In 2025, over 2.78 million citizens of Tajikistan visited Uzbekistan for tourism, medical treatment, education, and trade, with the vast majority—2.7 million—traveling for tourism. This was reported by Uzbekistan’s State Committee for Statistics.
According to the source, a total of 11.7 million tourists visited Uzbekistan in 2025, with Tajikistan ranking second in the number of tourists, following Kyrgyzstan, which had 3.3 million visitors.
At the same time, the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan reported that 1.12 million Uzbekistan citizens visited Tajikistan as tourists last year. This accounts for over 50% of all tourists visiting Tajikistan in 2025.
However, the Uzbek State Statistics Agency reports that 1.3 million Uzbek citizens visited Tajikistan as tourists.
In addition, Uzbek authorities noted that 59,145 Tajik citizens traveled to Uzbekistan for medical treatment last year. This makes Tajiks the largest group of foreign visitors traveling to Uzbekistan for healthcare, out of a total of 86,199 people who visited the country for medical purposes in 2025.
The source also mentioned that in 2025, 2,904 Tajik citizens traveled to Uzbekistan for educational purposes. Tajikistan ranks third, after India (17,241 students) and Turkmenistan (9,349 students), in terms of the number of students coming to Uzbekistan for study.
Additionally, earlier reports from the Uzbek Statistics Agency revealed that Tajikistan is second after Russia in terms of the number of foreign students studying at Uzbek universities, with 6,039 Tajik students currently enrolled in higher education institutions in Uzbekistan.
Regarding trade, 17,962 Tajik citizens visited Uzbekistan for business purposes in 2025. Tajiks ranked second, after Afghan nationals (415,577 people), for the number of foreign traders visiting Uzbekistan. In total, 446,800 people visited Uzbekistan for trade purposes last year.
It is important to note that since Shavkat Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency of Uzbekistan and his state visit to Tajikistan in 2018—during which new cooperation agreements were signed with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon—the relationship between the two neighboring countries has improved significantly, with open borders facilitating easier travel.
Since then, bilateral cooperation between the two countries has expanded in trade, tourism, and social and economic spheres, with thousands of people traveling between the two countries every year for various purposes.
