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Turkey at a Glance Economy: National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $305.2 billion (1994 est.) National product real growth rate: -5% (1994 est.) National product per capita: $4,910 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 106% (1994) Unemployment rate: 12.6% (1994) Exports: $15.3 billion (f.o.b., 1993) Commodities: manufactured products 72%, foodstuffs 23%, mining products 4% (1993) Partners: Germany 24%, Russia 7%, US 7%, UK 6% (1993) Imports: $27.6 billion (f.o.b., 1993) Commodities: manufactured products 71%, fuels 14%, foodstuffs 6% (1993) Partners: Germany 15%, US 11%, Italy 9%, Russia 8% (1993) External debt: $66.6 billion (1994) Industrial production: growth rate 6.7% (1993); accounts for 26% of GDP Electricity: Capacity: 18,710,000 kW Production: 71 billion kWh Consumption per capita: 1,079 kWh (1993) Industries: textiles, food processing, mining (coal, chromite, copper, boron), steel, petroleum, construction, lumber, paper. Agriculture: accounts for 16% of GDP; products - tobacco, cotton, grain, olives, sugar beets, pulses, citrus fruit, variety of animal products; self-sufficient in food most years. Currency: 1 Turkish lira (TL) = 100 kurus Exchange rates: Turkish liras (TL) per US$1 - 1997: December 1996: May 1996: 78,000 1995: December 1994: 37,444.1 1994: 29,608.7 1993: 10,984.6 1992: 6,872.4 1991: 4,171.8 1990: 2,608.6 1980 (January 24): 71.00 1979 December: 47.00 Fiscal year: Calendar year Go Back to Turkey at a Glance