GDP: purchasing power parity - $409.4 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $6,200 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
18%
industry:
29%
services:
53% (1998)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 65% (1999 est.)
Labor force:
23.8 million (April 1999)
note:
about 1.5 million Turks work abroad (1994)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 45.8%, services 33.7%, industry 20.5% (April 1999)
Unemployment rate: 7.3% plus underemployment of 6.9% (April 1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$45.2 billion
expenditures:
$66.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $3.4 billion (1999)
Industries: textiles, food processing, autos, mining (coal, chromite, copper, boron), steel, petroleum, construction, lumber, paper
Industrial production growth rate: -5.2% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 116.5 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
69.4%
hydro:
30.5%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0.1% (1999 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 118.5 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports: 209 million kWh (1999 est.)
Electricity - imports: 2.3 billion kWh (1999 est.)
Agriculture - products: tobacco, cotton, grain, olives, sugar beets, pulse, citrus; livestock
Exports: $26 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: apparel 28%, foodstuffs 17%, textiles 12%, metal manufactures 9% (1998)
Exports - partners: Germany 21%, US 9%, UK 7%, Italy 6%, France 6% (1999)
Imports: $40 billion (c.i.f., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery 29%, semi-finished goods 16%, chemicals 14%, transport equipment 11%, fuels 8% (1998)
Imports - partners: Germany 14%, Italy 8%, US 8%, France 8%, Russia 6%, UK 5% (1999)
Debt - external: $104 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $195 million (1993)
Currency: Turkish lira (TL) = 100 kurus (theoretical)
Exchange rates: Turkish liras (TL) per US$1 - 545,584 (January 2000), 418,783 (1999), 260,724 (1998), 151,865 (1997), 81,405 (1996), 45,845.1 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year