Tajikistan authorities have decreased a foreign manpower quote for this year
By president’s decree, which is posted on the Justice Ministry’s website for legal information, this year’s foreign manpower quota is set at 6,500 people, which is 1000 people fewer than in 2023.
A dependency ratio ceiling, or quota, is the maximum ratio of foreign employees to the total workforce that a company in a given sector can employ.
The document notes that this quota does not include foreign citizens, employed for priority projects and investment sectoral agreements on the basis of government-to-government and interstate acts.
As usual, most places are given to Chinese nationals – 4,440 (68.366 percent of a total number of places). Besides, 400 places are given to citizens of Afghanistan; Iran – 350; India – 300; Turkiye – 200; Uzbekistan – 150; Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Russia – 100 places each; Kyrgyzstan – 40; other countries – 310.
Most of foreign workers are given the right to work in Dushanbe – 2000; districts subordinate to the center (RRP) – 900; Sughd province — 880; Khatlon province – 600; and the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) – 60.
The foreign employee quotas are provided for the following economic sectors of Tajikistan: industry – 2,610; construction – 2,270; trade – 290; agriculture – 160; energy – 145; education – 85; geology – 75; public catering – 70; housing and public services – 65; communications – 50; health care – 50; transport – 40; sports – 25; others sectors – 565.
In 2023 and 2022, the foreign manpower quota was set at 7,500 people and most places were given to Chinese nationals (more than 60 percent).
