Demographics of Turkey
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Turkey, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
In 2019, the population of Turkey was 83.2 million with a growth rate of 1.39% per annum. Turkish people are the largest ethnic group, followed by Kurdish people.
The population is relatively young, with 23.6% falling in the 0–14 age bracket. According to OECD/World Bank population statistics, from 1990 to 2008 the population growth in Turkey was 16 million or 29%.
Population
Life expectancy
Source: UNVital statistics
UN estimates
The figures from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs:Registered births and deaths
Birth statistics of Turkey from 2001 onward are from the Central Population Administrative System database which is available on-line. Birth statistics are updated continually because MERNIS has dynamic structure.In 2010 Turkey had a crude birth rate of 17.2 per 1000, in 2011 16.7, down from 20.3 in 2001. The total fertility rate in 2010 was 2.05 children per woman, in 2011 2.02. The crude birth rate in 2010 ranged from 11.5 per 1,000 in West Marmara , similar to neighbouring Bulgaria, to 27.9 per 1,000 in Southeast Anatolia , similar to neighbouring Syria. Similarly, in 2012, the TFR ranged from 1.43 in Kırklareli, to 4.39 in Şanlıurfa. Death statistics from MERNIS are available as of 2009. Mortality data prior to 2009 are incomplete.
| Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural change | Crude birth rate | Crude death | Natural increase | Total fertility rate | |
| 1990 | 1,392,000 | 388,000 | 1,004,000 | |||||
| 1991 | 1,390,000 | 391,000 | 999,000 | |||||
| 1992 | 1,388,000 | 394,000 | 994,000 | |||||
| 1993 | 1,385,000 | 396,000 | 989,000 | |||||
| 1994 | 1,372,000 | 399,000 | 973,000 | |||||
| 1995 | 1,368,000 | 402,000 | 966,000 | |||||
| 1996 | 1,386,000 | 419,000 | 967,000 | |||||
| 1997 | 1,317,000 | 424,000 | 893,000 | |||||
| 1998 | 1,318,000 | 426,000 | 892,000 | |||||
| 1999 | 1,313,000 | 427,000 | 886,000 | |||||
| 2000 | 1,307,000 | 422,000 | 885,000 | |||||
| 2001 | 1,323,341 | 175,137 | 1,148,204 | 20.3 | 2.37 | |||
| 2002 | 1,229,555 | 175,434 | 1,054,121 | 18.6 | 2.17 | |||
| 2003 | 1,198,927 | 184,330 | 1,014,597 | 17.9 | 2.09 | |||
| 2004 | 1,222,484 | 187,086 | 1,035,398 | 18.1 | 2.11 | |||
| 2005 | 1,244,041 | 197,520 | 1,046,521 | 18.2 | 2.12 | |||
| 2006 | 1,255,432 | 210,146 | 1,045,286 | 18.1 | 2.12 | |||
| 2007 | 70,586,256 | 1,289,992 | 212,731 | 1,077,261 | 18.4 | 2.16 | ||
| 2008 | 71,517,100 | 1,295,511 | 215,562 | 1,079,949 | 18.2 | 2.15 | ||
| 2009 | 72,561,312 | 1,266,751 | 369,703 | 897,048 | 17.6 | 5.1 | 12.5 | 2.10 |
| 2010 | 73,722,988 | 1,261,169 | 366,471 | 894,698 | 17.2 | 5.0 | 12.2 | 2.08 |
| 2011 | 74,724,269 | 1,252,812 | 376,162 | 876,650 | 16.9 | 5.1 | 11.7 | 2.05 |
| 2012 | 75,627,384 | 1,294,605 | 376,520 | 918,085 | 17.2 | 5.0 | 12.2 | 2.11 |
| 2013 | 76,667,864 | 1,297,505 | 373,041 | 924,464 | 17.0 | 4.9 | 12.1 | 2.11 |
| 2014 | 77,695,904 | 1,350,353 | 391,091 | 959,262 | 17.5 | 5.1 | 12.4 | 2.19 |
| 2015 | 78,741,053 | 1,335,564 | 405,528 | 930,036 | 17.1 | 5.2 | 11.9 | 2.15 |
| 2016 | 79,814,871 | 1,313,615 | 422,827 | 890,788 | 16.6 | 5.3 | 11.3 | 2.11 |
| 2017 | 80,810,525 | 1,295,784 | 426,504 | 869,280 | 16.1 | 5.3 | 10.8 | 2.07 |
| 2018 | 82,003,882 | 1,248,847 | 426,106 | 822,741 | 15.3 | 5.2 | 10.1 | 2.00 |
| 2019 | 83,154,997 | 1,183,652 | 435,941 | 747,711 | 14.3 | 5.3 | 9.0 | 1.88 |
Birth and death rate by region and year
| Region | Population | Birth Rate /2017 | Birth Rate /2016 | Birth Rate /2015 | Birth Rate /2014 | Birth Rate /2013 | Birth Rate /2012 | Birth Rate /2011 | Birth Rate /2010 | Birth Rate /2009 |
| Turkey | 82003882 | 16.1 | 16.5 | 17.1 | 17.5 | 17.0 | 17.2 | 16.8 | 17.2 | 17.6 |
| İstanbul | 15067724 | 15.5 | 16.2 | 16.7 | 17.0 | 16.4 | 16.5 | 15.8 | 16.3 | 16.4 |
| West Marmara | 3569552 | 11.7 | 11.8 | 12.0 | 12.1 | 11.9 | 11.9 | 11.6 | 11.5 | 11.7 |
| Aegean | 10514200 | 12.8 | 13.1 | 13.6 | 13.8 | 13.4 | 13.7 | 13.2 | 13.3 | 13.7 |
| East Marmara | 7968135 | 14.6 | 14.9 | 15.2 | 15.3 | 14.8 | 15.0 | 14.5 | 14.8 | 15.2 |
| West Anatolia | 7961507 | 14.6 | 15.1 | 15.5 | 15.8 | 15.4 | 15.4 | 15.2 | 15.4 | 15.8 |
| Mediterranean | 10461409 | 16.2 | 16.9 | 17.5 | 18.0 | 17.6 | 17.8 | 17.3 | 17.8 | 18.3 |
| Central Anatolia | 4064957 | 14.7 | 15.3 | 15.8 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 16.3 | 16.4 | 16.7 | 17.6 |
| West Black Sea | 4688432 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 12.2 | 12.7 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 13.6 | 14.2 |
| East Black Sea | 2719113 | 11.9 | 12.3 | 12.5 | 12.8 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 13.1 | 13.6 | 14.1 |
| Northeast Anatolia | 2211054 | 20.5 | 21.1 | 21.6 | 22.6 | 22.4 | 22.8 | 22.9 | 23.4 | 23.1 |
| Central East Anatolia | 3929719 | 21.0 | 21.2 | 21.9 | 22.9 | 22.6 | 22.5 | 22.9 | 23.6 | 23.9 |
| Southeast Anatolia | 8847980 | 26.4 | 26.6 | 27.7 | 28.7 | 27.6 | 28.0 | 27.7 | 28.2 | 28.3 |
| Region | Population | Death Rate | Death Rate | Death Rate | Death Rate | Death Rate | Death Rate | Death Rate | Death Rate | Death Rate |
| Turkey | 82003882 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| İstanbul | 15067724 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.2 |
| West Marmara | 3569552 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.3 |
| Aegean | 10514200 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 6.0 |
| East Marmara | 7968135 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.6 |
| West Anatolia | 7961507 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| Mediterranean | 10461409 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Central Anatolia | 4064957 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| West Black Sea | 4688432 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 7.0 |
| East Black Sea | 2719113 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.2 | 6.4 |
| Northeast Anatolia | 2211054 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| Central East Anatolia | 3929719 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| Southeast Anatolia | 8847980 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
Absolute Births and Deaths by Region and Year
| Region | Population | Births | Births | Births | Births | Births | Births | Births | Births | Births |
| Turkey | 82003882 | 1291055 | 1311895 | 1334465 | 1349467 | 1296762 | 1294605 | 1258125 | 1261169 | 1266751 |
| İstanbul | 15067724 | 231576 | 239206 | 242480 | 242118 | 229274 | 226594 | 213441 | 213821 | 210441 |
| West Marmara | 3569552 | 40759 | 40418 | 40347 | 40098 | 38793 | 38517 | 37058 | 36284 | 36400 |
| Aegean | 10514200 | 132002 | 133771 | 136983 | 137287 | 132243 | 133419 | 127833 | 128112 | 129927 |
| East Marmara | 7968135 | 112891 | 113324 | 112486 | 111021 | 105718 | 105203 | 99704 | 100386 | 100928 |
| West Anatolia | 7961507 | 114331 | 116087 | 117491 | 117294 | 112541 | 111279 | 108026 | 106921 | 107734 |
| Mediterranean | 10461409 | 165499 | 170964 | 174530 | 177045 | 170578 | 169985 | 163817 | 166123 | 167506 |
| Central Anatolia | 4064957 | 58227 | 60035 | 61357 | 63332 | 61597 | 62634 | 62989 | 64216 | 67174 |
| West Black Sea | 4688432 | 52519 | 53598 | 54935 | 57043 | 57337 | 58377 | 58511 | 61393 | 63972 |
| East Black Sea | 2719113 | 31285 | 31966 | 32087 | 32781 | 32541 | 32774 | 32836 | 34272 | 35565 |
| Northeast Anatolia | 2211054 | 44977 | 46489 | 47642 | 49948 | 49576 | 50781 | 50779 | 51578 | 50778 |
| Central East Anatolia | 3929719 | 80553 | 81031 | 83524 | 86911 | 84929 | 84018 | 84344 | 86055 | 86812 |
| Southeast Anatolia | 8847980 | 226436 | 225006 | 230603 | 234589 | 221635 | 221024 | 213474 | 212008 | 209514 |
| Region | Population | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths |
| Turkey | 82003882 | 425781 | 422726 | 405365 | 391091 | 372920 | 376520 | 375367 | 365707 |
| İstanbul | 15067724 | 63273 | 62577 | 60077 | 58009 | 54766 | 54696 | 53109 | 52775 |
| West Marmara | 3569552 | 27212 | 26415 | 26144 | 24864 | 23228 | 23496 | 23161 | 23001 |
| Aegean | 10514200 | 68424 | 67691 | 64837 | 61126 | 57647 | 60234 | 59594 | 56627 |
| East Marmara | 7968135 | 44210 | 43624 | 41984 | 40007 | 38282 | 38220 | 38065 | 37500 |
| West Anatolia | 7961507 | 38873 | 37768 | 35810 | 34589 | 33217 | 33369 | 33076 | 32251 |
| Mediterranean | 10461409 | 50471 | 50227 | 47399 | 45439 | 43939 | 43404 | 42850 | 41777 |
| Central Anatolia | 4064957 | 23989 | 23913 | 23082 | 22379 | 21236 | 21049 | 21836 | 21272 |
| West Black Sea | 4688432 | 34718 | 34345 | 33352 | 32772 | 31007 | 31476 | 31619 | 30511 |
| East Black Sea | 2719113 | 19163 | 18326 | 17667 | 17292 | 15991 | 16504 | 16241 | 15553 |
| Northeast Anatolia | 2211054 | 10854 | 10994 | 11001 | 10787 | 10654 | 11052 | 11799 | 10879 |
| Central East Anatolia | 3929719 | 15975 | 16068 | 15652 | 15441 | 15410 | 15419 | 16358 | 15936 |
| Southeast Anatolia | 8847980 | 28619 | 30778 | 28360 | 28386 | 27543 | 27601 | 27659 | 27625 |
Natural Increase by Region and Year
| Region | Population | Natural Increase | Natural Increase | Natural Increase | Natural Increase | Natural Increase | Natural Increase | Natural Increase | Natural Increase |
| Turkey | 82003882 | 865,274/10.8 | 887,636/11.2 | 928,127/11.8 | 954,277/12.3 | 918,531/12.1 | 914,387/12.2 | 871,158/11.7 | 894,687/12.2 |
| İstanbul | 15067724 | 168,303/11.3 | 176,629/12.0 | 182,403/12.6 | 184,109/12.9 | 174,508/12.5 | 171,898/12.5 | 160,332/11.8 | 161,046/12.3 |
| West Marmara | 3569552 | 13,547/3.9 | 14,003/4.1 | 14,203/4.2 | 15,234/4.6 | 15,565/4.8 | 15,021/4.6 | 13,897/4.3 | 13,283/4.2 |
| Aegean | 10514200 | 63,578/6.2 | 66,080/6.5 | 72,146/7.2 | 76,161/7.7 | 74,596/7.5 | 73,185/7.5 | 68,239/7.0 | 71,485/7.4 |
| East Marmara | 7968135 | 68,681/8.9 | 69,700/9.2 | 70,502/9.5 | 71,014/9.8 | 67,436/9.4 | 66,983/9.5 | 61,639/9.0 | 62,886/9.3 |
| West Anatolia | 7961507 | 75,458/9.6 | 78,319/10.2 | 81,681/10.8 | 82,705/11.1 | 79,324/10.9 | 77,910/10.9 | 74,950/10.5 | 74,670/10.8 |
| Mediterranean | 10461409 | 115,028/11.3 | 120,737/11.9 | 127,131/12.7 | 131,606/13.4 | 126,639/13.1 | 126,581/13.3 | 120,967/12.8 | 124,346/13.3 |
| Central Anatolia | 4064957 | 34,238/8.6 | 36,122/9.2 | 38,275/9.9 | 40,953/10.5 | 40,361/10.4 | 41,585/10.8 | 41,153/10.7 | 42,944/11.2 |
| West Black Sea | 4688432 | 17,801/3.9 | 19,253/4.2 | 21,583/4.8 | 24,271/5.4 | 26,330/5.9 | 26,901/6.0 | 26,892/6.0 | 30,882/6.8 |
| East Black Sea | 2719113 | 12,122/4.6 | 13,640/5.3 | 14,420/5.6 | 15,489/6.0 | 16,550/6.5 | 16,270/6.5 | 16,595/6.6 | 18,719/7.4 |
| Northeast Anatolia | 2211054 | 34,123/15.6 | 35,495/16.1 | 36,641/16.6 | 39,161/17.7 | 38,922/17.6 | 39,729/17.8 | 38,980/17.5 | 40,699/18.0 |
| Central East Anatolia | 3929719 | 64,578/16.8 | 64,963/17.0 | 67,872/17.8 | 71,470/18.8 | 69,519/18.5 | 68,599/18.4 | 67,986/18.4 | 70,119/19.2 |
| Southeast Anatolia | 8847980 | 197,817/23.1 | 194,228/23.0 | 202,243/24.3 | 206,203/25.2 | 194,092/24.2 | 193,423/24.5 | 185,815/24.1 | 184,383/24.5 |
Historical Fertility Rate
Fertility Rate and CBR :| Year | CBR | TFR | CBR | TFR | CBR | TFR |
| 1993 | 22,9 | 2,7 | 21,7 | 2,4 | 24,0 | 3,1 |
| 1998 | 23,4 | 2,61 | 22,8 | 2,39 | 24,7 | 3,08 |
Total fertility rate by region in Turkey by Turkish General Census and Turkish population and health research.
| South-East | East | Mediterranean | Black Sea | Central | Aegean | Marmara | Turkey | |
| TNSA 1978 | 6,31 | 3,77 | 4,99 | 4,26 | 2,89 | 4,33 | ||
| GNS 1980 | 4,61 | 4,64 | 3,50 | 3,65 | 3,76 | 2,81 | 2,73 | 3,41 |
| TNSA 1993 | 4,40 | 2,37 | 3,15 | 2,44 | 2,03 | 2,65 | ||
| TNSA 1998 | 4,19 | 2,55 | 2,68 | 2,56 | 2,03 | 2,61 | ||
| GNS 2000 | 4,31 | 3,72 | 2,43 | 2,28 | 2,29 | 1,96 | 1,88 | 2,53 |
| TNSA 2003 | 3,65 | 2,30 | 1,94 | 1,86 | 1,88 | 2,23 | ||
| GNS rural 2000 | 4,80 | 4,52 | 2,52 | 2,56 | 2,91 | 2,23 | 2,03 | 2,87 |
| GNS urban 2000 | 4,05 | 3,08 | 2,38 | 2,01 | 2,05 | 1,80 | 1,85 | 2,20 |
| GNS metropolitan 2000 | 3,81 | 2,34 | 2,41 | 1,87 | 1,89 | 1,60 | 1,83 | 2,03 |
Total fertility rate (TFR) by province and year
Figures from Turkish Statistical Institute :| Province | Population | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR | TFR |
| Turkey | 82,003,882 | 2.12 | 2.08 | 2.05 | 2.11 | 2.10 | 2.18 | 2.15 | 2.11 | 2.07 | 1.99 | 1.88 | ||
| İstanbul | 15,067,724 | 1.77 | 1.77 | 1.72 | 1.80 | 1.81 | 1.89 | 1.88 | 1.85 | 1.79 | 1.72 | 1.59 | ||
| West Marmara | 3,569,552 | 1.54 | 1.54 | 1.57 | 1.63 | 1.64 | 1.69 | 1.69 | 1.68 | 1.69 | 1.66 | 1.56 | ||
| Tekirdağ | 1,029,927 | 1.83 | 1.69 | 1.67 | 1.72 | 1.79 | 1.82 | 1.88 | 1.94 | 1.93 | 1.93 | 1.92 | 1.77 | |
| Edirne | 411,528 | 2.41 | 1.66 | 1.43 | 1.39 | 1.45 | 1.51 | 1.49 | 1.46 | 1.54 | 1.48 | 1.46 | 1.43 | 1.34 |
| Kırklareli | 360,860 | 1.70 | 1.38 | 1.39 | 1.35 | 1.45 | 1.45 | 1.56 | 1.55 | 1.48 | 1.53 | 1.48 | 1.43 | |
| Balıkesir | 1,226,575 | 1.95 | 1.53 | 1.56 | 1.58 | 1.62 | 1.65 | 1.71 | 1.65 | 1.67 | 1.66 | 1.63 | 1.54 | |
| Çanakkale | 540,662 | 1.68 | 1.50 | 1.44 | 1.53 | 1.58 | 1.52 | 1.57 | 1.55 | 1.56 | 1.57 | 1.56 | 1.47 | |
| Aegean | 10,514,200 | 1.69 | 1.66 | 1.66 | 1.74 | 1.73 | 1.80 | 1.80 | 1.76 | 1.74 | 1.67 | 1.57 | ||
| İzmir | 4,320,519 | 1.75 | 1.57 | 1.54 | 1.56 | 1.66 | 1.64 | 1.72 | 1.72 | 1.68 | 1.65 | 1.59 | 1.48 | |
| Aydın | 1,097,746 | 2.12 | 1.74 | 1.71 | 1.69 | 1.82 | 1.79 | 1.84 | 1.85 | 1.82 | 1.87 | 1.78 | 1.67 | |
| Denizli | 1,027,782 | 2.19 | 1.73 | 1.66 | 1.70 | 1.74 | 1.76 | 1.87 | 1.86 | 1.80 | 1.79 | 1.71 | 1.61 | |
| Muğla | 967,487 | 1.94 | 1.71 | 1.70 | 1.67 | 1.76 | 1.73 | 1.76 | 1.77 | 1.73 | 1.69 | 1.64 | 1.54 | |
| Manisa | 1,429,643 | 2.14 | 1.78 | 1.77 | 1.79 | 1.86 | 1.89 | 1.94 | 1.93 | 1.91 | 1.86 | 1.83 | 1.75 | |
| Afyonkarahisar | 725,568 | 3.74 | 2.82 | 2.06 | 2.01 | 2.01 | 2.03 | 1.98 | 2.09 | 2.08 | 2.00 | 1.95 | 1.87 | 1.82 |
| Kütahya | 577,941 | 2.19 | 1.55 | 1.60 | 1.53 | 1.55 | 1.52 | 1.58 | 1.59 | 1.52 | 1.50 | 1.43 | 1.34 | |
| Uşak | 367,514 | 2.18 | 1.64 | 1.67 | 1.64 | 1.74 | 1.76 | 1.79 | 1.74 | 1.68 | 1.69 | 1.59 | 1.50 | |
| East Marmara | 7,968,135 | 1.77 | 1.74 | 1.71 | 1.80 | 1.80 | 1.88 | 1.89 | 1.89 | 1.86 | 1.83 | 1.71 | ||
| Bursa | 2,994,521 | 1.98 | 1.78 | 1.77 | 1.73 | 1.85 | 1.85 | 1.90 | 1.92 | 1.91 | 1.88 | 1.86 | 1.74 | |
| Eskişehir | 871,187 | 1.74 | 1.40 | 1.38 | 1.38 | 1.46 | 1.48 | 1.57 | 1.56 | 1.54 | 1.54 | 1.49 | 1.40 | |
| Bilecik | 223,448 | 1.98 | 1.71 | 1.67 | 1.63 | 1.75 | 1.77 | 1.78 | 1.72 | 1.74 | 1.70 | 1.69 | 1.62 | |
| Kocaeli | 1,906,391 | 3.23 | 2.13 | 1.90 | 1.87 | 1.82 | 1.91 | 1.91 | 2.04 | 2.07 | 2.04 | 2.01 | 1.96 | 1.85 |
| Sakarya | 1,010,700 | 2,23 | 1.87 | 1.82 | 1.78 | 1.85 | 1.83 | 1.91 | 1.93 | 1.95 | 1.94 | 1.94 | 1.80 | |
| Düzce | 387,844 | 2.18 | 1.87 | 1.83 | 1.82 | 1.81 | 1.87 | 1.90 | 1.86 | 1.90 | 1.83 | 1.77 | 1.71 | |
| Bolu | 311,810 | 1.93 | 1.60 | 1.57 | 1.64 | 1.59 | 1.64 | 1.66 | 1.60 | 1.62 | 1.56 | 1.52 | 1.46 | |
| Yalova | 262,234 | 1.93 | 1.78 | 1.64 | 1.62 | 1.72 | 1.69 | 1.81 | 1.78 | 1.88 | 1.82 | 1.75 | 1.65 | |
| West Anatolia | 7,961,507 | 1.83 | 1.80 | 1.79 | 1.83 | 1.85 | 1.91 | 1.90 | 1.86 | 1.83 | 1.77 | 1.65 | ||
| Ankara | 5,503,985 | 1.90 | 1.68 | 1.66 | 1.65 | 1.68 | 1.71 | 1.77 | 1.77 | 1.73 | 1.71 | 1.65 | 1.53 | |
| Konya | 2,205,609 | 3.00 | 2.14 | 2.12 | 2.13 | 2.18 | 2.18 | 2.25 | 2.20 | 2.18 | 2.11 | 2.06 | 1.93 | |
| Karaman | 251,913 | 2.77 | 2.15 | 1.95 | 1.98 | 2.02 | 2.09 | 2.04 | 2.12 | 2.09 | 2.06 | 1.94 | 1.84 | |
| Mediterranean | 10,461,409 | 2.20 | 2.18 | 2.14 | 2.23 | 2.24 | 2.32 | 2.28 | 2.24 | 2.16 | 2.07 | 1.94 | ||
| Antalya | 2,426,356 | 1.93 | 1.91 | 1.87 | 1.84 | 1.93 | 1.91 | 1.96 | 1.98 | 1.93 | 1.82 | 1.74 | 1.62 | |
| Isparta | 441,412 | 2.04 | 1.76 | 1.66 | 1.66 | 1.72 | 1.70 | 1.75 | 1.72 | 1.72 | 1.76 | 1.62 | 1.54 | |
| Burdur | 269,926 | 2.12 | 1.74 | 1.73 | 1.68 | 1.66 | 1.68 | 1.79 | 1.79 | 1.74 | 1.66 | 1.58 | 1.50 | |
| Adana | 2,220,125 | 2.68 | 2.18 | 2.14 | 2.12 | 2.21 | 2.25 | 2.34 | 2.32 | 2.26 | 2.22 | 2.12 | 2.01 | |
| Mersin | 1,814,468 | 2.38 | 2.03 | 2.04 | 2.00 | 2.12 | 2.11 | 2.20 | 2.17 | 2.14 | 2.07 | 2.02 | 1.86 | |
| Hatay | 1,609,856 | 2.97 | 2.57 | 2.54 | 2.51 | 2.63 | 2.62 | 2.82 | 2.74 | 2.69 | 2.58 | 2.49 | 2.37 | |
| Kahramanmaraş | 1,144,851 | 3.54 | 2.70 | 2.68 | 2.66 | 2.68 | 2.74 | 2.74 | 2.64 | 2.60 | 2.53 | 2.38 | 2.22 | |
| Osmaniye | 534,415 | 2.95 | 2.55 | 2.57 | 2.40 | 2.51 | 2.51 | 2.59 | 2.50 | 2.43 | 2.39 | 2.26 | 2.21 | |
| Central Anatolia | 4,064,957 | 2.16 | 2.08 | 2.06 | 2.07 | 2.06 | 2.13 | 2.08 | 2.03 | 1.96 | 1.87 | 1.78 | ||
| Kırıkkale | 286,602 | 2.39 | 1.77 | 1.70 | 1.60 | 1.59 | 1.65 | 1.69 | 1.72 | 1.69 | 1.68 | 1.59 | 1.53 | |
| Aksaray | 412,172 | 2.85 | 2.42 | 2.35 | 2.34 | 2.30 | 2.29 | 2.35 | 2.30 | 2.21 | 2.14 | 2.10 | 1.97 | |
| Niğde | 364,707 | 2.98 | 2.40 | 2.28 | 2.23 | 2.32 | 2.25 | 2.33 | 2.19 | 2.20 | 2.08 | 1.99 | 1.92 | |
| Nevşehir | 298,339 | 2.55 | 2.10 | 1.98 | 1.97 | 1.98 | 1.94 | 2.10 | 1.98 | 1.93 | 1.85 | 1.78 | 1.66 | |
| Kırşehir | 241,868 | 2.40 | 1.72 | 1.69 | 1.69 | 1.75 | 1.78 | 1.86 | 1.82 | 1.78 | 1.74 | 1.72 | 1.64 | |
| Kayseri | 1,389,680 | 2.62 | 2.21 | 2.14 | 2.16 | 2.18 | 2.17 | 2.25 | 2.19 | 2.13 | 2.02 | 1.96 | 1.85 | |
| Sivas | 646,608 | 2.76 | 2.07 | 2.02 | 1.99 | 1.99 | 1.94 | 1.99 | 1.98 | 1.95 | 1.92 | 1.77 | 1.71 | |
| Yozgat | 424,981 | 2.84 | 2.25 | 2.07 | 2.04 | 2.03 | 1.97 | 2.06 | 2.06 | 1.98 | 1.92 | 1.78 | 1.71 | |
| West Black Sea | 4,688,432 | 1.84 | 1.79 | 1.74 | 1.77 | 1.76 | 1.77 | 1.73 | 1.69 | 1.66 | 1.63 | 1.56 | ||
| Zonguldak | 599,698 | 1.93 | 1.71 | 1.65 | 1.58 | 1.62 | 1.59 | 1.60 | 1.56 | 1.50 | 1.48 | 1.43 | 1.38 | |
| Karabük | 248,014 | 1.99 | 1.67 | 1.60 | 1.62 | 1.54 | 1.59 | 1.56 | 1.57 | 1.46 | 1.50 | 1.49 | 1.41 | |
| Bartın | 198,999 | 2.11 | 1.68 | 1.67 | 1.61 | 1.50 | 1.57 | 1.69 | 1.58 | 1.54 | 1.45 | 1.47 | 1.42 | |
| Kastamonu | 383,373 | 3.44 | 2.18 | 1.70 | 1.69 | 1.64 | 1.69 | 1.68 | 1.59 | 1.63 | 1.59 | 1.50 | 1.54 | 1.47 |
| Çankırı | 216,262 | 2.27 | 1.97 | 1.93 | 1.91 | 1.84 | 1.78 | 1.86 | 1.78 | 1.84 | 1.75 | 1.68 | 1.68 | |
| Sinop | 219,733 | 4.35 | 2.48 | 1.91 | 1.81 | 1.77 | 1.84 | 1.75 | 1.79 | 1.72 | 1.70 | 1.70 | 1.61 | 1.60 |
| Samsun | 1,335,716 | 2.55 | 1.87 | 1.81 | 1.77 | 1.83 | 1.83 | 1.85 | 1.82 | 1.79 | 1.78 | 1.74 | 1.64 | |
| Tokat | 612,646 | 3.06 | 1.95 | 1.92 | 1.83 | 1.79 | 1.82 | 1.82 | 1.74 | 1.70 | 1.66 | 1.63 | 1.60 | |
| Çorum | 536,483 | 2.66 | 1.93 | 1.90 | 1.86 | 1.96 | 1.89 | 1.97 | 1.85 | 1.86 | 1.79 | 1.73 | 1.68 | |
| Amasya | 337,508 | 2.34 | 1.80 | 1.75 | 1.71 | 1.75 | 1.78 | 1.75 | 1.80 | 1.70 | 1.71 | 1.66 | 1.60 | |
| East Black Sea | 2,719,113 | 1.86 | 1.81 | 1.77 | 1.78 | 1.77 | 1.80 | 1.78 | 1.76 | 1.71 | 1.68 | 1.60 | ||
| Trabzon | 807,903 | 2.10 | 1.87 | 1.82 | 1.78 | 1.80 | 1.79 | 1.84 | 1.86 | 1.85 | 1.82 | 1.79 | 1.67 | |
| Ordu | 771,932 | 2.81 | 1.94 | 1.89 | 1.84 | 1.86 | 1.85 | 1.89 | 1.83 | 1.83 | 1.80 | 1.71 | 1.66 | |
| Giresun | 453,912 | 2.31 | 1.74 | 1.74 | 1.65 | 1.66 | 1.64 | 1.65 | 1.64 | 1.56 | 1.55 | 1.54 | 1.48 | |
| Rize | 348,608 | 2.01 | 1.80 | 1.76 | 1.75 | 1.73 | 1.80 | 1.79 | 1.79 | 1.79 | 1.75 | 1.76 | 1.65 | |
| Artvin | 174,010 | 2.24 | 1.73 | 1.72 | 1.67 | 1.78 | 1.73 | 1.78 | 1.74 | 1.77 | 1.72 | 1.64 | 1.60 | |
| Gümüşhane | 162,748 | 2.92 | 2.09 | 1.88 | 1.89 | 1.84 | 1.84 | 1.84 | 1.72 | 1.60 | 1.37 | 1.32 | 1.33 | |
| Northeast Anatolia | 2,211,054 | 2.91 | 2.97 | 2.90 | 2.90 | 2.85 | 2.90 | 2.79 | 2.71 | 2.62 | 2.43 | 2.35 | ||
| Erzurum | 767,848 | 3.51 | 2.51 | 2.49 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.49 | 2.60 | 2.51 | 2.45 | 2.40 | 2.24 | 2.15 | |
| Erzincan | 236,034 | 2.54 | 1.82 | 1.82 | 1.91 | 1.88 | 1.89 | 1.82 | 1.82 | 1.89 | 1.72 | 1.63 | 1.64 | |
| Bayburt | 82,274 | 3.29 | 2.38 | 2.31 | 2.16 | 2.30 | 2.13 | 2.18 | 2.09 | 1.95 | 1.82 | 1.83 | 1.70 | |
| Ağrı | 539,657 | 5.49 | 4.22 | 4.38 | 4.13 | 4.11 | 4.00 | 4.03 | 3.83 | 3.71 | 3.60 | 3.26 | 3.16 | |
| Kars | 288,878 | 3.76 | 2.90 | 3.05 | 2.88 | 2.92 | 2.74 | 2.75 | 2.64 | 2.58 | 2.53 | 2.34 | 2.24 | |
| Iğdır | 197,456 | 4.17 | 3.06 | 3.16 | 3.12 | 3.10 | 3.21 | 3.19 | 3.05 | 2.97 | 2.80 | 2.68 | 2.55 | |
| Ardahan | 98,907 | 2.95 | 2.35 | 2.25 | 2.25 | 2.21 | 2.11 | 2.24 | 2.17 | 2.00 | 2.05 | 1.91 | 1.87 | |
| Central East Anatolia | 3,929,719 | 3.00 | 2.95 | 2.85 | 2.82 | 2.82 | 2.87 | 2.75 | 2.66 | 2.63 | 2.51 | 2.42 | ||
| Malatya | 797,036 | 3.66 | 2.56 | 2.08 | 2.06 | 1.99 | 1.99 | 1.96 | 2.05 | 2.01 | 1.98 | 1.99 | 1.90 | 1.80 |
| Elazığ | 595,638 | 2.52 | 2.02 | 1.98 | 1.98 | 1.97 | 1.93 | 2.03 | 1.98 | 1.95 | 1.94 | 1.85 | 1.78 | |
| Bingöl | 281,205 | 3.56 | 2.56 | 2.55 | 2.52 | 2.49 | 2.49 | 2.62 | 2.42 | 2.43 | 2.37 | 2.36 | 2.26 | |
| Tunceli | 88,198 | 4.87 | 1.90 | 1.56 | 1.47 | 1.50 | 1.53 | 1.55 | 1.62 | 1.68 | 1.57 | 1.56 | 1.63 | 1.69 |
| Van | 1,123,784 | 6.00 | 3.93 | 3.84 | 3.66 | 3.58 | 3.64 | 3.54 | 3.37 | 3.19 | 3.14 | 2.95 | 2.84 | |
| Muş | 407,992 | 4.18 | 3.93 | 3.94 | 3.66 | 3.65 | 3.59 | 3.71 | 3.48 | 3.36 | 3.39 | 3.23 | 3.15 | |
| Bitlis | 349,396 | 6.01 | 5.03 | 3.80 | 3.71 | 3.52 | 3.49 | 3.44 | 3.47 | 3.40 | 3.29 | 3.22 | 3.06 | 2.88 |
| Hakkâri | 286,470 | 6.69 | 3.35 | 3.18 | 3.14 | 2.99 | 3.01 | 3.02 | 2.76 | 2.59 | 2.56 | 2.40 | 2.32 | |
| Southeast Anatolia | 8,847,980 | 3.59 | 3.57 | 3.48 | 3.53 | 3.48 | 3.62 | 3.51 | 3.37 | 3.34 | 3.21 | 3.01 | ||
| Gaziantep | 2,028,563 | 3.83 | 3.15 | 3.07 | 3.04 | 3.15 | 3.16 | 3.28 | 3.18 | 3.05 | 2.91 | 2.83 | 2.61 | |
| Adıyaman | 624,513 | 3.66 | 2.76 | 2.79 | 2.77 | 2.79 | 2.75 | 2.90 | 2.87 | 2.77 | 2.78 | 2.68 | 2.55 | |
| Kilis | 142,541 | 3.54 | 2.93 | 3.01 | 2.83 | 2.99 | 2.96 | 3.11 | 3.01 | 2.87 | 2.81 | 2.74 | 2.54 | |
| Şanlıurfa | 2,035,809 | 4.83 | 4.57 | 4.58 | 4.46 | 4.47 | 4.41 | 4.57 | 4.41 | 4.34 | 4.29 | 4.13 | 3.89 | |
| Diyarbakır | 1,732,396 | 4.51 | 3.23 | 3.24 | 3.19 | 3.23 | 3.16 | 3.30 | 3.22 | 3.13 | 3.12 | 2.96 | 2.78 | |
| Mardin | 829,195 | 4.98 | 3.46 | 3.53 | 3.35 | 3.46 | 3.33 | 3.54 | 3.45 | 3.24 | 3.27 | 3.14 | 2.99 | |
| Batman | 599,103 | 5.27 | 3.70 | 3.64 | 3.43 | 3.42 | 3.34 | 3.41 | 3.25 | 3.10 | 3.07 | 2.90 | 2.71 | |
| Şırnak | 524,190 | 7.06 | 4.69 | 4.51 | 4.26 | 4.21 | 4.18 | 4.25 | 4.07 | 3.48 | 3.72 | 3.60 | 3.37 | |
| Siirt | 331,670 | 6.05 | 4.23 | 4.12 | 3.96 | 3.85 | 3.70 | 3.89 | 3.56 | 3.47 | 3.32 | 3.16 | 2.92 |
Structure of the population
Structure of the population :| Age Group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| Total | 39,511,191 | 39,229,862 | 78,741,053 | 100 |
| 0–4 | 3,275,520 | 3,105,996 | 6,381,516 | 8.10 |
| 5–9 | 3,252,811 | 3,084,908 | 6,337,719 | 8.05 |
| 10–14 | 3,166,860 | 3,000,125 | 6,166,985 | 7.83 |
| 15–19 | 3,382,363 | 3,203,137 | 6,585,500 | 8.36 |
| 20–24 | 3,224,168 | 3,089,999 | 6,314,167 | 8.02 |
| 25–29 | 3,178,350 | 3,084,899 | 6,263,249 | 7.95 |
| 30–34 | 3,252,171 | 3,175,879 | 6,428,150 | 8.16 |
| 35–39 | 3,134,041 | 3,069,282 | 6,203,323 | 7.88 |
| 40–44 | 2,788,425 | 2,764,155 | 5,552,580 | 7.05 |
| 45–49 | 2,337,087 | 2,252,992 | 4,590,079 | 5.83 |
| 50–54 | 2,317,534 | 2,315,375 | 4,632,909 | 5.88 |
| 55–59 | 1,843,354 | 1,837,816 | 3,681,170 | 4.68 |
| 60–64 | 1,515,065 | 1,593,402 | 3,108,467 | 3.95 |
| 65–69 | 1,100,734 | 1,255,651 | 2,356,385 | 2.99 |
| 70–74 | 737,892 | 888,292 | 1,626,184 | 2.07 |
| 75–79 | 501,411 | 682,335 | 1,183,746 | 1.50 |
| 80–84 | 339,904 | 470,584 | 810,488 | 1.03 |
| 85–89 | 128,879 | 261,571 | 390,450 | 0.50 |
| 90+ | 34,622 | 93,364 | 127,986 | 0.16 |
| Age group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| 0–14 | 9,695,191 | 9,191,029 | 18,886,220 | 23.99 |
| 15–64 | 26,972,558 | 26,387,036 | 53,359,594 | 67.77 |
| 65+ | 2,843,442 | 3,651,797 | 6,495,239 | 8.25 |
Structure of the population :
| Age Group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| Total | 40,043,650 | 39,771,221 | 79,814,871 | 100 |
| 0–4 | 3,314,542 | 3,144,753 | 6,459,295 | 8.09 |
| 5–9 | 3,253,345 | 3,084,099 | 6,337,444 | 7.94 |
| 10–14 | 3,147,133 | 2,981,910 | 6,129,043 | 7.68 |
| 15–19 | 3,400,443 | 3,222,876 | 6,623,319 | 8.30 |
| 20–24 | 3,247,764 | 3,117,959 | 6,365,723 | 7.98 |
| 25–29 | 3,169,360 | 3,076,681 | 6,246,041 | 7.83 |
| 30–34 | 3,196,645 | 3,113,766 | 6,310,411 | 7.91 |
| 35–39 | 3,275,175 | 3,219,158 | 6,494,333 | 8.14 |
| 40–44 | 2,833,655 | 2,800,662 | 5,634,317 | 7.06 |
| 45–49 | 2,412,875 | 2,335,639 | 4,748,514 | 5.95 |
| 50–54 | 2,381,640 | 2,374,604 | 4,756,244 | 5.96 |
| 55-59 | 1,855,171 | 1,860,565 | 3,715,736 | 4.66 |
| 60–64 | 1,636,510 | 1,706,438 | 3,342,948 | 4.19 |
| 65–69 | 1,132,464 | 1,280,073 | 2,412,537 | 3.02 |
| 70–74 | 763,121 | 917,371 | 1,680,492 | 2.11 |
| 75–79 | 512,607 | 689,443 | 1,202,050 | 1.51 |
| 80–84 | 336,206 | 473,119 | 809,325 | 1.01 |
| 85–89 | 136,238 | 265,520 | 401,758 | 0.50 |
| 90+ | 38,756 | 106,585 | 145,341 | 0.18 |
| Age group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| 0–14 | 9,715,020 | 9,210,762 | 18,925,782 | 23.71 |
| 15–64 | 27,409,238 | 26,828,348 | 54,237,586 | 67.95 |
| 65+ | 2,919,392 | 3,732,111 | 6,651,503 | 8.33 |
Structure of the population :
| Age Group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| Total | 40 535 135 | 40 275 390 | 80 810 525 | 100 |
| 0–4 | 3 326 591 | 3 155 258 | 6 481 849 | 8.02 |
| 5–9 | 3 254 177 | 3 086 592 | 6 340 769 | 7.85 |
| 10–14 | 3 188 333 | 3 022 537 | 6 210 870 | 7.69 |
| 15–19 | 3 351 043 | 3 175 544 | 6 526 587 | 8.08 |
| 20–24 | 3 294 336 | 3 162 174 | 6 456 510 | 7.99 |
| 25–29 | 3 163 889 | 3 067 653 | 6 231 542 | 7.71 |
| 30–34 | 3 189 075 | 3 107 849 | 6 296 924 | 7.79 |
| 35–39 | 3 308 413 | 3 252 283 | 6 560 696 | 8.12 |
| 40–44 | 2 891 799 | 2 849 020 | 5 740 819 | 7.10 |
| 45–49 | 2 556 364 | 2 498 790 | 5 055 154 | 6.26 |
| 50–54 | 2 349 139 | 2 326 316 | 4 675 455 | 5.79 |
| 55-59 | 1 977 328 | 1 989 399 | 3 966 727 | 4.91 |
| 60–64 | 1 651 215 | 1 720 023 | 3 371 238 | 4.17 |
| 65–69 | 1 188 986 | 1 322 918 | 2 511 904 | 3.11 |
| 70–74 | 784 614 | 952 653 | 1 737 267 | 2.15 |
| 75–79 | 533 757 | 715 428 | 1 249 185 | 1.55 |
| 80–84 | 330 240 | 471 436 | 801 676 | 0.99 |
| 85–89 | 152 317 | 282 516 | 434 833 | 0.54 |
| 90+ | 43 519 | 117 001 | 160 520 | 0.20 |
| Age group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| 0–14 | 9 769 101 | 9 264 387 | 19 033 488 | 23.55 |
| 15–64 | 27 732 601 | 27 149 051 | 54 881 652 | 67.91 |
| 65+ | 3 033 433 | 3 861 952 | 6 895 385 | 8.53 |
Structure of the population :
| Age Group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| Total | 41 139 980 | 40 863 902 | 82 003 882 | 100 |
| 0–4 | 3 327 780 | 3 157 206 | 6 484 986 | 7.91% |
| 5–9 | 3 264 608 | 3 094 412 | 6 358 920 | 7.75% |
| 10–14 | 3 254 277 | 3 086 146 | 6 340 423 | 7.73% |
| 15–19 | 3 299 449 | 3 124 818 | 6 424 267 | 7.83% |
| 20–24 | 3 347 297 | 3 199 832 | 6 547 129 | 7.98% |
| 25–29 | 3 190 023 | 3 086 446 | 6 276 469 | 7.65% |
| 30–34 | 3 205 205 | 3 127 948 | 6 333 153 | 7.72% |
| 35–39 | 3 316 603 | 3 259 469 | 6 576 072 | 8.02% |
| 40–44 | 2 953 329 | 2 892 697 | 5 846 026 | 7.13% |
| 45–49 | 2 670 183 | 2 640 524 | 5 310 707 | 6.48% |
| 50–54 | 2 372 182 | 2 329 142 | 4 701 324 | 5.73% |
| 55-59 | 2 076 882 | 2 095 459 | 4 172 341 | 5.09% |
| 60–64 | 1 692 130 | 1 753 731 | 3 445 861 | 4.20% |
| 65–69 | 1 245 979 | 1 366 228 | 2 612 207 | 3.19% |
| 70–74 | 835 353 | 1 021 569 | 1 856 922 | 2.26% |
| 75–79 | 539 825 | 722 725 | 1 262 550 | 1.54% |
| 80–84 | 318 882 | 474 854 | 793 736 | 0.97% |
| 85–89 | 182 957 | 302 957 | 485 914 | 0.59% |
| 90+ | 47 136 | 127 739 | 174 875 | 0.21% |
| Age group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| 0–14 | 9 846 565 | 9 337 764 | 19 184 329 | 23.39% |
| 15–64 | 28 123 283 | 27 510 066 | 55 633 349 | 67.84% |
| 65+ | 3 170 132 | 4 016 072 | 7 186 204 | 8.76% |
Structure of the population :
| Age Group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| Total | 41 721 136 | 41 433 861 | 83 154 997 | 100 |
| 0-4 | 3 254 719 | 3 090 417 | 6 345 136 | 100 |
| 5-9 | 3 316 621 | 3 144 418 | 6 461 039 | 7.77% |
| 10-14 | 3 288 207 | 3 117 963 | 6 406 170 | 7.70% |
| 15–19 | 3 254 891 | 3 076 703 | 6 331 594 | 7.61% |
| 20–24 | 3 392 374 | 3 231 704 | 6 624 078 | 7.97% |
| 25–29 | 3 240 657 | 3 126 654 | 6 367 311 | 7.66% |
| 30–34 | 3 221 381 | 3 141 636 | 6 363 017 | 7.65% |
| 35–39 | 3 324 759 | 3 260 084 | 6 584 843 | 7.92% |
| 40–44 | 3 016 898 | 2 950 486 | 5 967 384 | 7.18% |
| 45–49 | 2 772 838 | 2 760 721 | 5 533 559 | 6.65% |
| 50–54 | 2 367 577 | 2 307 796 | 4 675 373 | 5.62% |
| 55-59 | 2 178 454 | 2 211 543 | 4 389 997 | 5.28% |
| 60–64 | 1 754 500 | 1 800 269 | 3 554 769 | 4.27% |
| 65–69 | 1 301 371 | 1 421 301 | 2 722 672 | 3.27% |
| 70–74 | 907 850 | 1 109 063 | 2 016 913 | 2.43% |
| 75–79 | 560 695 | 747 604 | 1 308 299 | 1.57% |
| 80–84 | 323 732 | 493 998 | 817 730 | 0.98% |
| 85–89 | 192 938 | 304 472 | 497 410 | 0.60% |
| 90+ | 50 674 | 137 029 | 187 703 | 0.23% |
| Age group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
| 0–14 | 9 859 547 | 9 352 798 | 19 212 345 | 23.10% |
| 15–64 | 28 524 329 | 27 867 596 | 56 391 925 | 67.82% |
| 65+ | 3 337 260 | 4 213 467 | 7 550 727 | 9.08% |
Immigration
is the process by which people migrate to Turkey to reside in the country. After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and following Turkish War of Independence, an exodus by the large portion of Turkish and Muslim peoples from the Balkans, Caucasus, Crimea, and Crete took refuge in present-day Turkey and moulded the country's fundamental features. Trends of immigration towards Turkey continue to this day, although the motives are more varied and are usually in line with the patterns of global immigration movements — Turkey, for example, receives many economic migrants from nearby countries such as Armenia, the Moldova, Georgia, Iran, and Azerbaijan, but also from Central Asia. Turkey's migrant crisis is a period during 2010s characterized by high numbers of people arriving in Turkey.Internal migration
Ethnic groups and languages
No exact data are available concerning the different ethnic groups in Turkey. The last census data according to language date from 1965 and major changes may have occurred since then. However, it is clear that the Turkish are in the majority, while the largest minority groups are Kurds and Arabs. Smaller minorities are the Armenians, Greeks. All ethnic groups are discussed below.| Year | 1914 | 1927 | 1945 | 1965 | 1990 | 2005 |
| Muslims | 12,941 | 13,290 | 18,511 | 31,139 | 56,860 | 71,997 |
| Greeks | 1,549 | 110 | 104 | 76 | 8 | 3 |
| Armenians | 1,204 | 77 | 60 | 64 | 67 | 50 |
| Jews | 128 | 82 | 77 | 38 | 29 | 27 |
| Others | 176 | 71 | 38 | 74 | 50 | 45 |
| Total | 15,997 | 13,630 | 18,790 | 31,391 | 57,005 | 72,120 |
| % non-Muslim | 29.6 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
The word Turk or Turkish also has a wider meaning in a historical context because, at times, especially in the past, it has been used to refer to all Muslim inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire irrespective of their ethnicity.
The question of ethnicity in modern Turkey is a highly debated and difficult issue. Figures published in several different sources prove this difficulty by varying greatly.
It is necessary to take into account all these difficulties and be cautious while evaluating the ethnic groups. A possible list of ethnic groups living in Turkey could be as follows:
- Turkic-speaking peoples: Turks, Azerbaijanis, Tatars, Karachays, Uzbeks, Crimean Tatars and Uyghurs
- Indo-European-speaking peoples: Kurds, Zazas, Bosniaks, Albanians, Pomaks, Ossetians, Armenians, Hamshenis, Goranis and Greeks
- Semitic-speaking peoples: Arabs, Jews and Assyrians/Syriacs
- Caucasian-speaking peoples: Circassians, Georgians, Lazs and Chechens
According to Milliyet, a 2008 report prepared for the National Security Council of Turkey by academics of three Turkish universities in eastern Anatolia suggested that there are approximately 55 million ethnic Turks, 9.6 million Kurds, 3 million Zazas, 2.5 million Circassians, 2 million Bosniaks, 500,000-1.3 million Albanians, 1,000,000 Georgians, 870,000 Arabs, 600,000 Pomaks, 80,000 Laz, 60,000 Armenians, 25,000 Assyrians/Syriacs, 20,000 Jews, and 15,000 Greeks, 500 Yazidis living in Turkey.
Since the immigration to the big cities in the west of Turkey, interethnic marriage has become more common. A recent study estimates that there are 2,708,000 marriages between Turks and Kurds.
Ethnolinguistic estimates in 2014 by Ethnologue and Jacques Leclerc
| People | Speakers | Percentage | Language | Status |
| Anatolian Turks | 53,402,000 | 70.6% | Turkish | 1 |
| Kurmanji Kurds | 8,127,000 | 10.7% | Kurmanji | 3 |
| Turcophones Kurds | 5,881,000 | 7.7% | Turkish | 1 |
| Zaza | 1,155,000 | 1.5% | Zaza | 5 |
| Lebanese Arabs | 1,133,000 | 1.4 % | Levantine Arabic | |
| Kabardians Circassians | 1,062,000 | 1.4 % | Kabardian | 5 |
| Iraqi Arabs | 722,000 | 0.9% | Mesopotamian Arabic | 6a |
| Persians | 618,000 | 0.8% | Farsi | |
| Azerbaijani | 540,000 | 0.7% | Azerbaijani | 5 |
| Romani | 500,000 | 0.7% | Romani, Domari | |
| Gagauzes | 418,000 | 0.5% | Balkan Gagauz Turkish | 7 |
| Pomaks | 351,000 | 0.4% | Bulgarian | 5 |
| Pontic Greeks | 321,000 | 0.4 % | Pontic Greek | 6a |
| Adyghe Circassians | 316,000 | 0.4% | Adyghe | 5 |
| Alevi Kurds | 184,000 | 0.2 % | Zazaki | |
| Georgians | 151,000 | 0,1 % | Georgian | 6b |
| Bosniaks | 101,000 | 0.1% | Bosnian | |
| Chechens | 101,000 | 0.1% | Chechen | |
| Crimean Tatars | 100,000 | 0.1% | Crimean Tatar | 5 |
| Lazs | 93,000 | 0.1% | Laz language | 6b |
| Karakalpaks | 74,000 | Karakalpak | ||
| Albanians | 66,000 | Tosk Albanian | 6b | |
| Armenians | 61,000 | Armenian | 6b | |
| Abkhazians | 44,000 | Abkhazian | 6b | |
| Han Chinese | 38,000 | Chinese | ||
| Ossetians | 37,000 | Ossetian | ||
| British | 35,000 | English | ||
| Macedonians | 32,000 | Macedonian | ||
| Jews | 30,000 | Turkish, Ladino | 7 | |
| Tatars | 26,000 | Tatar | ||
| Assyrians | 25,000 | Aramean | ||
| 22,000 | Urdu | |||
| Assyrians | 15,000 | Turoyo | 6b | |
| Turks other | 57,000 | Turkish | ||
| Kurds other | 62,000 | Kurdish | ||
| Other | 180,000 | |||
| Total | 75,566,800 | - |
Scale of Ethnologue:
aExpanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale of Ethnologue:
0 : "The language is widely used between nations in trade, knowledge exchange, and international policy."
1 : "The language is used in education, work, mass media, and government at the national level."
2 : "The language is used in education, work, mass media, and government within major administrative subdivisions of a nation."
3 : "The language is used in work and mass media without official status to transcend language differences across a region."
4 : "The language is in vigorous use, with standardization and literature being sustained through a widespread system of institutionally supported education."
5 : "The language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some though this is not yet widespread or sustainable."
6a : "The language is used for face-to-face communication by all generations and the situation is sustainable."
6b : "The language is used for face-to-face communication within all generations, but it is losing users."
7 : "The child-bearing generation can use the language among themselves, but it is not being transmitted to children."
8a : "The only remaining active users of the language are members of the grandparent generation and older."
8b : "The only remaining users of the language are members of the grandparent generation or older who have little opportunity to use the language."
9 : "The language serves as a reminder of heritage identity for an ethnic community, but no one has more than symbolic proficiency."
10 : "The language is no longer used and no one retains a sense of ethnic identity associated with the language."
Turks
Although numerous modern genetic studies have indicated that the present-day Turkish population is primarily descended from historical Anatolian groups, the first Turkic-speaking people lived in a region extending from Central Asia to Siberia and were palpable after the 6th century BC. Seventh-century Chinese sources preserve the origins of the Turks stating that they were a branch of the Hsiung-nu and living near the "West Sea", perhaps the Caspian Sea. Modern sources tends to indicate that the Turks' ancestors lived within the state of the Hsiung-nu in the Transbaikal area and that they later, during the fifth century, migrated to the southern Altay.The word Türk was used only referring to Anatolian villagers back in the 19th century. The Ottoman elite identified themselves as Ottomans, not usually as Turks. In the late 19th century, as European ideas of nationalism were adopted by the Ottoman elite, and as it became clear that the Turkish-speakers of Anatolia were the most loyal supporters of Ottoman rule, the term Türk took on a much more positive connotation. During Ottoman times, the millet system defined communities on a religious basis, and a residue of this remains in that Turkish villagers will commonly consider as Turks only those who profess the Sunni faith, and will consider Turkish-speaking Jews, Christians, or even Alevis to be non-Turks. On the other hand, Kurdish-speaking or Arabic-speaking Sunnis of eastern Anatolia are sometimes considered to be Turks. The imprecision of the appellation Türk can also be seen with other ethnic names, such as Kürt, which is often applied by western Anatolians to anyone east of Adana, even those who speak only Turkish. Thus, the category Türk, like other ethnic categories popularly used in Turkey, does not have a uniform usage. In recent years, centrist Turkish politicians have attempted to redefine this category in a more multi-cultural way, emphasizing that a Türk is anyone who is a citizen of the Republic of Turkey. Currently, article 66 of the Turkish Constitution defines a "Turk" as anyone who is "bound to the Turkish state through the bond of citizenship".
Ethnic Turks are the majority in Turkey, numbering 55.5 to 60 million.
Kurds
The Kurdish identity remains the strongest of the many minorities in modern Turkey. This is perhaps due to the mountainous terrain of the southeast of the country, where they predominate and represent a majority. They inhabit all major towns and cities across Turkey. However, no accurate up-to-date figures are available for the Kurdish population, since the Turkish government has outlawed ethnic or racial censuses. An estimate by the CIA World Factbook places their proportion of the population at approximately 19%. Another estimate, according to Ibrahim Sirkeci, in his book The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany, based on the 1990 Turkish Census and 1993 Turkish Demographic Health Survey, is 17.8%. Other estimates include 15.7% of the population according to the newspaper Milliyet, and 23% by Kurdologist David McDowall.The Minority Rights Group report of 1985 gave an estimate of 15% Kurds in the population of Turkey in 1980, i.e. 8,455,000 out of 44,500,000, with the preceding comment "Nothing, apart from the actual 'borders' of Kurdistan, generates as much heat in the Kurdish question as the estimate of the Kurdish population. Kurdish nationalists are tempted to exaggerate it, and governments of the region to understate it. In Turkey only those Kurds who do not speak Turkish are officially counted for census purposes as Kurds, yielding a very low figure." In Turkey: A Country Study, a 1995 online publication of the U.S. Library of Congress, there is a whole chapter about Kurds in Turkey where it is stated that "Turkey's censuses do not list Kurds as a separate ethnic group. Consequently, there are no reliable data on their total numbers. In 1995 estimates of the number of Kurds in Turkey is about 8.5 million" out of 61.2 million, or 13% of the population at that time. Turkish government statistics show that Kurdish women in Turkey give birth to about four children, more than double the rate for the rest of the Turkish population. Prime Minister Erdogan stated that Kurds could become a majority by 2038. In some Kurdish dominated provinces women give birth to 7.1 children on average. Even though many Kurds have been migrating to cities in Western Turkey or Western Europe, cities in south-east Turkey are still growing at a faster rate than others. Women in Kurdish dominated provinces of eastern Turkey also have an illiteracy rate about three times higher than men, a factor which correlates with higher birth rates. In Şırnak 66 percent of 15-year-old girls could not read or write.
Kurdish national identity is far from being limited to the Kurmanji-language community, as many Kurds whose parents migrated towards Istanbul or other large non-Kurdish cities mostly speak Turkish, which is one of the languages used by the Kurdish nationalist publications.
Albanians
Arabs
The population of Arabs in Turkey varies according to different sources. Al Jazeera and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy estimates the Arab population before the Syrian Civil War in 2011 from 1,500,000 to more than 2,000,000, with recent Syrian refugees 2,748,367, so Arabs in Turkey constituency now numbers anywhere from 4.5 to 5.1% of the population. Put another way, with nearly 4-5 million Arab inhabitants.Armenians
Armenians in Turkey are indigenous to Anatolia & Armenian highlands well over 3000 years, an estimated population of 40,000 to 70,000. Most are concentrated around Istanbul. The Armenians support their own newspapers and schools. The majority belong to the Armenian Apostolic faith, with smaller numbers of Armenian Catholics and Armenian Evangelicals. Their original population during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire was estimated in excess of 3 million, from 1915 to the early 1920s it is estimated that over 1.5 million of them perished during the Armenian Genocide and forced relocations into the Syrian desert.Assyrians/Syriacs
An estimated 40,000-50,000 Assyrians/Syriacs live in Turkey, with about 17,000 in Istanbul and the other 23-33,000 scattered in southeast Turkey primarily in Turabdin, Diyarbakir, Adiyaman, and Harput respectively. They belong to the Syriac Orthodox Church, Syriac Catholic Church, and Chaldean Catholic Church.Some Mhallami, a Muslim ethnic group who usually are described as Arabs, have Assyrian/Syriac ancestry. They live in the area between Mardin and Midyat, called in Syriac "I Mhalmayto".
Azerbaijanis
It is difficult to determine how many ethnic Azeris currently reside in Turkey, as ethnicity is a rather fluid concept in Turkey, especially amongst Turkic-speaking and Caucasian groups who have been more readily and easily assimilated into mainstream Turkish culture. Up to 300,000 of Azeris who reside in Turkey are citizens of Azerbaijan. In the Eastern Anatolia Region, Azeris are sometimes referred to as acem or tat. They currently are the largest ethnic group in the city of Iğdır and second largest ethnic group in Kars.Since linguistically the two are so similar, the safest way to count or estimate the number of Azeris from the Turks in Turkey is to note the fact that Azeris are practically all Shia Muslims while their Turkish and Kurdish neighbors are Sunni Muslims
Bosniaks
Chechens
Towards the end of the Caucasian War, many Chechens fled their homelands in the North Caucasus and settled in the Ottoman Empire. Chechens number from tens or hundreds of thousands.Circassians
Towards the end of the Russo-Circassian War, many Circassians fled their homelands in the North Caucasus and settled in the Ottoman Empire. Most ethnic Circassians have fully assimilated into Turkish culture, making it difficult to trace, count, or even estimate their ethnic presence.Georgians
There are approximately 1 million people of Georgian ancestry in Turkey, according to the newspaper Milliyet.Greeks
The Greeks constitute a population of Greek and Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians who mostly live in Istanbul, including its district Princes' Islands, as well as on the two islands of the western entrance to the Dardanelles: Imbros and Tenedos, and historically also in western Asia Minor, the Pontic Alps, and central Anatolia and northeastern Anatolia and the South Caucasus region. The Istanbul Greeks are the remnants of the estimated 200,000 Greeks permitted under the provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne to remain in Turkey following the 1923 population exchange, which involved the forcible resettlement of approximately 1.5 million Greeks from Anatolia and East Thrace and of half a million Turks from all of Greece except for Western Thrace. After years of persecution, emigration of ethnic Greeks from the Istanbul region greatly accelerated, reducing the 120,000-strong Greek minority to about 7,000 by 1978. The 2008 figures released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry places the current number of Turkish citizens of Greek descent at the 2,000–3,000 mark. According to Milliyet there are 15,000 Greeks in Turkey, while according to Human Rights Watch the Greek population in Turkey was estimated at 2,500 in 2006.Iranians
noted in a 2010 publication that there were some 500,000 Iranians in Turkey.Laz
Most Laz today live in Turkey, but the Laz minority group has no official status in Turkey. Their number today is estimated to be around 250,000 and 500,000. Only a minority are bilingual in Turkish and their native Laz language which belongs to the South Caucasian group. The number of the Laz speakers is decreasing and is now limited chiefly to the Rize and Artvin areas. The historical term Lazistan — formerly referring to a narrow tract of land along the Black Sea inhabited by the Laz as well as by several other ethnic groups — has been banned from official use and replaced with Doğu Karadeniz. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the Muslim population of Russia near the war zones was subjected to ethnic cleansing; many Lazes living in Batum fled to the Ottoman Empire, settling along the southern Black Sea coast to the east of Samsun.Roma people
The Roma in Turkey descend from the times of the Byzantine Empire. According to some reports, there are about 500,000-700,000 Roma in Turkey. The neighborhood of Sulukule, located in Western Istanbul, is the oldest Roma settlement in Europe.Zazas
Zazas are a people in eastern Anatolia who natively speak the Zaza language. Their heartland, the Dersim region, consists of Tunceli, Bingöl provinces and parts of Elazığ, Erzincan and Diyarbakır provinces. The exact number of Zazas is unknown, due to the absence of recent and extensive census data. The most recent official statistics concerning native language are available for the year 1965, where 147,707 chose Zaza as their native language in Turkey.Religion
According to the latest sources by Ipsos, in 2016 Islam was the major religion in Turkey comprising 82% of the total population, followed by religiously unaffiliated people, comprising 13% of the population, and Christians, forming 0.2%.There are no official statistics of people's religious beliefs nor is it asked in the census. According to the government, 99.8% of the Turkish population is Muslim, mostly Sunni, some 10 to 15 million are Alevis. The remaining 0.2% is other - mostly Christians and Jews. However, these are based on the existing religion information written on every citizen's national id card, that is automatically passed on from the parents to every newborn, and do not necessarily represent individual choice. Furthermore, anyone who was not officially registered as Christian or Jewish by the time of the foundation of the republic was automatically recorded as Muslim, and this label has been passed down to new generations. Therefore, the official number of Muslims also includes people with no religion; converted from Islam to a different religion than Islam; and anyone who is of a different religion than their parents but has not applied for a change of their individual records. It should also be noted that the state allows the individual records to be changed and can have their religion information removed from the identification card, but such change does not affect the official record.
The Eurobarometer Poll 2005 reported that in a poll 96% of Turkish citizens answered that "they believe there is a God", while 1% responded that "they do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force". In a Pew Research Center survey, 53% of Turkey's Muslims said that "religion is very important in their lives". Based on the Gallup Poll 2006–08, Turkey was defined as More religious, in which over 63 percent of people believe religion is important. According to the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, 33% of women wear the headscarf or hijab in Turkey however most of them wear a cultural headscarf which is not a symbol of Islam and is used by women in small villages that work under the sun to protect themselves from the sun. 18% of male Muslim citizens regularly attend Friday prayers.
A poll conducted by Eurobarometer, KONDA and some other research institutes in 2013 showed that around 4.5 million of the 15+ population had no religion. Another poll conducted by the same institutions in 2015 showed that that number has reached 5.5 million, which makes roughly 9.4% of the population.
Religious groups according to estimates:
The vast majority of the present-day Turkish people are Muslim and the most popular sect is the Hanafite school of Sunni Islam, which was officially espoused by the Ottoman Empire; according to the KONDA Research and Consultancy survey carried out throughout Turkey on 2007:
- 52.8% defined themselves as "a religious person who strives to fulfill religious obligations"
- 34.3 % defined themselves as "a believer who does not fulfill religious obligations".
- 9.7% defined themselves as "a fully devout person fulfilling all religious obligations".
- 2.3% defined themselves as "someone who does not believe in religious obligations".
- 0.9% defined themselves as "someone with no religious conviction".
Census
Census of 1927
| Province | Population |
| İstanbul | 794,444 |
| İzmir | 526,065 |
| Konya | 504,384 |
| Balıkesir | 421,066 |
| Şebinkarahisar | 108,735 |
| Cebelibereket | 107,694 |
| Siirt | 102,433 |
| Total | 13,648,270 |
1965 census
| Province / Language | Turkish | Kurdish | Arabic | Zazaki | Circassian | Greek | Georgian | Armenian | Laz | Pomak | Bosnian | Albanian | Jewish |
| Adana | 866,316 | 7,581 | 22,356 | 332 | 51 | 51 | 0 | 28 | 9 | 0 | 312 | 483 | 29 |
| Adıyaman | 143,054 | 117,325 | 7 | 6,705 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Afyonkarahisar | 499,461 | 125 | 19 | 1 | 2,172 | 169 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 1 |
| Ağrı | 90,021 | 156,316 | 105 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 77 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 103 | 0 | 0 |
| Amasya | 279,978 | 2,179 | 9 | 2 | 1,497 | 6 | 1,378 | 208 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 336 | 1 |
| Ankara | 1,590,392 | 36,798 | 814 | 21 | 393 | 124 | 41 | 66 | 120 | 7 | 126 | 833 | 64 |
| Antalya | 486,697 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Artvin | 190,183 | 46 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7,698 | 1 | 12,093 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Aydın | 523,583 | 168 | 85 | 0 | 112 | 71 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 88 | 0 |
| Balıkesir | 698,679 | 560 | 38 | 8 | 3,144 | 236 | 1,273 | 9 | 205 | 1,707 | 314 | 24 | 4 |
| Bilecik | 137,674 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 736 | 4 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Bingöl | 62,668 | 56,881 | 19 | 30,878 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bitlis | 56,161 | 92,327 | 3,263 | 2,082 | 205 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Bolu | 375,786 | 363 | 0 | 0 | 1,593 | 3 | 1,541 | 488 | 1,791 | 0 | 40 | 6 | 1 |
| Burdur | 194,910 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Bursa | 746,633 | 213 | 22 | 0 | 799 | 106 | 2,938 | 35 | 517 | 65 | 1,169 | 1,928 | 69 |
| Çanakkale | 338,379 | 443 | 0 | 25 | 1,604 | 5,258 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 3,675 | 516 | 6 | 121 |
| Çankırı | 250,510 | 158 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Çorum | 474,638 | 8,736 | 4 | 0 | 1,808 | 12 | 8 | 51 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Denizli | 462,860 | 283 | 28 | 5 | 8 | 97 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Diyarbakır | 178,644 | 236,113 | 2,536 | 57,693 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 134 | 3 | 48 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Edirne | 290,610 | 386 | 104 | 21 | 9 | 18 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 10,285 | 329 | 58 | 92 |
| Elazığ | 244,016 | 47,446 | 17 | 30,921 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Erzincan | 243,911 | 14,323 | 13 | 298 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Erzurum | 555,632 | 69,648 | 86 | 2,185 | 109 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Eskişehir | 406,212 | 327 | 42 | 0 | 1,390 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 23 | 114 | 78 | 0 |
| Gaziantep | 490,046 | 18,954 | 885 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| Giresun | 425,665 | 305 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2,029 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gümüşhane | 260,419 | 2,189 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hakkari | 10,357 | 72,365 | 165 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hatay | 350,080 | 5,695 | 127,072 | 7 | 780 | 767 | 11 | 376 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 44 | 1 |
| Isparta | 265,305 | 688 | 75 | 11 | 8 | 91 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Mersin | 500,207 | 1,067 | 9,430 | 23 | 76 | 137 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| İstanbul | 2,185,741 | 2,586 | 2,843 | 26 | 317 | 35,097 | 849 | 29,479 | 128 | 165 | 3,072 | 4,341 | 8,608 |
| İzmir | 1,214,219 | 863 | 352 | 5 | 1,287 | 898 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 1,289 | 2,349 | 1,265 | 753 |
| Kars | 471,287 | 133,144 | 61 | 992 | 215 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Kastamonu | 439,355 | 1,090 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 180 | 849 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kayseri | 509,932 | 8,454 | 34 | 8 | 17,110 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 160 | 1 |
| Kırklareli | 252,594 | 602 | 136 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3,375 | 1,148 | 144 | 11 |
| Kırşehir | 185,489 | 11,309 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kocaeli | 320,808 | 235 | 0 | 10 | 1,467 | 63 | 2,755 | 46 | 2,264 | 381 | 3,827 | 22 | 7 |
| Konya | 1,092,819 | 27,811 | 67 | 4 | 1,139 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 75 | 0 |
| Kütahya | 397,221 | 105 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 88 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
| Malatya | 374,449 | 77,794 | 33 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 148 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Manisa | 746,514 | 241 | 15 | 0 | 488 | 42 | 67 | 2 | 6 | 54 | 116 | 192 | 3 |
| Kahramanmaraş | 386,010 | 46,548 | 21 | 0 | 4,185 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Mardin | 35,494 | 265,328 | 79,687 | 60 | 75 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| Muğla | 334,883 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muş | 110,555 | 83,020 | 3,575 | 507 | 898 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nevşehir | 203,156 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Niğde | 353,146 | 8,991 | 10 | 0 | 227 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 0 |
| Ordu | 538,978 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4,815 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Rize | 275,291 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5,754 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sakarya | 388,481 | 2,163 | 32 | 3 | 538 | 6 | 4,535 | 2 | 2,671 | 23 | 2,899 | 794 | 1 |
| Samsun | 747,115 | 1,366 | 3 | 0 | 3,401 | 91 | 2,350 | 5 | 51 | 319 | 10 | 610 | 0 |
| Siirt | 46,722 | 179,023 | 38,273 | 484 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 98 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Sinop | 261,341 | 2,126 | 0 | 0 | 659 | 1 | 1,144 | 228 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| Sivas | 649,099 | 32,284 | 19 | 23 | 2,086 | 0 | 0 | 217 | 1 | 0 | 515 | 0 | 0 |
| Tekirdağ | 284,222 | 548 | 76 | 18 | 5 | 19 | 52 | 8 | 2 | 1,627 | 6 | 51 | 102 |
| Tokat | 483,948 | 3,974 | 7 | 3 | 5,934 | 0 | 367 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 964 | 0 |
| Trabzon | 590,799 | 72 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4,535 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tunceli | 120,553 | 33,431 | 20 | 2,370 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 |
| Şanlıurfa | 207,652 | 175,100 | 51,090 | 14,554 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Uşak | 190,506 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Van | 118,481 | 147,694 | 557 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 66 |
| Yozgat | 433,385 | 2,424 | 1 | 0 | 1,597 | 2 | 0 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| Zonguldak | 649,757 | 43 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Minorities
Modern Turkey was founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as secular, i.e. without a state religion, or separate ethnic divisions/ identities. The concept of "minorities" has only been accepted by the Republic of Turkey as defined by the Treaty of Lausanne and thence strictly limited to Greeks, Jews and Armenians, only on religious matters, excluding from the scope of the concept the ethnic identities of these minorities as of others such as the Kurds who make up 15% of the country; others include Assyrians/Syriacs of various Christian denominations, Alevis and all the others.There are many reports from sources such as on persistent yet declining discrimination.
Certain current trends are:
- Turkish imams get salaries from the state, whereas Turkish Alevi as well as non-Orthodox and non-Armenian clerics are not paid
- Imams can be trained freely at the numerous religious schools and theology departments of universities throughout the country; minority religions can not re-open schools for training of their local clerics due to legislation and international treaties dating back to the end of Turkish War of Independence. The closing of the Theological School of Halki is a sore bone of contention between Turkey and the Eastern Orthodox world;
- The Turkish state sends out paid imams, working under authority from the Presidency of Religious Affairs to various European or Asian countries with Turkish- or Turkic-speaking populations, with as local heads officials from the Turkish consulates;
- Turkey has recently engaged in promulgating a series of legal enactments aiming at removal of the procedural hurdles before the use of several local languages spoken by Turkish citizens such as Kurdish, Arabic and Zaza as medium of public communication, together with several other smaller ethnic group languages. A few private Kurdish teaching centers have recently been allowed to open. Kurdish-language TV broadcasts on 7/24 basis at the public frequency denominated in the government-owned TRT 6, while the private national channels show no interest yet. However, there are already several satellite Kurdish TV stations operating from Kurdish Autonomous Region at Northern Iraq and Western Europe, broadcasting in Kurdish, Turkish and Neo-Aramaic languages, Kurdistan TV, KurdSAT, etc.;
- Non-Muslim minority numbers are said to be falling rapidly, mainly as a result of aging, migration.
- There is concern over the future of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, which suffers from a lack of trained clergy due to the closure of the Halki school. The state does not recognise the Ecumenical status of the Patriarch of Constantinople.
CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook:Age structure
0–14 years: 24.26%
15–24 years: 15.88%
25–54 years: 43.26%
55–64 years: 8.82%
65 years and over: 7.79%
Median age
total population:
31.2 years
male:
30.9 years
female:
31.9 years
Sex ratio
at birth:
1.05 male/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male/female
15–24 years:
1.04 male/female
25–54 years:
1.03 male/female
55–64 years:
0.99 male/female
65 years and over:
0.8 male/female
total population:
1.01 male/female
Life expectancy at birth
total population:
75.3 years
male:
72.9 years
female:
77.7 years
Urbanization
urban population: 75.1% of total population
rate of urbanization: 2.04% annual rate of change
Nationality
noun:
Turk
adjective:
Turkish
Literacy
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 96.2%
male: 98.8%
female: 93.6%