Human Development & Quality of Life in Turkmenistan
HDI 0.764 · UNDP rank 95 · latest published data
For 2023, Turkmenistan records HDI 0.764 and UNDP rank 95; that headline belongs to the high human development category. The aggregate hides useful detail: Planetary pressures reduce the adjusted index to 0.667, a 12.7% change from HDI. The profile also records that the health component is anchored by life expectancy of 70.1 years.
What sits inside Turkmenistan's HDI
Within the UNDP framework, Turkmenistan's health, education and income inputs are 70.1 life expectancy, 13.2 expected schooling, 11.2 mean schooling and $17,716 GNI per capita in 2021 PPP terms. They belong to the HDI calculation rather than separate DigifyWorld scores.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
The broader UNDP dashboard for Turkmenistan adds PHDI 0.667 to the HDI result. They complement one another, but none is treated as a substitute for another.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
The OECD comparison used here does not provide a life-satisfaction observation that this Turkmenistan page can reproduce. No value is inferred when the underlying source does not publish one.
What Turkmenistan's numbers say together
For Turkmenistan, the planetary-pressure adjustment changes the index by 12.7%. Read together, these measures show why human development, distribution, environmental pressure and experienced well-being should not be treated as interchangeable.
Turkmenistan's HDI is 0.764 for 2023, placing it at UNDP rank 95. The index summarizes health, education and income rather than every dimension of day-to-day well-being. For the profile as a whole, preserve the distinction between level and distribution instead of treating all development measures as interchangeable.
The PHDI is 0.667, with a 12.7% adjustment from the HDI value in UNDP's 2023 table.
Frequently asked questions
What is Turkmenistan's HDI?
UNDP's Human Development Report 2025 gives Turkmenistan an HDI of 0.764 for 2023 and rank 95.
Is an inequality-adjusted HDI available for Turkmenistan?
No IHDI observation is reproduced for Turkmenistan because the relevant UNDP table is blank. No proxy is inserted for a value the source does not report.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
This profile does not fill the quality-of-life section for Turkmenistan simply to complete the layout. A missing source value is shown as unavailable.
Is HDI the same as quality of life?
No. UNDP's HDI focuses on longevity, education and income. A subjective well-being observation is contextual information here, not an HDI component.
Sources & methodology
Sources for the development indicators and definitions shown above.
View sources used for this page
Primary source for 2023 HDI and its components, plus IHDI, GDI, GII and PHDI where reported.
Report edition underlying the 2023 human-development indices and ranking.
Data note: Reference years are shown with each indicator; unavailable observations remain unfilled.