- ISO 3166
TM- Main language + region
tk-TM- Currency
- TMT · Turkmenistani Manat
- Region
- CIS
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan has 5.7M people, and 1M of them are online. Turkmen is the most widely spoken language at 70%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Turkmen is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to tk-TM.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
1M
0%world median 81%100%
18% of 5.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2016 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$6,540
Higher than 40% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
41%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2017. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Turkmen 70% · Russian 12% · Uzbek 9%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
456
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
100%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Turkmenistan
share of 5.7M people
- Turkmenofficial70%4M
- Russian12%689.3K
- Uzbek9%517K
- Kurdish0.4%23K
- Kara-Kalpak0.1%5.7K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Turkmen in 3 territories and 7.2M speakers in total; Turkmenistan holds 56% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Turkmen profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (tk-TM).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 aprel 2026
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 TMT
1,234.56 in TMT · Turkmenistani Manat