Economy of Turkey

Economy of Türkiye
Istanbul is the largest city in Europe[a][b] and the chief financial and economical center of Turkey.
CurrencyTurkish lira (TRY, ₺)
Calendar year[2]
Trade organisations
G-20, OECD, EU Customs Union, WTO, MIKTA, BSEC, ECO, OTS and others
Country group
Statistics
PopulationIncrease 85,372,377[6]
GDP
GDP rank
GDP growth
  • +5.1% (2023)
  • +3.0% (2024f) [7]
GDP per capita
  • Increase $15,666 (nominal; 2024)[7]
  • Increase $40,283 (PPP; 2024)[7]
GDP per capita rank
GDP by sector
Positive decrease 48,58% (2024)[9]
Population below poverty line
  • Positive decrease 14.4% at 50% of the median equivalised income (2022)[10]
  • Positive decrease 30.7% at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE 2023)[11]
Positive decrease 44.2 medium inequality (2023)[12]
Decrease 34 out of 100 points (2023; 115th rank)
Labour force
  • Increase 34,796,000 (2023)[15]
  • about 3.2 million Turks work abroad[2]
  • Increase 57.3% employment rate (2023)[16]
Labour force by occupation
Unemployment
  • Positive decrease 8.5% (2023)[15]
  • Positive decrease 16.3% youth unemployment rate (15 to 24 year-olds; October 2023)[15]
Average gross salary
35,650₺ / 1,115$ / 1,020€ (per month, 2024)[18]
27,550₺ / 860$ / 790€ (per month, 2024)[18]
Main industries
External
ExportsIncrease $255.8 billion (2023)[19]
Export goods
Main export partners
ImportsPositive decrease $361.8 billion (2023)[21]
Import goods
Main import partners
FDI stock
  • Increase $180.3 billion (31 December 2017 est.)[2]
  • Increase Abroad: $47.44 billion (31 December 2017 est.)[2]
Positive decrease −1.74% of GDP (2021)[23]
Negative increase $500 billion (2024) (24th)[24]
Public finances
Positive decrease 29.5% of GDP (2024)[7]
Decrease −5.4% (of GDP) (2023) [25]
Revenues$210.5 billion (2020 est.)[2]
Expenses$249.2 billion (2020 est.)[2]
Economic aiddonor: $8.399 billion, 0.79% of GNI (2018)[26][27]
  • Fitch:[30]
  • BB-
  • Outlook:Positive (September 2024)
  • Scope:[31]
  • B
  • Outlook: Positive (June 2024)
Increase $154. billion (2024) (22nd)[32]
All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars.
Economy of Turkey
Emblem of Turkey
Economic history
Money
Stock exchange
Major projects
Related topics
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After becoming one of the early members of the Council of Europe in 1950, Turkey became an associate member of the EEC in 1963, joined the EU Customs Union in 1995 and started full membership negotiations with the European Union in 2005.[33][34]
Turkey is a founding member of the OECD (1961) and G20 (1999).

Turkey is a founding member of the OECD and G20. The country's economy ranked as the 17th-largest in the world and 7th-largest in Europe by nominal GDP in 2024. It also ranked as the 12th-largest in the world and 5th-largest in Europe by PPP in 2024. Turkey is a developing,[3] upper-middle income, mixed economy. Turkey has often been defined as a newly industrialized country since the turn of the 21st century.[35][36][37] The country is the fifth most visited destination in the world,[38] and has over 1,500 R&D centres established both by multinational and national firms.[39] Turkey is among the world's leading producers of agricultural products, textiles, motor vehicles, transportation equipment, construction materials, consumer electronics, and home appliances. Among OECD nations, Turkey has a highly efficient and strong social security system; social expenditure stood at roughly 12.5% of GDP.[40][need quotation to verify]

Over the past 20 years, there have been major developments in the financial and social aspects of Turkey's economy, such as increases in employment and average income since 2000.[41] A period of strong economic growth between 2002 and 2013 (except for 2009)[42] was followed by a slowdown in growth in terms of USD-based nominal GDP figures between 2014 and 2020,[42] especially during the 2018 Turkish currency and debt crisis, although the growth sustained in these years as well in terms of nominal GDP.[42] Furthermore, there has been a steady recovery and a faster pace in growth in Turkey's GDP figures since 2021,[42] which have reached their all-time highest values by the end of 2023.[42][43] Growth-focused financial policies, such as the preference to keep interest rates as low as possible (dubbed Erdoganomics[44][45]) have led to high inflation in recent years.[46]

Without a carbon price exporters to the European Union will have to pay the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism from 2026,[47] and in 2024 they started hedging against this by buying EU Allowances.[48]


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