Posted on 05/18/2024 5:47:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on birth statistics has revealed an alarming decline in the country’s total fertility rate from 2001 to 2023, raising concerns about maintaining the country’s population at the desired level.
According to the Turkstat data, the fertility rate, which stood at 2.38 children per woman in 2001, had decreased to 1.51 children per woman by 2023, showing that Turkey’s fertility rate remained below the population’s replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. The population replacement has remained below 2.1 since 2016 and has never recorded an increase since 2001.
The crude birth rate, which refers to the number of live births per thousand people, was 20.3 in 2001. It had declined to 11.2 per thousand people by 2023, the TurkStat data also showed.
The number of live births in Turkey was 958,408 in 2023, while it was 1,323,000 in 2001.
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63% of the total population in Turkey is fully (China Virus) vaccinated.
Or they moved the goal-posts. Definitions may have changed.
So Turkey is european in this metric...
Hopefully they can turn things around by Thanksgiving
And what does that have to do with a fertility decline that has been going on since 2001?
Nothing.
Fertility rates have been dropping world wide. Very few countries are having enough children to replace their populations. I doubt this has anything to do with biological factors.
Look up youtube videos on the mouse utopia experiments. It's a societal disease going on.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of the fertility rates in the western European part of Turkey and the eastern fundamentalist part of Turkey.
I have not seen data on fertility rates across different regions within a nation (except for state-level US data).
Worldwide, the birth rate has been dropping since the 1960s. The US birth rate had a slight rebound during the pandemic, jumping from 1.66 (in 2021) to 1.7 (in 2023) births per woman. But this is still far below the replacement rate of about 2.3 births per woman. Turkey has a higher birth rate than the US, but is still below replacement level.
The highest birth rates are in African countries, but those are also the countries with the highest child mortality rates. People have more children to offset high child mortality rates.
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