Turkmenistan

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
5,851,466 1
Urban
51.60% 1
Rural
48.40% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
3.7% 2
Homicides
4.20 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
154 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
2.28 births per adult woman 5
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
5.10% 5
Life Expectancy at Birth
66 years 5
Adult Literacy Rate
99.65% 5
Internet Users
12% 5
Gross National Income per Capita
US$8,020 5

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
300
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
4
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
16
First Communions per Year
10
Church Marriages per Year
1
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
1
Priests
3
Catholics per Priest
85
Parishes
1
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
  • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
  • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.