Country comparison Turkey : United States

General information

	Turkey	United States
Region:	Western Asia	North America
Area:	785,350 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Turkish	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1923 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Ankara	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Turkey	United States
Population:	84,339,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	107.4	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 29.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	15.78 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.44 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.55 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Turkey	United States
Political stability:	30	67
Civil rights:	38	81
Health:	63	74
Climate:	60	62
Cost of Living:	57	35
Popularity:	49	72

Economy

	Turkey	United States
Currency:	Turkish Lira (1 TRY = 100 Kurus)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	13.9 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	12.28 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	39.38 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	42.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	9,050 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	40 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	720,101 M US$	8.54 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	763,333 M US$	9.05 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	203,288 M US$	2.41 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	232,005 M US$	2.75 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	67,333 km	0.80 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	12,710 km	0.15 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,200 km	0.01 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,216	0.014	3,652	0.011
Airports:	98	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	231.10 bn kWh	2.74 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	261.90 bn kWh	3.11 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	1.44 bn kWh	17,097.65 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	6.33 bn kWh	75,054.19 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	412.97 m t	4,896.54 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Turkey	United States
International dialing:	+90	+1
Internet domain:	.tr	.us

	TUR total	TUR per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	11,532,903	137	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	80,790,877	958	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	7,093,000	84	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	62,391,262	740	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	16,734,853	198	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

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

Climate

Detailed info for: Turkey and United States

	Turkey	United States
Daytime temperatures:	19.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	8.6 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	7.2

Native languages

	Turkey	United States
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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.4 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Turkey	United States
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 %