook demographic statistics / Ethnic groups
caption_attribution_description: Tajik girls
context_page_description: The Demographics of Tajikistan is about the demographic features of the population of Tajikistan, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
context_section_description: Tajik 84.3%
  Uzbek 13.8%
  Other 2% (includes Kyrgyz, Russian, Turkmen, Tatar, Arab)
  Ethnic makeup according to the population censuses from 1926 to 2010 (in thousands)
  
  Note: The category Tajiks also includes approximately 135,000 ethnic Pamiris, of which 65% are Shughni speakers, 13% are Rushani speakers, 12% speak Wakhi, 5% are Bartangi speakers, 3% are Yazgulyami speakers, 1.5% speak Khufi, and 0.8% are Ishkashimi speakers. In addition  there are 5,000 speakers of Yagnobi. According to the 2000 census, excluding the people whose native languages are Pamiri or Yagnobi, Tajiks account for 77.6% of the population.
caption: Two young Tajik women
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