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Armed forces personnel	6,000		[126th of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$	24,000,000 constant 1990 US$		[60th of 100]
Branches Ground Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces, Mobile Force
expenditure > % of GDP	2.17 %		[47th of 145]
Expenditures	3.9 % of GDP		[12th of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure	$35,400,000.00		[20th of 111]
Manpower > Availability > Females	1,911,594		[86th of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males	1,897,356		[93rd of 210]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49	1,704,460		[95th of 175]
Manpower > Military age	18 years of age
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males	84,137		[85th of 226]
personnel	13,000		[118th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force	0.61 %		[110th of 168]
Service age and obligation 18 years of age for compulsory military service; 2-year conscript service obligation
Weapon holdings	121,000		[110th of 137]
WMD > Biological There is no evidence to suggest that Tajikistan produces or possesses biological weapons. Tajikistan is not a member of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC).
WMD > Chemical There is no evidence to suggest that Tajikistan produces or possesses chemical weapons. Tajikistan is a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
WMD > Missile Tajikistan does not possess ballistic missiles and lacks the industrial capability to produce them. However, some reports indicate that a Soviet-era plant in the city of Taboshar once manufactured solid-propellant rocket motors for Soviet strategic missiles.
WMD > Nuclear During the Soviet era, uranium ore from deposits in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan was milled into yellowcake at the Vostochnyy Rare Metal Industrial Association (Vostokredmet), previously known as the Leninabad Mining and Chemical Combine, in Chkalovsk. The uranium for the first Soviet nuclear bomb tested at Semipalatinsk in August 1949 was produced at Chkalovsk The Argus nuclear reactor, a research reactor designed to run on 21% enriched uranium, was completed in 1991 in Dushanbe, but was never loaded with fuel. Tajikistani officials have expressed interest in obtaining fuel and operating the reactor. While Tajikistan has no operational nuclear reactors, there are radiation sources on Tajikistani territory that were used for industrial applications in the Soviet era. Tajikistan is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and it has an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
WMD > Overview Tajikistan emerged from a devastating civil war (1992-1997) as one of the poorest countries in the region. The country's geographic location, porous borders, and a robust drug trade raise concerns about the potential for illegal transit of materials that could contribute to weapon of mass destruction programs. Tajikistan does not produce or possess nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.

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