Country comparison: Tunisia / Turkey

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

General information

	Tunisia	Turkey
Region:	Northern Africa	Western Asia
Area:	163,610 km²	785,350 km²
National language:	Arabic	Turkish
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1956 AD	1923 AD
Capital:	Tunis	Ankara

Population

Details for Tunisia and Turkey

	Tunisia	Turkey
Population:	12,263,000	84,775,000
Inhabitants/km²:	75.0	107.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 73 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 32.7 years	Ø 32.2 years
Birth rate:	16.63 ‰	15.03 ‰
Death rate:	6.75 ‰	6.38 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.33 ‰	-1.55 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Tunisia	Turkey
Political stability:	41	33
Civil rights:	47	36
Health:	57	60
Climate:	76	62
Cost of Living:	98	94
Popularity:	40	50

Economy

Details for Tunisia and Turkey

	Tunisia	Turkey
Currency:	Tunesian dinar (1 TND = 1000 Millimes)	Turkish lira (1 TRY =100 Kurus)
Unemployment rate:	16.8 %	13.4 %
Inflation rate:	5.71 %	19.60 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	30.92 %	34.40 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	42.30 %
Average income:	3,540 US$	9,900 US$
Corruption index:	56 (bad)	62 (bad)

	TUN: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	46,687 M US$	3.81 M US$	819,035 M US$	9.66 M US$
Gross national product:	43,394 M US$	3.54 M US$	839,645 M US$	9.90 M US$
Exported goods:	19,743 M US$	1.61 M US$	282,851 M US$	3.34 M US$
Imported goods:	24,269 M US$	1.98 M US$	285,578 M US$	3.37 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Tunisia and Turkey

	TUN: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,418 km	1.58 km	67,333 km	0.79 km
Railways:	1,777 km	0.14 km	10,378 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	71	0.0058	1,217	0.0144
Passenger airports:	9	0.0007	51	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for Tunisia and Turkey

	TUN: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	15.27 bn kWh	1.25 m kWh	231.10 bn kWh	2.73 m kWh
Energy production:	18.44 bn kWh	1.50 m kWh	261.90 bn kWh	3.09 m kWh
Energy export:	500.00 m kWh	40,773.24 kWh	1.44 bn kWh	17,009.65 kWh
Energy imports:	134.00 m kWh	10,927.23 kWh	6.33 bn kWh	74,667.88 kWh
CO2 emissions:	29.91 m t	2,439.06 t	396.84 m t	4,681.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for Tunisia and Turkey

	Tunisia	Turkey
International dialing:	+216	+90
Internet domain:	.tn	.tr

	TUN total	TUN per 1000 inh.	TUR total	TUR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,533,273	125	12,448,604	147
Mobile cellulars:	14,852,857	1211	82,128,104	969
Internet server:	576	0	7,093,000	84
Internet users:	8,581,814	700	65,505,783	773
Broadband Internet:	1,496,611	122	18,135,736	214

Healthcare system

Details for Tunisia and Turkey

	Tunisia	Turkey
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.18	2.85
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.27	1.76
Diabetes:	8.5 %	11.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.36 ‰	0.18 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	88.0 %	81.0 %
Smokers:	24.6 %	30.7 %

Climate

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

	Tunisia	Turkey
Daytime temperatures:	25.9 °C	20.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	14.6 °C	9.3 °C
Water temperature:	19.4 °C	17.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	62 %	63 %
Rain days:	3.5	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	8.2	6.7

Native languages

	Tunisia	Turkey
Turkish:	n/a	87.6 %
Arabic:	69.9 %	1.4 %
Arabic-French:	26.3 %	n/a
Kurdish:	n/a	10.6 %
Arabic-French-English:	3.2 %	n/a
other:	0.6 %	0.4 %

Religions

	Tunisia	Turkey
Islam:	99.1 %	99.0 %
Christianity:	n/a	0.2 %
Yazidism:	n/a	0.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	0.9 %	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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