A Gender Review in Education, Turkey 2003 (1)

Country Profile

A girl leans on a mud wall, her forearm masking her face

A girl in Harran, Southeastern Turkey.
Photograph by Mustafa Ertekin © UNICEF Turkey 2004

Indicators

**Table 1:** Population
Basic Indicators	Total	Female	Male
Population¹	67,803,927	33,457,192	33,346,735
Population under 18 years²	24,472,133	11,830,105	12,642,028
Population under 5 years³	6,584,822	3,188,132	3,396,690
Urban Population⁴	59.2%	59.1%	59.4%
Urban Population⁵	64.9%	64.5%	65.3%

¹ 2000 Population Census Results, State Institute of Statistics (SIS) 2003.

² 2000 Population Census, Social and Economic Characteristics of Population, Turkey, Publication Number 2759, p140, SIS 2003.

³ ibidem

⁴ The ratio of population living in urban settlements defined as ‘urban places’ with a population in excess of 20,001 to the general population. SIS, 2003.

⁵ Populations of towns and townships are taken as urban places according to organisational definitions. 2000 Population Census, Social and Economic Characteristics of Population, Turkey, Publication Number 2759, pp140, 141.

**Table 2:** Basic Indicators
Basic Indicators	Average	Female	Male
Income per capita⁶	US$2,584	n/a	n/a
Life expectancy at birth⁷	68.5 years	70.9 years	66.2 years
Under 5 Mortality Rate⁸	45.5‰	40.4‰	50.3‰

⁶ SIS, 2002.

⁷ Population and Development Indicators National Population Projection, SIS 2002.

⁷ SIS, 2003.

**Table 3:** Development Indices
Index	Number of Countries	Rank
Human Development Index⁹	174	85
Gender-related Development Index¹⁰	146	71
Under 5 Mortality¹¹	192	79

⁹ Human Development Report, 2002 (HDR), UNDP, New York, 2003.

¹⁰ ibidem

¹¹ The State of the World’s Children, 2003, p99 UNICEF, New York, 2003.

Population and Development Indicators was established by the State Institute of Statistics in cooperation with the United Nations in order to present annual information in tabular and graphical form. Population and Development Indicators helps to evaluate and monitor programmes in the field of population and development.

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