Turkmenistan

Country Profile: Human Development Indicators

Human Development Index
Ranking 102
Year Turkmenistan Medium human development Europe and Central Asia World
2012 0.698  0.640  0.771  0.694  
2011 0.693  0.636  0.769  0.692  
2010 0.688  0.631  0.766  0.690  
2009 0.685  0.624  0.762  0.685  




















Composite indices
Indicator Value Notes
Non-income HDI value 0.727


Innovation and technology
Indicator Value Notes
Fixed and mobile telephone subscribers per 100 people (per100 people) 73.7


Trade, economy and income
Indicator Value Notes
GDP per capita (2005 PPP $) 8,055
Income index 0.643
 
Footnotes
1. Based on cross-country regression.
2. Data refer to 2011 or the most recent year available.
3. Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified.
4. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Institute for Statistics (UIS) estimate derived from its Global Age-specific Literacy Projections Model, which is based on national data since 2000.
5. UIS estimate derived from its Global Age-specific Literacy Projections Model which is based on national data more than 10 years old from the reference year of 2010.
6. Based on data on years of schooling of adults from household surveys in the World Bank's International Income Distribution Database.
7. Data refer to 2010 or the most recent year available.
8. Estimates have been computed to ensure comparability across countries; thus they are not necessarily the same as official statistics of the countries, which may use alternative rigorous methods.
9. Data were computed to ensure comparability across countries and are thus not necessarily the same as official country statistics, which may be based on alternative rigorous methods. Data are rounded according to the following scheme: less than 100, no rounding; 100–999, rounded to the nearest 10; and greater than 1,000, rounded to the nearest 100.
10. Projections based on medium-fertility variant.
 
n.a. Data not available






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Each year since 1990 the Human Development Report has published the Human Development Index (HDI) which was introduced as an alternative to conventional measures of national development, such as level of income and the rate of economic growth. The HDI represents a push for a broader definition of well-being and provides a composite measure of three basic dimensions of human development: health, education and income. Turkmenistan's HDI is 0.698, which gives the country a rank of 102 out of 187 countries with comparable data. The HDI of Europe and Central Asia as a region increased from 0.651 in 1980 to 0.771 today, placing Turkmenistan below the regional average. The HDI trends tell an important story both at the national and regional level and highlight the very large gaps in well-being and life chances that continue to divide our interconnected world. Learn more

 

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