Country comparison Turkmenistan : United States

General information

	Turkmenistan	United States
Region:	Central Asia	North America
Area:	488,100 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Turkmen	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1991 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Ashgabat	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Turkmenistan	United States
Population:	6,031,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	12.4	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 65 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 72 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 25.6 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	23.07 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.04 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.72 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Turkmenistan	United States
Political stability:	51	67
Civil rights:	3	81
Health:	64	74
Climate:	53	62
Cost of Living:	56	35
Popularity:	53	72

Economy

	Turkmenistan	United States
Currency:	Manat (1 TMT = 100 Tenge)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.4 %	8.3 %
Cost of Living:	52.42 %	110.53 %
Average income:	7,220 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	TKM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	45,231 M US$	7.50 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	42,917 M US$	7.12 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	7,458 M US$	1.24 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	4,571 M US$	0.76 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	TKM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	58,592 km	9.71 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	5,113 km	0.85 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,300 km	0.22 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	68	0.011	3,652	0.011
Airports:	26	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	TKM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	15.09 bn kWh	2.50 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	21.18 bn kWh	3.51 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	3.20 bn kWh	530,741.30 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	71.73 m t	11,893.18 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Turkmenistan	United States
International dialing:	+993	+1
Internet domain:	.tm	.us

	TKM total	TKM per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	682,000	113	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	9,377,000	1555	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	714	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,281,688	213	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	5,000	1	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Turkmenistan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	7.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.22	2.59
Diabetes:	6.1 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	79.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Turkmenistan and United States

	Turkmenistan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	22.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.8 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	15.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	57 %	67 %
Rain days:	2.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.7	7.2

Native languages

	Turkmenistan	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Turkmen:	72.0 %	n/a
Russian:	12.0 %	0.2 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Uzbek:	9.0 %	n/a
Kazakh:	2.0 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	5.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Turkmenistan	United States
Islam:	89.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	9.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	2.0 %	15.3 %