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Turkmenistan

7,618,847

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+124.35K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+66.3%from 4.58M
Life expectancy70.2 years2024
Fertility rate2.66births per woman · 2024
Urban population47.1%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Turkmenistan is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1431.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.8%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate20.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+15.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+13.27Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Turkmenistan look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.64M in 2050—28.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20247.49M
  2. 20509.64M
  3. 21009.95M
Median age in 205032.8years
Births in 2050146.79Kduring the year
Deaths in 205086.59Kduring the year
Life expectancy73.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19601.64M
  2. 19702.2M
  3. 19802.83M
  4. 19903.76M
  5. 20004.58M
  6. 20105.56M
  7. 20206.95M
  8. 20257.62M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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