Turkey Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $50.0 billion (1984^ $990 rer capita; 5.9% real growth 1983,4.6% average annual real growth 1974-84

Natural resources: antimony, coal, chromium, mercury, copper, borate, oil

Agriculture: main products—cotton, tobacco, cereals, sugar beets, fruits, nuts, and livestock products; self-sufficient in food in average years; an illegal producer of opium poppy for the international drug trade

Major industries: textiles, food processing, mining (coal, chromite, copper, boron minerals), steel, petroleum

Crude steel: 3.0 million tons produced (1984)

Electric power. 8,685,500 kW capacity (1985); 34.238 hillion kWh produced (1985), 667 kWh per capita

Exports: $7,134 million (f.o.b., 1984); cotton, tobac co, fruits, nuts, metals, livestock products, textiles, clothing, cement, leather, glass, ceramics

Imports: $10,757 million jc-i.f., 1984); crude oil, machinery, transjxirt equipment, metals, pharmaceuticals, dyes, plastics, rubber, mineral fuels, fertilizers, chemicals

Major trade partners: (1984) exports— 17.9% FRG, 13.1% Iraq, 10.5% Iran, 7 0% Italy, 5.3% Saudi Arabia; imports—14.3% Iran, 10 9% FRG, 9.9% US, 8.7% Iraq, 6.1% Libya

Budget: (FY84) revenues, $7 55 billion; expenditures, $10.1 billion; deficit, $2.5 billion

Monetary conversion rate: 551.55 Turkish liras=US$l (October 1985) ·

Fiscal year: calendar year

NOTE: The information regarding Turkey on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Turkey 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Turkey 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.