ANKARA - The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced that the population residing in Turkey has increased by 1,151,115 people in a year and reached 83,154,997 people as of December 2019.
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced the "Results of Address-Based Population Registration System" today (February 4).
Accordingly, the population residing in Turkey has increased by 1 million 115 thousand 115 people when compared to the previous year, reaching 83 million 154 thousand 997 people as of December 31, 2019.
While 50.2 percent (41 million 721 thousand 136 people) of the total population of Turkey were men, 49.8 percent (41 million 433 thousand 861 people) of the total population were women.
Annual population growth rate decreased to 13.9 per thousand in 2019 from 14.7 per thousand in 2018.
The proportion of the population residing in province and district centers increased to 92.8 percent in 2019 from 92.3 percent in 2018.
According to the results of Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS), foreign population residing in Turkey increased by 320 thousand 146 people and reached 1 million 531 thousand 180 people. While 50.8 percent of this population were men and 49.2 percent were women.
The TurkStat has shared the following figures:
POPULATION OF ISTANBUL: OVER 15 MILLION
The population residing in İstanbul increased by 451 thousand 543 people compared to the previous year and reached 15 million 519 thousand 267.
İstanbul, constituting 18.66 percent of Turkey's population, was followed by Ankara with 5 million 639 thousand 76 inhabitants, İzmir with 4 million 367 thousand 251 inhabitants, Bursa with 3 million 56 thousand 120 inhabitants and Antalya with 2 million 511 thousand 700 inhabitants.
LEAST POPULATED PROVINCE: DERSIM
Dersim was the least populated province with 84 thousand 660 people. This province was followed by Bayburt with 84 thousand 843 inhabitants, Ardahan with 97 thousand 319 inhabitants, Kilis with 142 thousand 490 inhabitants and Gümüşhane with 164 thousand 521 inhabitants.
PROPORTION OF POPULATION IN WORKING AGE GROUP
The proportion of the working age population aged 15-64 increased from 66.5 percent in 2007 to 67.8 percent in 2019.
Accordingly, the proportion of child population aged 0-14 decreased from 26.4 percent to 23.1 percent, proportion of population aged 65 and over increased from 7.1 percent to 9.1 percent.