Turkey’s fertility rate is now below the replacement rate
Making it more like Europe than the Middle East
by Marcus Roberts
Turkey is a young country with a quickly growing population. Nearly a quarter of Turkey’s 84 million people are children, below the age of 15, while less than 9 per cent are elderly (over the age of 65). Turkey’s population is also a quickly growing one: in the last fifty years it has nearly trebled in size.
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