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Turkmenistan to build $9 bln worth facilities by year-end

23 September 2014 13:00 (UTC+04:00)
Turkmenistan to build $9 bln worth facilities by year-end

By Aynur Jafarova

Turkmenistan will construct around 419 large facilities worth over $9 billion by late 2014, local media reported.

The investments made in the various sectors of the national economy increased by 8.3 percent in the first six months of 2014 compared to the same period of 2013.

Turkmenistan achieves impressive success in the implementation of its socio-economic strategy. The GDP per capita in the country amounted to $19,000.

Since early 2014, Turkmenistan's foreign trade turnover has exceeded $21 billion.

The main exporting countries were Iran, Russia, China, Georgia, Italy, Turkey, Afghanistan and others, while the dominant importing countries were Turkey, China, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Iran, France and Germany.

The share of oil and oil products, gas, vegetable oil, textile, cotton fabric and other goods is huge among the country's exporting products.

Turkmenistan is gradually passing to market economy. This was reflected in the constitution. The national currency was denominated. The exchange rates were unified. The country passed to the international accounting standards in 2014.

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