Statistical Facts

Press release… The Covid-19 virus has changed many habits, as well as threatening the health of humanity. With the development of technology, digitalization and e-commerce pandemic have jumped. 7 percent of world merchandise trade in 2020 contracted 65 percent of e-commerce in Turkey and throughout the world; It grew by …

Turkey posted a 14.97% annual rise in consumer prices in January, the country’s statistical authority announced on Feb. 3.  The annual figure was up 0.37 percentage points last month, rising from 14.60% in December 2020, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). The inflation rate in January 2020 stood at 12.15%, data showed. …

Press release… Aegean Region, where exports firstly began in Turkey, according to data from customs offices, made an export of 25 billion 259 million dollars in 2020, while its imports remained at 18 billion 210 million dollars. According to a written statement made by the Aegean Exporters’ Associations, (EİB) the …

Press release… Aegean fishermen exported three out of every four Turkish fish… Aegean fishermen set an export target of 1 billion dollars for 2023… Aegean exporters of aquatic products has made 741 million dollars of exports and marked their brand in Turkey’s fisheries exports amounted to 1 billion 53 million …

While organic agriculture has become very popular in recent years, it has been ascertained that organic agriculture has increased by 46 percent since 2012 among European countries. According to the information obtained by the media monitoring agency, Ajans Press, from Eurostat data, organic agriculture statistics in EU countries have been …

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday reiterated his frustration with what he said were major differences in food prices and warned that tradesmen could face heavy fines if they keep charging unjustifiably high prices. “We see that there are very serious price differences in vegetables, fruits and legumes,” Erdoğan told …

The Zero Waste project, launched in 2017 under the auspices of First Lady Emine Erdogan, brought 17 billion Turkish liras ($3.08 billion) to the Turkish economy from June 2017 to the end of 2020. The project aims to contain waste under sustainable development principles, leaving a clean and developed Turkey …

Turkey broke a new record in electricity generation from wind. According to data from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources on January 24, 2020, Sunday, the share of wind energy in electricity production that took place in Turkey was 21.4 percent. Minister of Energy Fatih Dönmez who made an …

Anti-poverty campaigner Oxfam warned Monday that the world would face the biggest increase in global inequality on record as a result of the fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic unless governments radically reorganize their economies. In a report geared to inform discussions at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) online panels of political …

Press release… Dried fruit exports to China increased by 21 percent… Almost all of our dried fruit sector is of great importance for the economy and foreign trade of our country and our region with its structure based on domestic inputs. Our dried fruits come to the fore within the …