Fashion Statistics Turkey

National data

Metric	Value
Population:	79.4 million
Labor force:	29.4 million
Unemployment rate:	10.4 %
GDP per capita (PPS):	20,500 dollars

Employment

• Number of employees in the manufacturing of textiles: 450,000
• Number of employees in the manufacturing of clothing: 500,000
• Number of employees in the manufacturing of footwear and leather goods: 65,000
• Number of employees in textile, apparel and footwear manufacture: 1 million

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Consumer Expenditure

Metric	Value
Annual consumer expenditure of clothing and footwear:	20 billion dollars

Fashion companies

Turkey is mostly known as a hub for fashion manufacture. The country has 59,000 companies in textile, footwear and apparel manufacturing, which yearly produce over 65 billion dollars per of garments and fashion goods. Nearly all Turkish manufacturers are small or medium sized entities.

The following table lists the Top 5 Largest Fashion Companies in Turkey. The largest company has several brands, such as Mexx, as its subsidiary. All other entries on this list are textile and apparel manufacturers.

	Company name	Market value	Annual revenue	Company type
1	Eroglu Group	2.9 billion dollars	1.9 billion dollars	Private
2	Sanko Tekstil İşletmeleri	472 million dollars	518 million dollars	Private
3	Gülsan Sentetik Dokuma	323 million dollars	355 million dollars	Private
4	Korteks Mensucat	222 million dollars	244 million dollars	Private
5	Beyteks Tekstil	215 million dollars	236 million dollars	Private

Main trading partners in textiles and apparel

Textiles and raw materials

Destination	Value	Origin	Value
Russia	880 million dollars	China	1.9 billion dollars
Italy	754 million dollars	USA	994 million dollars
Germany	451 million dollars	India	850 million dollars
Romania	366 million dollars	Indonesia	752 million dollars
UK	355 million dollars	Italy	560 million dollars

Apparel

Destination	Value	Origin	Value
Germany	3.9 billion dollars	China	906 million dollars
UK	2.5 billion dollars	Bangladesh	772 million dollars
Spain	1.6 billion dollars	Italy	166 million dollars
France	1.1 billion dollars	Egypt	138 million dollars
Netherlands	948 million dollars	India	121 million dollars

Exports (2014)

Exports of textiles and clothing: 30.4 billion dollars

• T-shirts: 3.73 billion dollars
• Women’s suits, non knit: 2.7 billion dollars
• Men’s suits non knit: 2.2 billion dollars
• Sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts,etc: 2 billion dollars
• Women’s suits: 1.7 billion dollars

Exports of footwear and headwear: 741 million dollars

• Footwear, with leather body: 327 million dollars
• Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 166 million dollars
• Footwear with textile body: 90.5 million dollars
• Parts of footwear: 55.5 million dollars
• Other footwear: 53 million dollars

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Imports (2014)

Total imports of clothing, textiles and footwear: 5.5 billion dollars

Imports of footwear and headwear: 1.04 billion dollars

• Footwear, with leather body: 321 million dollars

• Footwear, with textile body: 250 million dollars

• Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 248 million dollars

• Footwear, with leather body: 367 million dollars

• Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 228 million dollars

• Footwear with textile body: 162 million dollars

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