ISO 3166
TM
Primary locale
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.

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At a glance

Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.

People online

1M

0%world median 81%100%

18% of 5.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2016 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.

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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.

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, so treat it as colour for a discussion. 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 it shifts toward another language.

What people speak

Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.

Most spoken in Turkmenistan

share of 5.7M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.

One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.

What you would ship

Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against tk-TM, the dominant locale for this market.

Plural categories

2

Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.

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