North Nicosia is the economic center of Northern Cyprus
Currency
Turkish lira (₺) (TRY)
Fiscal year
Calendar year
Trade organisations
ECO (observer)
Statistics
GDP
$4.234 billion (nominal, 2018)[1]
GDP rank
157th (nominal, if ranked according to the World Bank)
GDP growth
5.0% (2018)[1]
GDP per capita
$14,942 (Nominal, 2018)[1]
Inflation (CPI)
10.2% (2018)[1]
Unemployment
5% (2018)[1]
Main industries
tourism, education, agriculture
External
Exports
$131 million (2014)[2]
Export goods
Dairy products, raw and processed citrus, rakı, scrap, chicken, potatoes
Main export partners
Turkey, Arab League countries[3]
Imports
$1.816 billion dollars[4]
Main import partners
Turkey, European Union
All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars.
The economy of Northern Cyprus is dominated by the services sector (69% of GDP in 2007), which includes the public sector, trade, tourism and education. Industry (light manufacturing) contributes 22% of GDP and agriculture 9%.[5] Northern Cyprus's economy operates on a free-market basis, with a significant portion of administration costs funded by Turkey. Northern Cyprus uses the Turkish lira as its currency, which links its economic situation to the economy of Turkey.
As of 2014, the GDP per capita of Northern Cyprus was $15,109, and the GDP was $4.039 billion. The economy grew by 4.9% in 2014 and 2.8% in 2013, meaning that Northern Cyprus is growing faster than the Republic of Cyprus.[6][7] Northern Cyprus has seen economic growth and declining unemployment throughout the 2010s; the unemployment rate in 2015 was at 7.4%,[8] down from 8.3% in 2014.[9] The inflation rate in June 2015 was at 3.18%.[10][9][11]
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^"KKTC Merkez Bankası 2014 IV. Çeyrek Raporu" (PDF) (in Turkish). TRNC Central Bank. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
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^"KKTC'de işsizlik %7.4". Kıbrıs. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
^ ab"En yüksek işsizlik oranı Güzelyurt'ta" (in Turkish). Kıbrıs Postası. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
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