Tajikistan adopts 2025 draft budget

DUSHANBE. Nov 1 (Interfax) - The Tajik government has adopted a 2025 draft budget, which sets revenues at 49.5 billion somoni and expenditures at 51.6 billion somoni, which is 15.4% and 17% more than in 2024, respectively.

The current exchange rate is $1/10.6 somoni.

Speaking at the government meeting, President Emomali Rahmon said the draft budget was focused on promoting the national economy's sustainable development, reducing the effect of negative factors, and developing the real and infrastructural sectors, the presidential press service said.

He identified social support for the population and the improvement of living standards as priorities of the state's financial policy.

The overall revenues of the 2025 budget should make up 29.9% and expenditures 31.1% of the country's GDP, Rahmon said.

The state budget revenues are expected to reach 53.4 billion somoni in 2026 and 57.6 billion somoni in 2027, and expenditures 54.9 billion somoni in 2026 and 59.3 billion somoni in 2027.