World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Turkmenistan Lower-middleTurkmenistan income group 2000 2007 2007
Economic and social context Population (total, million) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method (current US$) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–07 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% of ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%) Sector structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Sector performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscrib.) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Price basket for residential fixed line (US$/month) Price basket for mobile service (US$/month) Price basket for Internet service (US$/month) Price of call to United States (US$ for 3 minutes) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications ICT expenditure (% of GDP) E-government Web measure indexc Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, Dec. 2008)
5 46 650 4.0 — —
5 48 — — 100 —
3,435 42 1,905 8.0 83 68
Europe & Central Asia Region 2007
446 64 6,052 6.1 98 82
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000
— Public
No Public
M C —
M C —
0.9 50 9.0
0.7 72 —
0 2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Turkmenistan Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 10
3.1 624 25.3
8
2.9 532 22.0
6 4 2 0 2000
8.1 0.2 0.0 1.5 0
9.2 7.0 — 7.2 0
15.3 38.9 6.0 4.6 79
25.7 95.0 13.6 10.6 96
0.5 — 0.1
— 282 1.4
— 322 12.4
— 154 21.4
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 80 60 40 20
12 0.0 0
14 — 16
80 40.4 199
92 32.5 1,114
— — — —
1.5 17.2 69.5 —
7.2 9.8 16.7 2.08
5.8 11.8 12.0 1.63
0.0 6.3 —
— — —
20.6 20.2 15.6
1.8 7.0 5.0
— — —
— 0.05 —
6.5 0.33 1.8
5.0 0.36 23.9
0 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Turkmenistan Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 8 6 4 2 0 2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Turkmenistan (—) Europe & Central Asia Region
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: Global Insight/WITSA, IMF, ITU, Netcraft, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources. Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. — Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal. a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0–1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.
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