Updating Capital Stock Data for Turkey and Its Relationship with Growth Rate: The Period of 1972-2008

It is important for economical papers obtaining and updating fixed capital stock belonged to a country, an economy or an industry. For this reason in the most developed countries, the data related this variable is published different statistical institutions authorized by government and presented to researchers using. In these countries counting the capital stock more accurately, the literature area is formed detailed for this object. However in a lot of countries there isn’t any capital stock data published from official institutions. In these countries it seems that the researchers try to constitute the data by means of counting linked with the literature of the developed countries. In this similarity, since to update the data of capital stock counted beforehand until 2003 and to provide the papers to utilize this data, we created this paper concerning capital stock. As a result we obtained the capital stock for Turkey from 1972 to 2008.