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Turkey's population reaches 82 million
Turkey's population hit 82 million to reach its highest level ever as of end of 2018, the country's statistical authority said on Friday.
- Turkey
- Published Date: 10:50 | 01 February 2019
- Modified Date: 10:51 | 01 February 2019
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Official figures revealed that the population residing in Turkey increased by 1,193,357 people year-on-year.
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"Male population was 41,139,980 people and female population was 40,863,902 people.
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"While 50.2 percent of the total population were males, 49.8 percent of the total population were females," TurkStat said.
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Fresh data also showed that annual population growth rate increased to 1.47 percent in 2018 from 1.24 in 2017.