Turkmenistan is moving against the regional trend: while undernourishment has declined across Central Asia, it has risen in Turkmenistan in recent years. The country also faces nutrition challenges, including child...
The KidsRights Index 2026 ranks Turkmenistan75th globally out of 194 countries and 13th out of 21countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Although the country climbed seven places from its 2025 global ranking, it...
More than half of all migrants from Turkmenistan are women. By mid-2024, women accounted for 52.6% of the country’s emigrant population, up slightly from 52.3% in 2019.This reflects a broader regional pattern: female...
Turkmenistan receives the lowest levels of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Central Asia, and development bank lending remains limited due to fewer opportunities for deeper financial and institutional engagement...
The 2026 “State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” report focuses on understanding and addressing the high cost of healthy diets. In Turkmenistan, 4.1% of the population is undernourished while 1.1...
The State Commission for Admission to Studies is the central governmental body tasked with overseeing the annual higher and secondary vocational education admission process in Turkmenistan. Established by presidential...
Turkmenistan has launched a specialized online platform, dalasgar.bilim.tm, designed to track higher education admission campaigns across 22 universities spanning the country’s five regions, Ashgabat, and Arkadag...
An important dialogue emerged after Progres Foundation’s TikTok video, discussing housing access in Turkmenistan, went viral. The post attracted over half a million views and hundreds of comments sharing personal...
A report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) titled Central Asian Migration to Europe: Poland and Lithuania as Cases Studies of Regular Pathways reveals that the number of Turkmen citizens residing in...
On May 13, 2026, Turkmenistan enacted Order No. 195, mandating that state diplomas be issued in Turkmen and English, officially replacing Order No. 212 of 2019. Under the new rule, transcripts can also be issued in...
