Turkmenistan
Country name: Turkmenistan
Area: 488,100 sq km
Population: 4,603,244 (July 2001 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.85% (2001 est.) Birth rate: 28.55 births/1,000 population (2001 est.) Death rate: 8.98 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.) Net migration rate: —1.04 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.) Sex ratio: 0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.) Infant mortality rate: 73.25 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.) Life expectancy at birth: 61 years, male: 57.43 years, female: 64.76 years (2001 est.) Major religions: Muslim, Eastern Orthodox
Major languages: Turkmen, Russian, Uzbek
Literacy—total population: 98%, male: 99%, female: 97% (1989 est.) Government type: republic
Capital: Ashgabat
Administrative divisions: 5 welayatlar
Independence: 27 October 1991 (from the Soviet Union)
National holiday: Independence Day, 27 October (1991) Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
GDP—real growth rate: 16% (2000 est.) GDP—per capita: (purchasing power parity): $4,300 (2000 est.) Population below poverty line: 58% (1999 est.)
Exports: $2.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports: $1.65 billion (c.i.f., 2000 est.)
Currency: Turkmen manat (TMM)
Source: Central Intelligence Agency. (2001) The World Book Factbook 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2002, from http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac tbook.
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