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Foreign aidSouth and Central AsiaFiscal year 2025

US foreign aid to Tajikistan

The US gave Tajikistan $34.8 million in foreign aid in FY2025: $3.23 per person, 72nd of 173 recipient countries.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated $34.8 million in foreign assistance for Tajikistan and disbursed $54.6 million, according to ForeignAssistance.gov.

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Economic Development reporting for FY2025 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2025: $34.8 million against a FY2022–24 average of $86.4 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2025: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency, through quarter 4.)
FY2025 obligated
$35M
$34.8 million
Per person
$3.23
pop. 10,786,734 (2025)
Rank
72nd
of 173 recipient countries
FY2025 disbursed
$55M
paid out in the year

Tajikistan ranks 72nd of 173 recipient countries

US foreign aid obligated in FY2025, every recipient country, highest to lowest.

$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Tajikistan $34.8 millionHighestLowest$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Tajikistan $34.8 millionHighestLowest

What the numbers show

FY2025 obligations were down 64.9% from $99.3 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $64.0 million a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2024, at $99.3 million. In total, $675.2 million was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.

The agency that managed the most aid for Tajikistan in FY2025 was the Department of State ($21.6 million, 62.0% of the total). By sector, the largest was Health ($19.1 million, 54.8%). That sector includes: HIV/AIDS; Maternal and Child Health; Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats (PIOET); Malaria. ForeignAssistance.gov classified $450,000 (1.3%) as military assistance and the rest as economic assistance.

For FY2026, $249,971 has been reported so far. Agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov quarterly and with a lag, so this page uses FY2025 for comparisons. The figures cover aid recorded for Tajikistan itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the South and Central Asia page).

US aid to Tajikistan by year

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Economic Development reporting for FY2025 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2025: $34.8 million against a FY2022–24 average of $86.4 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2025: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency, through quarter 4.)

Tajikistan: $35M in FY2025, against a peak of $99M in FY2024

Obligations by fiscal year and managing agency, FY2015–FY2026, nominal dollars. FY26* is incomplete. Net de-obligations are drawn as zero.

  • Other agencies
  • Defense Department
  • State Department
  • USAID
$0$25M$50M$75M$100MFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$35M$0$25M$50M$75M$100M'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$35M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearUSAIDState DepartmentDefense DepartmentOther agenciesTotal obligatedDisbursedPer personRank
FY2015$25.1M$13.0M$14.4M$198,271$52.7M$51.3M$6.1071
FY2016$18.1M$7.1M$22.7M$707,421$48.7M$55.5M$5.4971
FY2017$26.3M$5.9M$9.2M$667,766$42.2M$45.8M$4.6483
FY2018$35.6M$4.1M$5.8M$51,948$45.4M$41.1M$4.8883
FY2019$32.3M$5.3M$397,047$46,081$38.0M$34.9M$3.9991
FY2020$42.5M$13.8M$9.4M$1.5M$67.2M$45.6M$6.9075
FY2021$49.7M$35.6M$736,300$932,054$87.0M$55.1M$8.7362
FY2022$44.7M$24.0M$442,716$1.8M$70.9M$65.7M$6.9682
FY2023$60.0M$25.4M$1.6M$2.0M$89.0M$84.4M$8.5767
FY2024$58.2M$39.1M$0$2.0M$99.3M$85.5M$9.3769
FY2025$11.7M$21.6M$0$1.5M$34.8M$54.6M$3.2372
FY2026*-$519,534$448,410$0$321,095$249,971$16.6M$0.0289

B = billion, M = million. Agency columns and the total are obligations (money committed); "disbursed" is money actually paid out in that year, which can include payments on earlier commitments. * FY2026 is incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov quarterly and with a lag. Negative amounts are net de-obligations.

Source: ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State).

Who manages it and what it pays for, FY2025

By managing agency

Managing agencyFY2025Share
Department of State$21.6 million62.0%
U.S. Agency for International Development$11.7 million33.6%
Department of Health and Human Services$1.5 million4.4%
Department of Energy$10,8350.0%

By sector

SectorFY2025Share
Health$19.1 million54.8%
Program Support$8.7 million25.0%
Peace and Security$4.3 million12.4%
Economic Development$2.8 million8.1%

Largest program areas

Program areaFY2025Share
Direct Administrative Costs$8.7 million25.0%
Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats (PIOET)$5.9 million16.9%
Tuberculosis$5.9 million16.8%
Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform$3.0 million8.5%
HIV/AIDS$2.7 million7.9%
Macroeconomic Foundation for Growth$2.5 million7.3%
Nutrition$2.5 million7.1%
Maternal and Child Health$1.5 million4.3%
Counter-Terrorism$1.5 million4.2%
Health - General$632,8591.8%

Sectors over the last five years

SectorFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Health$20.1M$18.7M$21.5M$21.2M$19.1M
Economic Development$16.3M$13.7M$24.8M$22.4M$2.8M
Peace and Security$28.7M$7.0M$17.3M$22.3M$4.3M
Program Support$7.8M$20.7M$15.2M$21.6M$8.7M
Education and Social Services$7.9M$7.3M$6.9M$6.8M-$27,305
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$6.0M$3.4M$3.2M$5.0M-$69,250
Environment$204,853$42,964$85,884$49,000$0
Humanitarian Assistance$0$22,614-$22,614$0$0
Multi-sector-$4,869-$8,198-$1,435$0$0

Who carried out the work, FY2025

Implementing partners by type, as reported to ForeignAssistance.gov. “Government” includes US agencies that carry out programs themselves and partner-country governments.

Partner typeFY2025Share
NGO$15.1 million43.4%
Enterprises$12.1 million34.8%
Government$3.4 million9.6%
Multilateral$3.3 million9.6%
Universities and Research Institutes$904,2962.6%

How Tajikistan compares

Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025

US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.

Armenia$37.2 million
Botswana$36.6 million
Tajikistan (this page)$34.8 million
Togo$29.7 million
Venezuela$29.2 million

Questions and answers

How much foreign aid does the US give Tajikistan?
$34.8 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $54.6 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $675.2 million.
How much US aid does Tajikistan get per person?
About $3.23 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 10,786,734.
How much USAID funding goes to Tajikistan?
USAID managed $11.7 million of the FY2025 total (33.6%). The Department of State managed the most ($21.6 million).
What is US aid to Tajikistan spent on?
In FY2025, by sector: Health $19.1 million (54.8%); Program Support $8.7 million (25.0%); Peace and Security $4.3 million (12.4%); Economic Development $2.8 million (8.1%).
Has US aid to Tajikistan gone up or down?
FY2025: $34.8 million; FY2024: $99.3 million (down 64.9%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2024 ($99.3 million).
Does the US give military aid to Tajikistan?
In FY2025, $450,000 (1.3%) of obligations for Tajikistan was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov.

Sources and notes

  1. ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State), complete dataset (us_foreign_aid_complete.csv), version of 02 Sep 2026, retrieved 2026-10-06. Obligations and disbursements in current (nominal) US dollars by U.S. fiscal year (October to September), FY2015–FY2026; FY2026 is incomplete. Public domain.
  2. Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators, SP.POP.TOTL (updated 2026-07-13), CC BY 4.0.
  3. Per-person figures divide the fiscal-year obligations by the World Bank population for the same calendar year.
  4. How the figures are built, and what they leave out: method and caveats.