| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $458.2 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
5.8% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $6,700 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 11.7%
industry: 29.8%
services: 58.5% (2003 est.) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
18% (2001) |
| Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : |
lowest 10%: 2.3%
highest 10%: 32.3% (1994) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
25.3% (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
23.79 million
note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2003) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
agriculture 39.7%, industry 22.4%, services 37.9% (3rd quarter, 2001) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $66.79 billion
expenditures: $93.31 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2003) |
| Industries : |
textiles, food processing, autos, mining (coal, chromite, copper, boron), steel, petroleum, construction, lumber, paper |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
8.5% (2003 est.) |
| Electricity - Production : |
116.6 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 79.3%
hydro: 20.4%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.3% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
112.6 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Exports : |
433 million kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Imports : |
4.579 billion kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
tobacco, cotton, grain, olives, sugar beets, pulse, citrus; livestock |
| Exports : |
$49.12 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
apparel, foodstuffs, textiles, metal manufactures, transport equipment |
| Exports - Partners : |
Germany 16.3%, UK 8.6%, US 8%, Italy 7.3%, France 5.7% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$62.43 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
machinery, chemicals, semi-finished goods, fuels, transport equipment |
| Imports - Partners : |
Germany 15.3%, Italy 8.3%, Russia 7.3%, France 6%, UK 4.7%, US 4.4%, Switzerland 4.1% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$147.3 billion (2003) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
ODA, $300 million (2000) |
| Currency : |
Turkish lira (TRL) |
| Currency Code : |
TRL |
| Exchange Rates : |
Turkish liras per US dollar - NA (2003), 1,507,230 (2002), 1,225,590 (2001), 625,218 (2000), 418,783 (1999), 151,865 (1997) |
| Fiscal Year : |
Calendar Year |
