Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 2 states:
(1) The right to elect shall be possessed by the citizens of Turkmenistan who, by the date of elections, have attained to the age of 18 years.
(2) Any direct or indirect restrictions on voting rights of the citizens of Turkmenistan on the grounds of nationality, origin, property status and official position, place of residence, sex, language, education, relation to religion, political convictions, party affiliation or the lack thereof, shall be forbidden.
(3) Persons not participating in the elections shall be those mentally diseased, or admitted by court legally incapable, as well as persons being kept by sentence of the court in institutions of confinement and those in respect of whom preventive punishment measure of holding in custody was applied in accordance with the procedure established by law.
Article 90 states:
Elections of the President of Turkmenistan, deputies of Mejlis, members of the Peoples Council and Gengesh are universal and equal. The citizens of Turkmenistan, having reached the age of 18, have the right to vote; each voter has one vote. Citizens recognized by the court as incompetent, persons serving sentence in prisons, do not participate in elections. Limiting the electoral rights of citizens in other cases is not acceptable, and is punishable by law.
Article 91 states:
Elections are direct; the elected persons are elected directly by the citizens.
Article 97 states:
Referendums are held through universal, equal, direct and secret vote. Citizens of Turkmenistan with electoral rights can participate in referendums.