Turkey

Facts

Population:  66,493,970 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  28.42% (male 9,620,291; female 9,276,347) 15-64 years:  65.45% (male 22,116,599; female 21,401,165) 65 years and over:  6.13% (male 1,878,571; female 2,200,997) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  1.24% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  18.31 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  5.95 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.03 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.85 male(s)/female total population:  1.02 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  47.34 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  71.24 years male:  68.89 years female:  73.71 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  2.12 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.01% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  NA
Nationality:  noun:  Turk(s) adjective:  Turkish
Ethnic groups:  Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20%
Religions:  Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (Christian and Jews)
Languages:  Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  85% male:  94% female:  77% (2000)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $444 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  6% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $6,800 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  15% industry:  29% services:  56% (1999)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  2.3% highest 10%:  32.3% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  39% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  23 million (2000 est.) note:  about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (1999)
Labor force - by occupation:  agriculture 38%, services 38%, industry 24% (2000)
Unemployment rate:  5.6% (plus underemployment of 5.6%) (2000 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $54.5 billion expenditures:  $75.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $3.3 billion (2000)
Industries:  textiles, food processing, autos, mining (coal, chromite, copper, boron), steel, petroleum, construction, lumber, paper
Industrial production growth rate:  6.2% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  125.3 billion kWh (2000 est.)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  71% hydro:  29% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (2000 est.)
Electricity - consumption:  119.5 billion kWh (2000 est.)
Electricity - exports:  350 million kWh (2000 est.)
Electricity - imports:  3.35 billion kWh (2000 est.)
Agriculture - products:  tobacco, cotton, grain, olives, sugar beets, pulse, citrus; livestock
Exports:  $26.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  apparel 25.6%, foodstuffs 15.4%, textiles 12.3%, metal manufactures 8.6%, transport equipment 8.1% (1998)
Exports - partners:  Germany 18.7%, US 11.4%, UK 7.4%, Italy 6.3%, France 6.0% (2000 est.)
Imports:  $55.7 billion (c.i.f., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  machinery 28.3%, chemicals 15.2%, semi-finished goods 14.5%, fuels 11%, transport equipment 9.5% (1999)
Imports - partners:  Germany 13.1%, Italy 7.9%, US 7.2%, Russia 7.0%, France 6.6%, UK 5.0% (2000 est.)
Debt - external:  $109 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  ODA, $195 million (1993)
Currency:  Turkish lira (TRL)
Currency code:  TRL
Exchange rates:  Turkish liras per US dollar - 677,621 (December 2000), 625,219 (2000), 418,783 (1999), 260,724 (1998), 151,865 (1997), 81,405 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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