Country comparison: Greece / Turkey

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Greece and Turkey. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Greece	Turkey
Region:	Southern Europe	Western Asia
Area:	131,960 km²	785,350 km²
National language:	Greek	Turkish
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1830 AD	1923 AD
Capital:	Athens	Ankara

Population

Details for Greece and Turkey

	Greece	Turkey
Population:	10,641,000	84,775,000
Inhabitants/km²:	80.6	107.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 73 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 45.3 years	Ø 32.2 years
Birth rate:	7.90 ‰	15.03 ‰
Death rate:	12.20 ‰	6.38 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.00 ‰	-1.55 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Greece	Turkey
Political stability:	65	33
Civil rights:	61	36
Health:	89	60
Climate:	70	62
Cost of Living:	50	94
Popularity:	45	50

Economy

Details for Greece and Turkey

	Greece	Turkey
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Turkish lira (1 TRY =100 Kurus)
Unemployment rate:	14.8 %	13.4 %
Inflation rate:	1.22 %	19.60 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	74.67 %	34.40 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	51.90 %	42.30 %
Average income:	20,000 US$	9,900 US$
Corruption index:	51 (bad)	62 (bad)

	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	214,874 M US$	20.19 M US$	819,035 M US$	9.66 M US$
Gross national product:	212,807 M US$	20.00 M US$	839,645 M US$	9.90 M US$
Exported goods:	87,521 M US$	8.22 M US$	282,851 M US$	3.34 M US$
Imported goods:	103,532 M US$	9.73 M US$	285,578 M US$	3.37 M US$
Gross debt:	417,953 M US$	39.28 M US$	266,233 M US$	3.14 M US$
Budget deficit:	16,072 M US$	1.51 M US$	16,988 M US$	0.20 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Greece and Turkey

	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	117,000 km	10.99 km	67,333 km	0.79 km
Railways:	2,279 km	0.21 km	10,378 km	0.12 km
Waterways:	6 km	0.00 km	1,200 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	1,236	0.1162	1,217	0.0144
Passenger airports:	38	0.0036	51	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for Greece and Turkey

	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	56.89 bn kWh	5.35 m kWh	231.10 bn kWh	2.73 m kWh
Energy production:	52.05 bn kWh	4.89 m kWh	261.90 bn kWh	3.09 m kWh
Energy export:	1.04 bn kWh	97,451.22 kWh	1.44 bn kWh	17,009.65 kWh
Energy imports:	9.83 bn kWh	924,048.10 kWh	6.33 bn kWh	74,667.88 kWh
CO2 emissions:	60.00 m t	5,638.45 t	396.84 m t	4,681.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for Greece and Turkey

	Greece	Turkey
International dialing:	+30	+90
Internet domain:	.gr	.tr

	GRC total	GRC per 1000 inh.	TUR total	TUR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,028,332	473	12,448,604	147
Mobile cellulars:	11,412,995	1073	82,128,104	969
Internet server:	3,201,000	301	7,093,000	84
Internet users:	8,330,717	783	65,505,783	773
Broadband Internet:	4,435,090	417	18,135,736	214

Healthcare system

Details for Greece and Turkey

	Greece	Turkey
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.20	2.85
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.59	1.76
Diabetes:	4.7 %	11.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.04 ‰	0.18 ‰
Smokers:	33.5 %	30.7 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Greece and Turkey

	Greece	Turkey
Daytime temperatures:	22.4 °C	20.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	9.3 °C
Water temperature:	18.8 °C	17.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	63 %
Rain days:	5.1	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	7.4	6.7

Native languages

	Greece	Turkey
Greek:	98.5 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.9 %	87.6 %
Kurdish:	n/a	10.6 %
Arabic:	n/a	1.4 %
other:	0.6 %	0.4 %

Religions

	Greece	Turkey
Islam:	1.3 %	99.0 %
Christianity:	98.0 %	0.2 %
Yazidism:	n/a	0.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	0.7 %	0.6 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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