Cultural expenditures increased last year in Turkey
Published 02 Dec,2020 via Hürriyet Daily News - Cultural expenditures increased by 4.7 percent in Turkey in 2019 compared to the previous year and reached 56.9 million Turkish Liras.
According to data provided by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK), 59.8 percent of the cultural expenditures were made by general government and 40.2 percent were private cultural expenditures. The rate of the total cultural expenditures in the gross domestic product was 1.3 percent in 2019. This figure was 1.5 percent in 2018.
General government expenditures on culture decreased by 2.5 percent in 2019 compared to 2018 and it was 34 million liras. Some 71.7 percent of the expenditures were made from the central government budget and 28.3 percent from the local government budget.
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