Turkmenistan
- Capital
- Ashgabat
- Region
- Central Asia
- Population, 2025
- 7.6 million
- Currency
- TMT
- Area
- 488,100 km²
Across Turkmenistan's 4 priced cities, one person needs about $2,988 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $748.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%21
- Safety20%55
- Health care15%77
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%98
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%10
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Corporate tax
- 8%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 15%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 54.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 45.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2015
- 1.0
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Turkmenistan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Mary | 73 | — | — | — | — | 167K | Low confidence |
| 2Dashoguz | 72 | — | — | — | — | 201.1K | Low confidence |
| 3Turkmenbasi | 58 | — | — | — | — | 91.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 4Abadan | 52 | 116.8 | — | — | — | 39.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Kaka | 52 | 116.8 | — | — | — | 33.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Ashgabat | 51 | 124.1 | $1,125 | $748 | 28.6 | 1M | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 7Turkmenabat | 50 | 154.4 | $484 | $513 | 20.9 | 230.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |