Government at a Glance 2025: Türkiye
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Trust in public institutions, levels of shared prosperity and satisfaction with public services are important yardsticks of the quality of public governance. They reflect both the outcomes of government actions to support the public and people’s perceptions of government competence in policy design and delivery, as well as their expectations of the behaviour of public institutions and their representatives.
Education and training opportunities help younger people benefit from economic growth and empower them to participate fully in society. In 2023, 28.4% of youth in Türkiye were not in employment, education, or training (NEET), above the OECD average of 12.6%. The percentage of NEET in Türkiye has decreased since 2012, when it was 31.3%.
Good governance is instrumental for enhancing individuals’ sense of dignity in their interaction with governments, restoring individual and collective sense of security in the face of rapid societal and economic changes, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of government to boost productivity. Central to this effort is the strategic use of digital technologies to increase transparency, responsiveness, and data-driven decision-making. Equally important are the modernisation of procurement systems, the upgrading of budgeting frameworks, and the reform of regulatory structures - all of which are essential for navigating the complex challenges ahead.
Governments today must navigate a fast-changing digital landscape and growing public expectations of seamless services. The Digital Government Index (DGI) benchmarks digital government policies along six dimensions: digital by design, data-driven public sector, government as a platform, open by default, user-driven, and proactiveness, with scores ranging from 0 (the lowest) to 1 (the highest) for each dimension. The total DGI score is the average score of all dimensions.
Türkiye scored slightly below the OECD average on the Digital Government Index in 2022 with 0.59 compared to the OECD average of 0.61. Türkiye’s strongest dimension was “Proactiveness”.
Translating green objectives into concrete obligations, such as predefined targets, helps governments in implementing, monitoring, reporting, and evaluating environmental policy objectives. Türkiye incorporates environmental objectives in its procurement-specific policy documents and sets quantitative targets for green public procurement to operationalise these objectives and track progress in green public procurement. In comparison, 24 OECD countries out of 35 (69%) with available data define quantitative targets, while 11 (31%) do not.
Government at a Glance presents the most up-to-date internationally comparable data on how public administrations function and perform in OECD countries, accession countries, and other major economies. Country factsheets highlight key indicators against the OECD average. Data included in the factsheets are derived from the new Government at a Glance data portal, which allows for a more user-friendly and interactive way of comparing countries with each other and the OECD average. The factsheets do not provide a comprehensive picture of public governance performance, but rather a snapshot of key indicators in the three sections of the publication: a) Trust, prosperity and satisfaction with public services; b) Achieving results with good governance practices, and; c) what resources public institutions use and how they are managed.
Data on public finance and economics are derived from the System of National Accounts (SNA) and were extracted on 8 May 2025.
The data on indicators of age profile in the central administration workforce-based on the OECD Survey on the composition of the workforce in central/federal governments-were validated and finalised on 30 November 2024.
OECD average refers to the unweighted average with the exception of public finance indicators.
For more information see https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/government-at-a-glance-2025_0efd0bcd-en.html.
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The full book is available in English: OECD (2025), Government at a Glance 2025, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/0efd0bcd-en
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