ACOG - Turkmenistan  - IBM

Geography

Location: Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Kazakhstan

Area:
total area: 488,100 sq km
land area: 488,100 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than California

Land boundaries: total 3,736 km, Afghanistan 744 km, Iran 992 km, Kazakhstan 379 km, Uzbekistan 1,621 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 4,075,316 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 40% (female 798,620; male 821,550)
15-64 years: 56% (female 1,155,392; male 1,128,844)
65 years and over: 4% (female 105,424; male 65,486)

Population growth rate: 1.97% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 29.93 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.34 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -2.92 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 68.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 65.35 years
male: 61.85 years
female: 69.02 years

Total fertility rate: 3.72 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Turkmen 73.3%, Russian 9.8%, Uzbek 9%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.9%

Religions: Muslim 87%, Eastern Orthodox 11%, unknown 2%

Languages: Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7%

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 98%
male: 99%
female: 97%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Turkmenistan

Type: republic

Capital: Ashgabat

Independence: 27 October 1991 (from the Soviet Union)

Constitution: adopted 18 May 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $13.1 billion

National product real growth rate: -24%

National product per capita: $3,280

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 25%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 2,480,000 kW
production: 10.5 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,600 kWh



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