Abstract
It is described as “SME” economic units or enterprises that employed less than 250 people and net revenue or balance sheet less than 220 billion TL. In this study, it is considered SMEs’ importance in Turkish economy with the data annually between 2009 and 2021 by tables and graphs and by comparing larger companies’ data and mentioned the effects of Covid-19 Pandemic to SME statistics. According to the data of 2020, there are 3.295.995 SMEs in Turkey and it means that 99.76 % of all firms operate in Turkey is SME. In 2009, SMEs produced the 44.67 % of all production with 76 % of all workers in Turkey; in 2020, they produced the 42.75 % of all production with 72 % employment. Despite of that, SME Loan is 23 % of all cash credits. This credit rate increased only to 23, 73 % in 2020 by some credit support under government supports because of Covid-19 Pandemic. While SMEs created 44 % of all added-value in 2019, this rate decreased to 41 % in 2020 because of Covid-19 Pandemic. In the same way, it is seen that the added value per employee decreased from 23 % to 21 %. Shortly, even though SMEs are influenced negatively from the Covid-19 Pandemic, they are still engine of production and so economy of Turkey as before.
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