World Economics: Tajikistan's Informal Economy

The World Economics page “Tajikistan’s Informal Economy Size” presents the country’s estimated shadow-economy share of GDP alongside comparative data for other countries. The report states that an informal economy (informal sector or shadow economy) is the part of any economy that is neither officially taxed nor monitored, and that World Economics maintains an Informal Economy database. According to the page, the size of Tajikistan’s informal economy is estimated to be 38.3% of GDP, which represents approximately $28 billion at GDP PPP levels. The report’s comparative table, sourced to the World Economics Quarterly Informal Economy Survey (QIES) conducted from London, places Tajikistan among countries with large informal sectors, listed alongside Chad (41.2%), Honduras (41.0%), Congo Rep. (40.5%), Sudan (40.2%), Panama (40.0%), Comoros (39.9%), Burundi (39.6%), Sierra Leone (39.4%), Ukraine (39.4%), Thailand (38.6%), Tajikistan (38.3%), Zambia (38.0%), Angola (37.7%), Ethiopia (37.2%), Guinea-Bissau (37.0%), Armenia (36.8%), Mozambique (36.2%), Guinea (36.1%), Senegal (35.9%), Uruguay (35.6%), Kenya (35.4%), Cote d’Ivoire (35.3%) and Eswatini (35.3%). The page presents data quality ratings (A “as good as it gets” to E “extremely poor quality”) and provides navigation to related Tajikistan indicators across GDP size (Purchasing Power Parity, Current, Constant), GDP growth, GDP Data Quality, Wealth (including GDP per Capita), Inequality (Gini Coefficient), Debt-to-GDP Ratio, Demography (population, fertility, working-age population, 65+ dependents), Environment (carbon and methane emissions, air quality, access to safe water), Social factors (life expectancy, years of schooling, poverty, employment-to-population ratio) and Governance (Governance Factors Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Rule of Law, Press Freedom, Political Rights). Sources cited: World Economics Quarterly Informal Economy Survey (QIES), World Economics Informal Economy database.