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:	83,430,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	106.2	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 29.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	16.03 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.41 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.55 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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	Turkey	United States
Political stability:	28	73
Civil rights:	39	83
Health:	64	74
Climate:	60	64
Cost of Living:	89	13
Popularity:	46	86

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:	15.18 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	43.97 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	42.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	9,690 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	40 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	761,425 M US$	9.13 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	808,699 M US$	9.69 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	245,836 M US$	2.95 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	227,059 M US$	2.72 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	67,333 km	0.81 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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:	1,234	0.015	3,673	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	2.77 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	261.90 bn kWh	3.14 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	1.44 bn kWh	17,284.03 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	6.33 bn kWh	75,872.34 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	372.72 m t	4,467.54 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	11,532,900	138	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	80,790,900	968	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	7,093,000	85	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	61,718,476	740	286,441,830	873

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	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	8.6 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	16.1 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	65 %	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 %
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 %