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:	5,942,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	12.2	33.4
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:	23.83 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.05 ‰	8.60 ‰
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	73
Civil rights:	3	83
Health:	64	74
Climate:	53	64
Cost of Living:	56	13
Popularity:	53	86

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:	56.15 %	118.33 %
Average income:	6,740 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	TKM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	40,761 M US$	6.86 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	39,438 M US$	6.64 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	7,458 M US$	1.26 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	4,571 M US$	0.77 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	TKM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	58,592 km	9.86 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	5,113 km	0.86 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,300 km	0.22 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	71	0.012	3,673	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	2.54 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	21.18 bn kWh	3.56 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	3.20 bn kWh	538,699.44 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	70.63 m t	11,886.41 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	115	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	9,377,000	1578	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	714	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	1,262,753	213	286,441,830	873

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:	23.0 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.3 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	15.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	57 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.6	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 %
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 %