GDP: purchasing power parity - $7.7 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 9% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,800 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
10%
industry:
62%
services:
28% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.7%
highest 10%:
26.9% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 30% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 2.34 million (1996)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture and forestry 44%, industry and construction 19%, other 37% (1996)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$521 million
expenditures:
$548 million, including capital expenditures of $83 million (1996 est.)
Industries: natural gas, oil, petroleum products, textiles, food processing
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - production: 8.745 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
99.94%
hydro:
0.06%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 5.453 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 2.74 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 60 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: cotton, grain; livestock
Exports: $1.1 billion (1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: oil and gas 55%, cotton 22% (1998)
Exports - partners: Iran, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan
Imports: $1.25 billion (1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment 45%, chemicals, foodstuffs (1998)
Imports - partners: Ukraine, Turkey, Russia, Germany, US, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Debt - external: $2.1 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $27.2 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Turkmen manat (TMM) = 100 tenesi
Exchange rates: Turkmen manats per US$1 - 5,200 (January 2000), 5,350 (January 1999), 4,070 (January 1997), 2,400 (January 1996)
Fiscal year: calendar year