Turkey – TR

EU regions: Turkey

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	8
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	21.4
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	3.4
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2024q4	8.9
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q4	46.3
percentage of workers usually working from home	2023	3.5
percentage of part time workers	2024	11.52
percentage of part time workers, men	2024	8.31
percentage of part time workers, women	2024	17.97
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2025q1	38.7
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2018	54.2
monthly minimum wage in €	2025q1	708
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2023q3	1199
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2024	36 366
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2014	-1.3
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2023	25.5
gender gap in employment rate	2024	50.41
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	166.2
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024q4	9.4
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q4	15.5
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2024q4	27
NEET	2024	22.9
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2024	71
HICP inflation	June 2025	35.1
Employment
employment rate	2024	55.2
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	41.5

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Subregions: Istanbul Province, West Marmara Region, Aegean Region (statistical), East Marmara Region (statistical), West Anatolia Region (statistical), Mediterranean Region (statistical), Central Anatolia Region (statistical), West Black Sea Region (statistical), East Black Sea Region (statistical), Northeast Anatolia Region (statistical), Central East Anatolia Region (statistical), Southeast Anatolia Region (statistical)

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024q4	8.7
youth unemployment rate	2024q4	15.7
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q4	7.1
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q4	1.6
share of long term unemployed	2024	19.4

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Turkey

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 3155.6 E: 1544.2; U: 251.8; I: 1359.6	P: 4887.7 E: 2641.2; U: 475.8; I: 1770.7	P: 4085.2 E: 2726.7; U: 580.7; I: 777.8
Y30-39	P: 5012.9 E: 2699.6; U: 282.9; I: 2030.4	P: 3135.1 E: 2115.3; U: 218.8; I: 801.0	P: 4400.9 E: 3460.4; U: 260.1; I: 680.4
Y40-49	P: 7292.5 E: 4175.7; U: 316.4; I: 2800.4	P: 2687.9 E: 1886.0; U: 127.1; I: 674.8	P: 2371.9 E: 1938.7; U: 108.8; I: 324.4
Y50-59	P: 7177.0 E: 3249.6; U: 208.4; I: 3719.0	P: 1446.2 E: 707.5; U: 57.2; I: 681.5	P: 1157.4 E: 741.7; U: 36.1; I: 379.6
Y60-69	P: 5575.5 E: 1372.0; U: 56.7; I: 4146.8	P: 899.1 E: 215.1; U: 13.7; I: 670.3	P: 653.6 E: 195.6; U: 9.0; I: 449.0

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	85 372 376
population density	2023	111.3
old-age dependency ratio	2024	15
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q4	5.6
aggregate replacement ratio	2024	0.68
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2024	1.77

Employment by sectors, Turkey

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	4742	15%	B-E	6762	21%
F	2157.2	7%	G-I	8279	25%
J	349.8	1%	K	350.5	1%
L	365.8	1%	M_N	2179.3	7%
O-Q	6211.9	19%	R-U	1191.1	4%
TOTAL	32 589	100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije]), officially the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti [ˈtyɾcije dʒumˈhuːɾijeti] (listen)), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, the part of Turkey in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorous strait and the Dardanelles (collectively called the Turkish Straits). Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest; Georgia to its northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the south. Istanbul is the largest city while Ankara is the capital. Approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish. Kurds are the largest minority; the size of the Kurdish population is a subject of dispute with estimates placing the figure at anywhere from 12 to 25 per cent of the population.

At various points in its history, the region has been inhabited by diverse civilizations including the Assyrians, Greeks, Thracians, Phrygians, Urartians, and Armenians. Hellenization started during the era of Alexander the Great and continued into the Byzantine era. The Seljuk Turks began migrating into the area in the 11th century, and their victory over the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 symbolizes the start and foundation of Turkey. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, when it disintegrated into small Turkish principalities.

Other: Turkey

Neighbours: Bulgaria, Greece

Subregions: Istanbul Province, West Marmara Region, Aegean Region (statistical), East Marmara Region (statistical), West Anatolia Region (statistical), Mediterranean Region (statistical), Central Anatolia Region (statistical), West Black Sea Region (statistical), East Black Sea Region (statistical), Northeast Anatolia Region (statistical), Central East Anatolia Region (statistical), Southeast Anatolia Region (statistical)

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Turkey – TR, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PTR, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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