Over the first three months of this year, thirty-five countries of the world provided 19,200,800 US dollars’ worth of 2,413.5 tons of humanitarian aid to Tajikistan, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
In value, this is 2.7 times fewer compared to January-March last year. In terms of weight, this is 2.1 times fewer compared to the same period last year.
In January-March this year, among donor countries the greatest share reportedly came from China – 26.2 percent; Belgium – 17.8 percent; the United States – 15.8 percent; Kazakhstan – 8.6 percent; Russia – 7.9 percent; Turkiye – 5.6 percent; India – 2.9 percent; Uzbekistan – 2.6 percent; Denmark – 2.3 percent; Germany – 2.0 percent; the Republic of Korea – 1.7 percent; Sweden – 1.2 percent; and others.
Tajikistan belongs to low-income countries, who receive humanitarian aid as well as financial aid from international financial institutions — grants and highly concessional loans, technical aid.
A total cost of humanitarian aid received by Tajikistan last year (141 million US dollars) is 2.5 times higher than grants of international financial institutions planned for 2023 to support the country’s public budget.
