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Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan has a Calm pressure reading, in the middle half.

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54 / 100

#91 of 206

Chance of a conflict escalation in Turkmenistan in November or December 2026: <0.1% · remote

Chance of a conflict escalation in Turkmenistan in November or December 2026

Government attribution notice published 26 October 2026

What counts
In November or December 2026, organised violence on the territory of Turkmenistan, or with Turkmenistan as an active party, must cause at least 25 battle-related deaths in a calendar month and at least twice the monthly average of the preceding three months. A conflict continuing at a steady high intensity does not meet this escalation threshold.
Months measured
the whole of November 2026 and the whole of December 2026.
Decided by
UCDP Candidate Events data (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), best estimate of battle-related deaths, monthly release. The question will be resolved by 5 Feb 2027 if the required UCDP data are available.
Resolution convention
For records spanning calendar months, deaths are allocated in proportion to inclusive calendar days. Events not assigned to a territory under the frozen UCDP place table are excluded from both the target month's total and the average of its preceding three months. Active party means the country's government is coded as a side by UCDP. Certain active-party attribution is retained, and each event is counted once per country.
Published
25 Oct 2026
Our estimate
<0.1% · remote
If data are unavailable
If the required UCDP data are unavailable by 5 Feb 2027, the question is recorded as Unresolved.

Earlier issues in the forecast record

22 Oct 2026 · October or November 2026

24 Oct 2026 · November or December 2026

Population7.6M
CapitalAshgabat
Area488.1k km²
GDP$49.8B (2025)
CurrencyTMT
LanguagesTurkmen, Russian
Armed forces57k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
77.5
L3 Politics
85.75
L4 Events
41.1
L5 Information
89.67
L6 Society
68

Layer readings: method v1.1, from each layer's documented record, same 0-100 scale as country score. Snapshot 28 Oct 2026.

Since 1946

Highest decade mean 89.3 (1990s); lowest 58.4 (2020-2025).

Details

Recorded events 23 · Country record

  • 2022election
  • 2017election
  • 2015currency stress
  • 2012sovereign stress
  • 2012election
  • 2009currency stress
  • 2008currency stress
  • 2008election
  • 1 Jan 2007capital controls
  • 2007election
  • 1 Jan 2005capital controls
  • 2005election
Show all 23
  • 1 Jan 1999capital controls
  • 1997currency stress
  • 1996currency stress
  • 1995currency stress
  • 1994currency stress
  • 1994sovereign stress
  • 1993currency stress
  • 1992currency stress
  • 1992election
  • 1991currency stress
  • 1990election

public country snapshot archive, frozen 10 July 2026. The chart shows mapped historical scores through 2025, with bands at 55, 65 and 80. The 2026 snapshot uses a separate score scale. Its archived crisis category is independent of that number. No numerical change from 2025 to 2026 is implied.

Turkmenistan · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
197378.3Strainarchive reading
198083.1Crisisarchive reading
198183.8Crisisarchive reading
198284.3Crisisarchive reading
198384.4Crisisarchive reading
198485.5Crisisarchive reading
198585.9Crisisarchive reading
198685.9Crisisarchive reading
198785.9Crisisarchive reading
198884.2Crisisarchive reading
198966.6Strainarchive reading
199085.7Crisisarchive reading
199195.0Crisisarchive reading
199295.0Crisisarchive reading
199381.9Crisisarchive reading
199495.0Crisisarchive reading
199595.0Crisisarchive reading
199683.9Crisisarchive reading
199795.0Crisisarchive reading
199883.8Crisisarchive reading
199983.1Crisisarchive reading
200086.3Crisisarchive reading
200185.4Crisisarchive reading
200284.6Crisisarchive reading
200379.5Strainarchive reading
200478.7Strainarchive reading
200577.9Strainarchive reading
200677.0Strainarchive reading
200775.4Strainarchive reading
200874.3Strainarchive reading
200973.9Strainarchive reading
201073.1Strainarchive reading
201158.5Watcharchive reading
201270.7Strainarchive reading
201356.6Watcharchive reading
201458.0Watcharchive reading
201556.4Watcharchive reading
201656.2Watcharchive reading
201755.7Watcharchive reading
201855.7Watcharchive reading
201956.4Watcharchive reading
202059.5Watcharchive reading
202158.9Watcharchive reading
202258.7Watcharchive reading
202358.4Watcharchive reading
202457.9Watcharchive reading
202557.1Watcharchive reading
Turkmenistan · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202654.0Calmarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Trinidad and Tobago, 1968

Details

TTO, 1968

Published archive distance 0.0509. This similarity is not a forecast.

MDV, 1996

Published archive distance 0.0719. This similarity is not a forecast.

ECU, 1960

Published archive distance 0.0759. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 6 Oct 2026, 1 field.

Details
Country change history for Turkmenistan
CycleDateFields changedLayer distance from baselineRecord
date unavailable2026-10-280Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
17 Oct 20262026-10-170Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
6 Oct 20262026-10-061Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
25 Sep 20262026-09-250Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
14 Sep 20262026-09-140Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
4 Sep 20262026-09-040Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
27 Aug 20262026-08-271Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 1 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-142Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · Information: 0 · Society: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
2 Aug 20262026-08-020Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
29 Jul 20262026-07-29T13:40:26Z2Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
10 Jul 20262026-07-10T00:30:00Z0Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
🟢 Calm <55🟡 Watch 55-<65🟠 Strain 65-<80🔴 Crisis 80-100

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026 · Public country snapshot · Data notices

Technical detail

Field sources carry their own dates (shown in each detail).

Record support

How well documented each layer of this country's record is (share of confirmed and sourced fields). Not a pressure reading.

L1 Identity60%
L2 Economy71%
L3 Politics79%
L4 Events50%
L5 Information100%
L6 Society68%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 1Confidence 69.7

Turkmenistan in this snapshot

Turkmenistan (TKM) records Calm pressure at 54.0 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is drifting; its numbered pressure band is 1. The source confidence score is 69.7.

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026. Dataset published 2026-11-05T08:17:49Z. Source: public country snapshot public country index.

5 public layer readings; 0 mapped pressure points in this dated snapshot; 11 country change records; 48 archive readings. Identity is descriptive; absent readings are named beside each layer.

Turkmenistan has pressure score 54/100 in Calm. 90 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 14 share this score. Its competition rank is 91. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Tajikistan (TJK), 54/100, tied; Tuvalu (TUV), 54/100, tied.

Turkmenistan's highest decade mean is recorded in 1990-1999 (10 readings, mean 89.3). The lowest is 2020-2025 (6 readings, mean 58.4). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Turkmenistan: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1973-1973178.378.378.30
1980-1989108366.685.99
1990-19991089.381.99510
2000-20091079.373.986.33
2010-20191059.755.773.10
2020-2025658.457.159.50

Across 47 annual readings (1973-2025), Turkmenistan's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1991-1992, 1994-1995, 1997; the minimum is 55.7 in 2017-2018.

Every published year for Turkmenistan, 1973-2025, is at or above the historical threshold 55: 47 of 47 readings.

Turkmenistan is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 33 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-2010, 2012. The remaining 14 are below 65.

Turkmenistan is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 22 of 47 readings: 1980-1988, 1990-2002. The remaining 25 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Turkmenistan is 2012 to 2013: Strain (70.7) to Watch (56.6). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Turkmenistan records no changed fields against the previous measured cycle at date unavailable (2026-10-28); previous cycle: 17 Oct 2026. Layer counts are distances from baseline, not cycle-change components.

Pressure point readings and their own snapshot date are shown in Pressure points.

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