Literacy rate in Turkmenistan in 2022 — 99.9%. Ranked 4 in the world out of 45. Since 1995, the indicator has risen by 1.12 pp.
1995–2022 · % of population aged 15+
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Turkmenistan
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 99.9 | — |
| 1995 | 98.78 | — |
The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages
Uzbekistan
100
Turkmenistan
99.9
The share of the population aged 15 and older able to read and write a short simple statement about their everyday life. The UNESCO definition is deliberately minimal — it is the threshold of functional literacy, not an assessment of the quality of education. In most countries the data come from censuses and surveys, so they are updated irregularly.
Important: The series is incomplete: values are published only for the years in which a census or a literacy survey was conducted.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.