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 Turkey
All information: Turkey
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:785,350 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:83,430,000 328,240,000
Official language:Turkish English

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Government

Government form:Parliamentary republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1923 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Ankara Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:106.2 33.4
Life expectancy males:74.4 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:80.3 years 81.1 years
Average age:29.4 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:16.03 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:5.41 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-4.30 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

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Political stability:29 74
Civil rights:39 83
Health:64 74
Climate:61 64
Cost of Living:56 38
Popularity:51 85


Economy

Currency:Turkish Lira (1 TRY = 100 Kurus) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:12.9 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:15.18 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:46.30 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:42.30 % 36.60 %
Average income:8,656 € 58,821 €
Corruption index:39 (bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:680,148 Mio €8.15 M € 19,145,356 M €58.33 M €
Gross national product:722,375 Mio €8.66 M € 19,308,457 M €58.82 M €
Exported goods:220,565 M €2.64 M € 2,258,389 M €6.88 M €
Imported goods:202,341 M €2.43 M € 2,773,678 M €8.45 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:67,333 km0.81 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Railways:12,710 km0.15 km 293,564 km0.89 km
Waterways:1,200 km0.01 km 41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:1,2340.015 3,6730.011
Airports:980.001 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:231.10 bn kWh2.77 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:261.90 bn kWh3.14 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:1.44 bn kWh17,284.03 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:6.33 bn kWh75,872.34 kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:372.72 m t4,467.54 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+90 +1
Internet domain:.tr .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:11,532,903138 107,281,000327
Mobile phones:80,790,877968 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:7,093,00085 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:61,718,479740 290,488,378885



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:2.70 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:1.76 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:11.1 % 10.8 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.2 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:85.0 % 79.0 %
Smokers:29.3 % 25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Turkey and United States

Daytime temperatures:19.9 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:8.6 °C 7.3 °C
Water temperature:16.5 °C 17.7 °C
Relative humidity:65 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:9 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:78 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:6.6 7.2


Native languages

Turkish:87.6 % n/a
English:n/a 82.1 %
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Kurdish:10.6 % n/a
Arabic:1.4 % n/a
Chinese:n/a 0.9 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
German:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Russian:n/a 0.2 %
other:0.4 % 2.6 %


Religions

Islam:99.0 % 1.1 %
Christianity:0.2 % 78.5 %
Jewry:0.1 % 1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a 1.6 %
Hinduism:n/a 1.0 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
Yazidism:0.1 % n/a
other:0.6 % 15.3 %