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Number of inhabitants in thousands. FAO, 2005
Number of inhabitants in thousands. FAO, 2005

Demographics of Turkmenistan:

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Population

5,097,028 (July 2007 est. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Turkmenistan ( Türkmenistan; also known as Turkmenia) is a Turkic country in Central Asia. )

Age structure


0-14 years: 35. 7% (male 909,113; female 860,128)
15-64 years: 60. Male (♂ refers to the sex of an organism or part of an organism which produces small mobile Gametes called spermatozoa. Female (♀ is the Sex of an Organism, or a part of an organism which produces ova (egg cells 2% (male 1,462,198; female 1,516,836)
65 years and over: 4. 1% (male 78,119; female 125,687) (2005 est. )

Population growth rate

1. 617% (2007 est. )

Birth rate

25. 38 births/1,000 population (2007 est. )

Death rate

6. 17 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est. )

Net migration rate

-3. 01 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est. )

Sex ratio


at birth: 1. 05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1. 06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0. 96 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0. 62 male(s)/female
total population: 0. 98 male(s)/female (2005 est. )

Infant mortality rate

53. 49 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est. )

Life expectancy at birth


total population: 61. 39 years
male: 58. 02 years
female: 64. 93 years (2005 est. )

Total fertility rate

3. 41 children born/woman (2005 est. )

Nationality


noun: Turkmen(s)
adjective: Turkmen

Ethnic groups

Turkmen 85%, Uzbek 5%, Russian 4%, Other 6% (2003)

Religion

Muslim 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, unknown 2%

Language

Turkmen 71%, Russian 12%—up to 50% claim "good knowledge" of Russian according to Ethnologue, Uzbek 9%, other 6%

Other languages include: Balochi language, Persian Language, etc

Literacy


definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98%
male: 99%
female: 97% (1989 est. This article is about the Turkmen people of Turkmenistan. For the distinct group of Turk peoples of Iraq see Iraqi Turkmen. The Uzbeks (Self designation sg O‘zbek, pl O‘zbeklar) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. The Russian people (Русские— Russkie) are an East Slavic Ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world A language is a dynamic set of visual auditory or tactile Symbols of Communication and the elements used to manipulate them Turkmen ( Latin script: türkmen Cyrillic: түркмен ISO 639 -1 tk ISO 639-2 tuk is the name of the national language of Turkmenistan Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Ethnologue Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics a Christian Uzbek ( O‘zbek tili or O'zbekcha in Latin script, Ўзбек тили in Cyrillic script; أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی in Arabic Balochi (بلوچی also Baluchi, Baloci or Baluci) is a Northwestern Iranian language. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) )


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