Tajiks in Uzbekistan

Tajiks in Uzbekistan are ethnic Tajiks residing in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the second largest ethnic group in Uzbekistan. Most are Sunni Muslims and, according to government estimates, make up 1.7 million people (4.8% of the population, 2021). According to subjective experts, the number of Tajiks in Uzbekistan ranges from 8 to 11 million or 25-30%.Richard Foltz, «The Tajiks of Uzbekistan», Central Asian Survey, 15(2), 213—216 (1996).Paul Bergne. The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic. — I.B.Tauris, 2007. — С. 100-110. — 207 с. For most Tajiks, Uzbek and Russian, the official languages of Uzbekistan, are the primary languages of communication. Tajiks are the indigenous population of the region and have long inhabited the eastern regions of Uzbekistan.World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples While their precise number is debated, it is agreed upon that Tajiks are the second largest ethnic group in Uzbekistan after Uzbeks.

History

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Due to assimilation pressures starting in 1924 with the establishment of the Uzbek SSR, many ethnic Tajiks identified themselves as Uzbeks in population censuses and preferred to be registered as Uzbek in their passports to avoid relocation to the less developed agricultural and mountainous regions of the Tajik SSR.Rahim Masov, The History of the Clumsy Delimitation, Irfon Publ. House, Dushanbe, 1991 . English translation: The History of a National Catastrophe, transl. Iraj Bashiri, 1996

Population The Statistics Agency of Uzbekistan states the Tajik population to be 4.8%; the cities such as Samarkand and Bukhara have Tajik majority population. According to the ethnographers, Tajiks in the Fergana Valley were concentrated mainly in its western and northwestern parts: Chust, Asht, Sokh and their environs, and they made up 85% of the population of these areas. In the rest of the Fergana Valley, Tajik villages were interspersed among the Uzbek ones.ГУБАЕВА С.С. ОСНОВНЫЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ ЭТНИЧЕСКИХ ПРОЦЕССОВ В ФЕРГАНСКОЙ ДОЛИНЕ В КОНЦЕ XIX — НАЧАЛЕ XX в. (К проблеме поздних этапов этнической истории Средней Азии). АВТОРЕФЕРАТ диссертации на соискание ученой степени доктора исторических наук. М., 1992, с.16.

The increase in the percentage of Tajiks from 3.9% in 1979 to 4.7% in 1989 in the first table can be partly attributed to a change in census instructions. The 1989 census allowed respondents to report their nationality based on ethnic self-identification rather than passport information for the first time.

The official census put Tajik population to be 4.8% population in 2021. Other estimates put the number of Tajiks in Uzbekistan at a much higher 25-30%. Richard Foltz, "The Tajiks of Uzbekistan", Central Asian Survey, 15(2), 213-216 (1996). While the precise number of Tajiks in Uzbekistan is debated, it is agreed upon that they are the second largest ethnic group in Uzbekistan after Uzbeks.

+The official number of Tajiks in Uzbekistan since 1926These Numbers come from official Soviet and Uzbek censuses, the numbers these censuses produced are contestedYearNumberPercentSource1926350,6707.4%1939317,5605.1%1959311,3753.8%1970457,3563.8%1979594,6273.9%1989933,5604.7%20171,544,7004.8%20211,657,3364.8%+The official 2021 number of Tajiks in Uzbekistan per region/republicThese numbers come from the 2021 official Uzbekistan census, the numbers this census produced are contestedRegion of UzbekistanNumberSurxondaryo Region334,120Samarkand Region280,447Namangan Region255,699Fergana Region223,516Tashkent Region164,519Qashqadaryo Region135,262Sirdaryo Region80,018Bukhara Region60,898Andijan Region39,639Tashkent (Capital)35,096Jizzakh Region33,051Navoiy Region14,355Khorazm Region433Karakalpakstan (Autonomous republic)283

Notable people

Sadriddin Ayni, born 1878 Jalol Ikromi, born 1909 Mirzo Tursunzoda, born 1911 Gulchehra Sulaymoni, born 1928 Asad Gulzoda, born 1935

Tajiks in Uzbekistan

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