One in every 139 babies born in the world today is born in Türkiye. Türkiye has about 950,000 births a year, around 0.7% of all births worldwide.

Births per year
950,000
Share of world births
0.7%
Birth odds
1/139
Life expectancy
78 years
Risk of dying before age 5
0.9%
Income per person, PPP
$41,000
Children per woman
1.5
Urban population
77%

Life expectancy in Türkiye is 78 years, which is 5 years longer than the world average.

Of every 1,000 babies born here, about 9 do not reach their fifth birthday. The world average is 37 per 1,000.

Income per person is about $41,000 in purchasing power. That is 1.8 times the world average.

On average a woman has 1.5 children in her lifetime. The world average is 2.3.

About 77% of the population lives in cities. A baby born here has roughly a 23% chance of being born in the countryside.

Born in Turkey: a family that shrank by half in fifty years

In the 1960s a baby born in Turkey could expect to live about 50 years. Today the figure is 78. Over the same period the number of children per woman fell from six to 1.5, dropping below the replacement level in the early 2000s. Fast urbanization, vaccination campaigns, clean water, more girls in school and maternal and child health care reaching the villages all played a part.

Differences within the country are still clear. Fertility is very low in the big cities of the west and well above the national average in the east and southeast. The mother's education is one of the strongest factors: women who stay in school marry later and have fewer children. Whether you are born in a city or the countryside, which province you grow up in and your family's income still steer your life, from the risks of infancy to the opportunities of school age. The income level of the province where a baby is born and the number of years its mother spent at school affect both its health risks in the first five years and its job prospects later.

Religious makeup

  • Islam97%
  • No religion3%

Sample names given to people born in this country in the game

Emir · Yusuf · Mehmet · Kerem · Zeynep · Elif · Defne · Asel

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Values are rounded approximations. Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024, World Bank WDI, Pew Research Center 2020.