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A total of 92,824 more people had been added to Turkey’s population as of December 31, 2023, bringing the country’s total population to 85,372,377, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on Tuesday.
The population increase took place despite the death of more than 53,000 people in two major earthquakes that hit the country’s south and southeast on February 6, 2023. TurkStat data did not reveal how much of the population growth was due to births and how much due to migration.
A total of 42,638,306 people living in Turkey are female, making up the 49.9 percent of the population, while 42,734,71 are male, accounting for the remaining 50.1 percent, the TurkStat data showed.
The annual population growth rate dropped to 1.1 per thousand in 2023, down from 7.1 per thousand in 2022.
İstanbul was the largest city by population with 15.66 million residents, falling by 252,027 compared to 2022 figures. The city’s population makes up 18.3 percent of Turkey’s total population.
İstanbul is followed by the capital, Ankara, with 5.8 million residents, the western provinces of İzmir with 4.5 million and Bursa with 3.2 million, and the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya with 2.7 million residents.
The northeastern city of Bayburt is the most sparsely populated, with a population of 86.047. It is followed by Tunceli, Ardahan, Gümüşhane and Kilis.
According to the results of the Address-based Population Registration System (ABPRS) the number of foreign nationals residing in Turkey decreased by 253,293 year-on-year to 1.57 million in 2023.
The median age, the age at the midpoint of the population, in Turkey increased to 34 in 2023 from 33.5 in 2022, according to TurkStat. In terms of the distribution among sexes, the median age increased from 32.8 to 33.2 for males while it increased from 34.2 to 34.7 for females.