Turkey's economy has been able to supply a broad range of goods
and services since the early 1950s. Since then, the mix of domestic
production has seen a shift from agriculture to manufacturing, and then
to services. In the early 1950s, agriculture made up a little under 50
percent of
gross domestic product
(GDP), while the manufacturing sector's share was about 20
percent. In the 1970s, with the government's continued emphasis
on
industrialization, manufacturing caught up with agriculture for the
first time and surpassed it. This trend continued until the 1980s. With
the economic reforms of the 1980s, the economic shift accelerated as all
sectors exhibited strong growth, though both manufacturing and services
grew much more rapidly. By the late 1990s, the services sector began to
dominate the domestic economy: in 1999, the services sector made up 56
percent of GDP, while manufacturing was at 29 percent and agriculture at
15 percent. However, all 3 remain vital to the Turkish economy.
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