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Turkey

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Turkey is a country. The capital city is Ankara, located in the Western Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 769,630 km², a population of 85,325,965 people and uses the currency New Turkish lira. The President is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Key facts

currency: New Turkish lira
capital city: Ankara
region: Western Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 769,630 km²
population: 85,325,965 people
political leader: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (President)

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central government debt: 35.25 % of GDP
expense: 29.67 % of GDP
GDP: 1,118,252,964,260.77 current US$
inflation: 53.86 annual %
self-employed workers: 28.60 % of total employment
tax revenue: 16.09 % of GDP
unemployment: 9.39 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 23.94 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 512,000 people
democracy score: 4.37
democracy type: Hybrid regime
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 1,099,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 86.00 % of population
military expenditure: 1.50 % of GDP
net migration: -318,070 people
press freedom: 1.48
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 19.83 %
birth rate: 14.47 per 1,000 people
death rate: 5.10 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 441.00 current US$
health expenditure: 4.57 % of GDP
hospital beds: 2.99 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 78
suicide mortality rate: 2.40 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 380,890.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 6.65 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 438.32 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 29.10 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 37.90 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 25.65 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 0.85 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 6.31 % of total
net energy imports: 75.21 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.88 births per woman
forest area: 225,323 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 86.84 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 606.43 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 28.50
methane emissions: 130.48 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 34.20 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 42,719,404 people
male population: 42,606,561 people
renewable energy consumption: 12.00 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 754,924.70 km²
rural population: 19,229,913 people
urban land area: 15,460.69 km²
urban population: 66,096,052 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.05 % of total population

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