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Sustainable Development Goals for Turkmenistan

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Child well-being

UNICEF’S commitment to data for children is guided by the fact that the SDGs impact every aspect of a child’s life. Our work is structured around 5 overarching areas of well-being for every child which are grounded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This human rights-based approach pursues a vision of realizing the rights of every child, especially the most disadvantaged and responds to the call to “leave no child behind”, so that the rights of every child, everywhere, will be fulfilled.

Child-related SDG indicators

The 2030 Agenda includes 17 Global Goals addressing the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Attached to the Goals are 169 concrete targets measured by 232 specific indicators.

To chart and track how ambitious and how realistic country targets are, UNICEF created quantifiable country-level benchmarks for child-related indicators for which data are available to measure and monitor child rights on a common scale.

Provided below is a stocktaking of the country’s performance against the 45 child-related SDG indicators, grouping the results into five areas of child well-being to provide an overall assessment of how children are faring. The countries are evaluated using global and national targets. The analysis provides valuable insights into both historic progress – recognizing the results delivered by countries in the recent past – as well as how much additional effort might be required to achieve the child-related SDG targets. This approach provides a framework to assess ambition as well as the scale of action needed to realize it.

Value
Latest year
with data
Historic progress
Effort needed to meet the 2030 target
Survive+thrive Survive+thrive
2.2.1 Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 (%)
7
2022
Very strong
Very low effort
2.2.2a Prevalence of wasting among children under 5 (%)
4
2019
Strong
High effort
2.2.2a Prevalence of overweight among children under 5 (%)
4
2022
Very strong
High effort
3.b.1 Proportion of surviving infants receiving measles-containing-vaccine first-dose (MCV1) (%)
98
2022
Average
Target met
3.b.1 Proportion of surviving infants receiving 3 doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) (%)
98
2022
Average
Target met
3.1.1 Maternal mortality ratio (deaths per 100,000 live births)
5
2020
Weak
Very low effort
3.1.2 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (%)
100
2019
Weak
Target met
3.2.1 Under-five mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births)
41
2021
Weak
High effort
3.2.2 Neonatal mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births)
24
2021
Very weak
Very high effort
3.3.1 (HIV Incidence) – New HIV infections per 1,000 uninfected population [Children <15]
–
–
No data
No data
3.3.1 (HIV Incidence) – New HIV infections per 1,000 uninfected population [Adolescents 15-19]
–
–
No data
No data
3.7.2 Adolescent birth rate per 1,000 women
27
2017
Weak
Average effort
3.8.1 Coverage of essential health services (index)
75
2021
Average
Very high effort
5.6.1 Proportion of women aged 15–49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding reproductive health care (%)
10
2019
No trend data available
No trend data available
Learning Learning
4.1.1 Proportion of children and young people in grades 2 or 3 achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading (%)
71
2019
No trend data available
No target
4.1.1 Proportion of children and young people in grades 2 or 3 achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in mathematics (%)
53
2019
No trend data available
No target
4.1.1 Proportion of children and young people at the end of primary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading (%)
–
–
No data
No data
4.1.1 Proportion of children and young people at the end of primary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in mathematics (%)
–
–
No data
No data
4.1.1 Proportion of children and young people at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading (%)
–
–
No data
No data
4.1.1 Proportion of children and young people at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in mathematics (%)
–
–
No data
No data
4.1.2 Completion rate in primary education (%)
100
2020
Weak
No target
4.1.2 Completion rate in lower secondary education (%)
100
2020
Weak
No target
4.1.2 Completion rate in upper secondary education (%)
94
2020
Weak
No target
4.2.1 Proportion of children aged 36-59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being, by sex (%)
95
2019
Very strong
High effort
4.2.2 Participation rate in organized learning (one year before the official primary entry age) (%)
–
–
No data
No data
Protection Protection
5.2.1 Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner (%)
–
–
No data
No data
5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 18 (%)
6
2019
Weak
Low effort
5.3.2 Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation (%)
–
–
No data
No data
8.7.1 Proportion of children aged 5-17 years engaged in child labour (%)
0
2016
No trend data available
No trend data available
16.2.1 Proportion of children 1-14 years who experienced any physical punishment and/or psychological aggression by caregivers in the past month (%)
69
2019
No trend data available
No trend data available
16.2.3 Proportion of young women aged 18-29 years who experienced sexual violence by age 18 (%)
–
–
No data
No data
16.2.3 Proportion of young men aged 18-29 years who experienced sexual violence by age 18 (%)
–
–
No data