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Kazakhstan vs Turkmenistan

109 shared metrics.

KazakhstanLeads in 81

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TurkmenistanLeads in 28

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Kazakhstan

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Kazakhstan.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country by area.

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Turkmenistan

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Identity

Name origin: the suffix -stan means "land," so the country name means the "Land of the Turkmen [people].

CIA 2026

Geography

Size snapshot: slightly more than three times the size of Georgia.

CIA 2026

Analysis

Kazakhstan leads in 81 of 109 shared metrics, while Turkmenistan leads in 28.

Kazakhstan's Renewable Energy (%) is 763.2x that of Turkmenistan (5.1% vs 0.01%).

Kazakhstan's Scientific Publications is 161.0x that of Turkmenistan (3.6K vs 21.92).

Kazakhstan's All-Time Olympic Medals is 86.0x that of Turkmenistan (87 medals vs 1.0 medals).

Kazakhstan's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 83.7x that of Turkmenistan (1.4 per 100k people vs 0.02 per 100k people).

Kazakhstan's Renewable Energy (%) is 19.0x that of Turkmenistan (2.0% vs 0.10%).

Key Comparisons

Renewable Energy (%)Kazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

5.1%

Turkmenistan

0.01%

Scientific PublicationsKazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

3.6K

Turkmenistan

21.92

All-Time Olympic MedalsKazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

87 medals

Turkmenistan

1.0 medals

EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)Kazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

1.4 per 100k people

Turkmenistan

0.02 per 100k people

Renewable Energy (%)Kazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

2.0%

Turkmenistan

0.10%

Air PassengersKazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

11.88M

Turkmenistan

1.08M

All Metrics

Renewable Energy (%)

Kazakhstan

5.1%

Turkmenistan

0.01%

76316% higher

Scientific Publications

Kazakhstan

3.6K

Turkmenistan

21.92

16099% higher

All-Time Olympic Medals

Kazakhstan

87 medals

Turkmenistan

1.0 medals

8600% higher

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Kazakhstan

1.4 per 100k people

Turkmenistan

0.02 per 100k people

8365% higher

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)

Renewable Energy (%)

Kazakhstan

2.0%

Turkmenistan

0.10%

1900% higher

Air Passengers

Kazakhstan

11.88M

Turkmenistan

1.08M

1002% higher

Freedom of Expression Index

Kazakhstan

0.33

Turkmenistan

0.04

766% higher

Land Area

Kazakhstan

2.70M km²

Turkmenistan

469.9K km²

474% higher

GDP (Nominal)

Kazakhstan

$291,480,274,648.83

Turkmenistan

$51,387,209,872.3

467% higher

Firms with Female Top Manager

Kazakhstan

31.1% of firms

Turkmenistan

6.1% of firms

411% higher

Airports

Kazakhstan

110

Turkmenistan

378% higher

Internet Users (%)

Kazakhstan

93.39%

Turkmenistan

21%

345% higher

Beer Consumption

Kazakhstan

2.6 L/person/yr

Turkmenistan

0.59 L/person/yr

342% higher

Electric Generating Capacity

Kazakhstan

27.62M kW

Turkmenistan

6.51M kW

324% higher

Smoking Rate

Kazakhstan

22.2%

Turkmenistan

5.6%

296% higher

Liberal Democracy Index

Kazakhstan

0.13

Turkmenistan

0.03

285% higher

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Kazakhstan

21.1% of adults

Turkmenistan

5.6% of adults

277% higher

Broadband Access (%)

Kazakhstan

18 per 100 people

Turkmenistan

5.0 per 100 people

260% higher

Population

Kazakhstan

20.43M

Turkmenistan

5.74M

256% higher

Railway Length

Kazakhstan

16.6K km

Turkmenistan

5.1K km

225% higher

Comparison of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan across 109 metrics
				Winner
Renewable Energy (%)	5.1%	0.01%	76316% higher	Kazakhstan
Scientific Publications	3.6K	21.92	16099% higher	Kazakhstan
All-Time Olympic Medals	87 medals	1.0 medals	8600% higher	Kazakhstan
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	1.4 per 100k people	0.02 per 100k people	8365% higher	Kazakhstan
Renewable Energy (%)	2.0%	0.10%	1900% higher	Kazakhstan
Air Passengers	11.88M	1.08M	1002% higher	Kazakhstan
Freedom of Expression Index	0.33	0.04	766% higher	Kazakhstan
Land Area	2.70M km²	469.9K km²	474% higher	Kazakhstan
GDP (Nominal)	$291,480,274,648.83	$51,387,209,872.3	467% higher	Kazakhstan
Firms with Female Top Manager	31.1% of firms	6.1% of firms	411% higher	Kazakhstan
Airports	110	23	378% higher	Kazakhstan
Internet Users (%)	93.39%	21%	345% higher	Kazakhstan
Beer Consumption	2.6 L/person/yr	0.59 L/person/yr	342% higher	Kazakhstan
Electric Generating Capacity	27.62M kW	6.51M kW	324% higher	Kazakhstan
Smoking Rate	22.2%	5.6%	296% higher	Kazakhstan
Liberal Democracy Index	0.13	0.03	285% higher	Kazakhstan
Tobacco Use Prevalence	21.1% of adults	5.6% of adults	277% higher	Kazakhstan
Broadband Access (%)	18 per 100 people	5.0 per 100 people	260% higher	Kazakhstan
Population	20.43M	5.74M	256% higher	Kazakhstan
Railway Length	16.6K km	5.1K km	225% higher	Kazakhstan
Land Border Length	13.4K km	4.2K km	221% higher	Kazakhstan
Total CO2 Emissions	258.8 Mt CO2e	81.41 Mt CO2e	218% higher	Kazakhstan
Electricity Generation	118.05 TWh	37.26 TWh	217% higher	Kazakhstan
University Enrollment Rate	53.46%	20.43%	162% higher	Kazakhstan
Digital Payments Used	85.02% of adults	34.3% of adults	148% higher	Kazakhstan
Protected Land (%)	10.1%	4.3%	135% higher	Kazakhstan
Imports (% GDP)	25.57% of GDP	11.16% of GDP	129% higher	Kazakhstan
Insufficient Physical Activity	28.23% of adults	12.36% of adults	128% higher	Kazakhstan
Corruption Perceptions Index	38 pts	17 pts	124% higher	Kazakhstan
Highest Elevation	7.0K m	3.1K m	123% higher	Kazakhstan
Suicide Rate	14.6 per 100k	6.8 per 100k	114% higher	Kazakhstan
Milk Consumption per Person	288.12 kg/person/yr	137.09 kg/person/yr	110% higher	Kazakhstan
Official Languages Count	2.0	1.0	100% higher	Kazakhstan
Water Stress (%)	38.8%	1.9K%	98% lower	Turkmenistan
Doctors (per 1,000)	3.8 per 1k	1.9 per 1k	94% higher	Kazakhstan
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$40,890.93	$21,213.09	93% higher	Kazakhstan
Elderly Population (%)	8.7%	4.5%	91% higher	Kazakhstan
GNI Per Capita	$12,090	$6,510	86% higher	Kazakhstan
Forest Coverage (%)	1.3%	8.8%	85% lower	Turkmenistan
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	5.1K kWh/person	2.8K kWh/person	82% higher	Kazakhstan
Exports (% GDP)	31.59% of GDP	17.57% of GDP	80% higher	Kazakhstan
Education Spending (% GDP)	4.8% of GDP	2.7% of GDP	79% higher	Kazakhstan
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.68% of GDP	3.2% of GDP	79% lower	Turkmenistan
Nurses & Midwives	6.9 per 1k	3.9 per 1k	77% higher	Kazakhstan
Child Mortality	9.6 per 1k births	40 per 1k births	76% lower	Turkmenistan
Infant Mortality	7.6 per 1k births	31.2 per 1k births	76% lower	Turkmenistan
Electoral Democracy Index	0.26	0.15	75% higher	Kazakhstan
Alcohol Consumption	4.5 L/adult/yr	2.6 L/adult/yr	73% higher	Kazakhstan
Firms Hit by Power Outages	32.45% of firms	18.8% of firms	73% higher	Kazakhstan
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	6.7 per 1k	4.0 per 1k	68% higher	Kazakhstan
Merchant Fleet Size	122	73	67% higher	Kazakhstan
Youth Unemployment Rate	3.8% of youth labor force	10.02% of youth labor force	62% lower	Turkmenistan
Capital Elevation	347 m	219 m	58% higher	Kazakhstan
Women's Political Empowerment	0.68	0.44	56% higher	Kazakhstan
Firms Asked for Bribes	16.42% of firms	10.63% of firms	55% higher	Kazakhstan
Population Density	7.5 /km²	15.67 /km²	52% lower	Turkmenistan
Road Traffic Death Rate	12.2 per 100k	8.0 per 100k	52% higher	Kazakhstan
Time Zones Count	1.0 time zones	2.0 time zones	50% lower	Turkmenistan
Electricity Carbon Intensity	805.32 gCO2/kWh	1.3K gCO2/kWh	38% lower	Turkmenistan
Death Rate	8.1 per 1k	6.0 per 1k	35% higher	Kazakhstan
Energy Use (Per Capita)	3.7K kg oil eq/person	5.6K kg oil eq/person	35% lower	Turkmenistan
Urban Population (%)	62.07%	47.09%	32% higher	Kazakhstan
Spirits Consumption	1.1 L/person/yr	0.85 L/person/yr	31% higher	Kazakhstan
Health Spending (% GDP)	3.7% of GDP	5.4% of GDP	30% lower	Turkmenistan
Can Raise Emergency Money	82.34% of adults	63.54% of adults	30% higher	Kazakhstan
CO2 Per Capita	13.94 t/person/yr	10.81 t/person/yr	29% higher	Kazakhstan
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	127 per 100 people	99 per 100 people	28% higher	Kazakhstan
Firms Making Informal Payments	12.39% of firms	17.21% of firms	28% lower	Turkmenistan
Fertility Rate	2.6 children/woman	2.0 children/woman	27% higher	Kazakhstan
Health Spending Per Capita	$420.98	$579.15	27% lower	Turkmenistan
Armed Forces Personnel	71.0K	57.0K	25% higher	Kazakhstan
Border Neighbors	5.0	4.0	25% higher	Kazakhstan
Women in Parliament (%)	19.39%	25.6%	24% lower	Turkmenistan
Inflation Rate	8.8%	11.5%	23% lower	Turkmenistan
GDP Growth Rate	5.0%	6.3%	21% lower	Turkmenistan
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	6.0 sites	5.0 sites	20% higher	Kazakhstan
Political Corruption Index	0.74	0.90	18% lower	Turkmenistan
Teen Birth Rate	18.23 per 1k	21.23 per 1k	14% lower	Turkmenistan
Forest Area	35.4K km²	41.3K km²	14% lower	Turkmenistan
Government Debt (% GDP)	20.9% of GDP	24.1% of GDP	13% lower	Turkmenistan
Median Age	29.5 years	26.2 years	12% higher	Kazakhstan
Unemployment Rate	4.8%	4.3%	11% higher	Kazakhstan
Human Development Index	0.84	0.76	10% higher	Kazakhstan
Dependency Ratio	61.36% of working-age pop.	56.34% of working-age pop.	9% higher	Kazakhstan
Meat Consumption per Person	64.89 kg/person/yr	60.22 kg/person/yr	8% higher	Kazakhstan
Hypertension Prevalence	42% of adults	39% of adults	8% higher	Kazakhstan
Irrigated Land	17.8K km²	16.5K km²	8% higher	Kazakhstan
Youth Population (%)	29.37%	31.51%	7% lower	Turkmenistan
Agricultural Land (%)	79.37%	84.22%	6% lower	Turkmenistan
Life Expectancy	74.4 years	70.1 years	6% higher	Kazakhstan
Water Withdrawal	24.97 B m³	26.25 B m³	5% lower	Turkmenistan
Obesity Rate	19.34%	20.16%	4% lower	Turkmenistan
Safe Drinking Water (%)	91.55%	94.85%	3% lower	Turkmenistan
R&D Spending (% GDP)	0.14% of GDP	0.14% of GDP	3% higher	Kazakhstan
Sanitation Access (%)	97.94%	99.74%	2% lower	Turkmenistan
Birth Rate	16.83 per 1k	16.43 per 1k	2% higher	Kazakhstan
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	20.03 µg/m³	19.6 µg/m³	2% higher	Kazakhstan
Seafood Consumption per Person	2.7 kg/person/yr	2.7 kg/person/yr	1% higher	Kazakhstan
Coastline Length	0 km	0 km	ranked higher	Kazakhstan
Coal Electricity Share	54.26%	0%	ranked higher	Kazakhstan
Wind Electricity Share	4.7%	0%	ranked higher	Kazakhstan
Solar Electricity Share	1.6%	0%	ranked higher	Kazakhstan
Electricity Access (%)	100%	100%	equal	Kazakhstan
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Kazakhstan
Lowest Elevation	-132 m	-110 m	ranked lower	Turkmenistan
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-3.9% of GDP	3.3% of GDP	ranked lower	Turkmenistan
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	17 gold medals	0 gold medals	ranked higher	Kazakhstan
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.59 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Kazakhstan
Food Waste per Person	139.85 kg/person/yr	139.82 kg/person/yr	equal	Kazakhstan

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Analysis

Kazakhstan leads in 81 of 109 shared metrics, while Turkmenistan leads in 28.

Kazakhstan's Renewable Energy (%) is 763.2x that of Turkmenistan (5.1% vs 0.01%).

Kazakhstan's Scientific Publications is 161.0x that of Turkmenistan (3.6K vs 21.92).

Kazakhstan's All-Time Olympic Medals is 86.0x that of Turkmenistan (87 medals vs 1.0 medals).

Kazakhstan's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 83.7x that of Turkmenistan (1.4 per 100k people vs 0.02 per 100k people).

Kazakhstan's Renewable Energy (%) is 19.0x that of Turkmenistan (2.0% vs 0.10%).

Key Comparisons

Renewable Energy (%)Kazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

5.1%

Turkmenistan

0.01%

Scientific PublicationsKazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

3.6K

Turkmenistan

21.92

All-Time Olympic MedalsKazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

87 medals

Turkmenistan

1.0 medals

Kazakhstan

1.4 per 100k people

Turkmenistan

0.02 per 100k people

Renewable Energy (%)Kazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

2.0%

Turkmenistan

0.10%

Air PassengersKazakhstan leads

Kazakhstan

11.88M

Turkmenistan

1.08M

Renewable Energy (%)

5.1%

0.01%

Scientific Publications

3.6K

21.92

All-Time Olympic Medals

87 medals

1.0 medals

1.4 per 100k people

0.02 per 100k people

Renewable Energy (%)

2.0%

0.10%

Air Passengers

11.88M

1.08M

Freedom of Expression Index

0.33

0.04

Land Area

2.70M km²

469.9K km²

GDP (Nominal)

$291,480,274,648.83

$51,387,209,872.3

Firms with Female Top Manager

31.1% of firms

6.1% of firms

Airports

110

Internet Users (%)

93.39%

21%

Beer Consumption

2.6 L/person/yr

0.59 L/person/yr

Electric Generating Capacity

27.62M kW

6.51M kW

Smoking Rate

22.2%

5.6%

Liberal Democracy Index

0.13

0.03

Tobacco Use Prevalence

21.1% of adults

5.6% of adults

Broadband Access (%)

18 per 100 people

5.0 per 100 people

Population

20.43M

5.74M

Railway Length

16.6K km

5.1K km

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Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Renewable Energy (%)

Scientific Publications

All-Time Olympic Medals

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Renewable Energy (%)

Air Passengers

Freedom of Expression Index

Land Area

GDP (Nominal)

Firms with Female Top Manager

Airports

Internet Users (%)

Beer Consumption

Electric Generating Capacity

Smoking Rate

Liberal Democracy Index

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Broadband Access (%)

Population

Railway Length

Land Border Length

Total CO2 Emissions

Electricity Generation

University Enrollment Rate

Digital Payments Used

Protected Land (%)

Imports (% GDP)

Insufficient Physical Activity

Corruption Perceptions Index

Highest Elevation

Suicide Rate

Milk Consumption per Person

Official Languages Count

Water Stress (%)

Doctors (per 1,000)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Elderly Population (%)

GNI Per Capita

Forest Coverage (%)

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Exports (% GDP)

Education Spending (% GDP)

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Nurses & Midwives

Child Mortality

Infant Mortality

Electoral Democracy Index

Alcohol Consumption

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Merchant Fleet Size

Youth Unemployment Rate

Capital Elevation

Women's Political Empowerment

Firms Asked for Bribes

Population Density

Road Traffic Death Rate

Time Zones Count

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Death Rate

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Urban Population (%)

Spirits Consumption

Health Spending (% GDP)

Can Raise Emergency Money

CO2 Per Capita

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Firms Making Informal Payments

Fertility Rate

Health Spending Per Capita

Armed Forces Personnel

Border Neighbors