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Main macroeconomic indicators for Tajikistan – EBRD.






        2.3 GDP growth - Turkmenistan


                               Turkmenistan’s real GDP is expected to grow by 7% in 2022 and 6% in
                               2023, with Turkmen authorities having reported growth at 6.1% in
                               January-July 2022. However, Turkmenistan – known for a notorious
                               lack of transparency in its official economic statistics – has historically
                               reported growth at 6%-7%, with observers largely dismissing the official
                               Turkmen growth figures as unreliable. The World Bank, for instance, in
                               its latest Central Asia forecasting released in January 2023 did not
                               provide a GDP forecast for Turkmenistan, arguing not enough reliable
                               data is available from Ashgabat.


                               In October, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast 2022 GDP
                               growth of only 1.2%. For 2023, it anticipated 2.3%. The latest estimates
                               were published in the Fund’s updated World Economic Outlook (WEO).
























        Main macroeconomic indicators for Turkmenistan – EBRD.
















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