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Greece

 

Turkey

 Greece
All information: Greece
 		 Turkey
All information: Turkey
 
Area:131,960 km² 785,350 km²
Population:10,716,000 83,430,000
Official language:Greek Turkish

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Government

Government form:Parliamentary republic Parliamentary republic
Independent since:1830 n.Chr. 1923 n.Chr.
Capital:Athens Ankara


Population

Inhabitants per km²:81.2 106.2
Life expectancy males:79.3 years 74.4 years
Life expectancy females:84.4 years 80.3 years
Average age:42.8 years 29.4 years
Birthrate:8.10 ‰ 16.03 ‰
Deathrate:11.20 ‰ 5.41 ‰
Migrationrate:0.97 ‰ -1.55 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:60 29
Civil rights:59 39
Health:90 64
Climate:71 61
Cost of Living:46 59
Popularity:49 46


Economy

Currency: Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent) Turkish Lira (1 TRY =100 Kurus)
Unemployment rate:16.9 % 13.9 %
Inflation rate:0.25 % 15.18 %
Cost of Living:81.30 % 46.30 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:51.90 % 42.30 %
Average income:17,642 € 8,656 €
Corruption index:48 (bad) 39 (bad)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:187,452 Mio €17.49 M € 680,148 M €8.15 M €
Gross national product:189,055 Mio €17.64 M € 722,375 M €8.66 M €
Exported goods:72,518 M €6.77 M € 220,565 M €2.64 M €
Imported goods:74,312 M €6.93 M € 202,341 M €2.43 M €
Gross debt:331,072 M €30.89 M € 225,106 M €2.70 M €
Budget surplus:2,797 M €0.26 M € -14,364 M €-0.17 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:117,000 km10.92 km 67,333 km0.81 km
Railways:2,548 km0.24 km 12,710 km0.15 km
Waterways:6 km0.00 km 1,200 km0.01 km
Harbours:1,3080.122 1,2340.015
Airports:770.007 980.001


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:56.89 bn kWh5.31 m kWh 231.10 bn kWh2.77 m kWh
Energy production:52.05 bn kWh4.86 m kWh 261.90 bn kWh3.14 m kWh
Energy export:1.04 bn kWh96,768.28 kWh 1.44 bn kWh17,284.03 kWh
Energy imports:9.83 bn kWh917,572.28 kWh 6.33 bn kWh75,872.34 kWh
CO2 emissions:62.43 m t5,826.10 t 372.72 m t4,467.54 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+30 +90
Internet domain:.gr .tr
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:5,001,510467 11,532,900138
Mobile phones:11,882,1001,109 80,790,900968
Internet server:3,201,000299 7,093,00085
Internet users:8,109,169757 61,718,476740



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:4.30 2.70
Physicians per 1000 inh.:4.59 1.76
Diabetes sufferers:4.7 % 11.1 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.0 % 0.2 %
Smokers:39.1 % 29.3 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Greece and Turkey

Daytime temperatures:22.3 °C 19.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:12.5 °C 8.6 °C
Water temperature:18.8 °C 16.1 °C
Relative humidity:66 % 65 %
Absolute humidity:10 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:61.2 78
Sunshine hours per day:7.3 6.6


Native languages

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

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 %