2015 GDP: +8.00%
2016 GDP: +9.00%
2017 GDP: +9.00%
2014-2017 GDP CAGR: +9.07%
Economy: Turkmenistan's extremely corrupt economy relies on two major industries: cotton and gas. The former Soviet republic, which has the fourth-largest known gas reserves in the world, recently started sending its gas to China, and it may even start shipping gas over to Europe.
But "prospects in the near future are discouraging," however, "because of endemic corruption, a poor educational system, government misuse of oil and gas revenues, and [the capital's] reluctance to adopt market reforms," according to the CIA Factbook.
Source: World Bank, CIA World Factbook