The previous year, children made up 28% of the population, while this was 48.5% in 1970 and 41.8% in 1990, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said in a report.<\/p>\n
“According to population projections, the proportion of child population is foreseen to be 27% in 2023, 25.6% in 2030, 23.3% in 2040, 20.4% in 2060, and 19.0% in 2080,” it added.<\/p>\n
The ratio of children in the EU population is 18.6%, with Ireland at the top of the bloc with 24.5%, followed by France with 21.7%.<\/p>\n
“The countries with the lowest proportion of child population were Italy with 16%, Malta with 16.2% and Germany with 16.4%, respectively,” the report underlined.<\/p>\n
The ratio child dependency — the number of children in the 0-14 age group per 100 people at the 15-64 age group — was recorded at 34.1% in Turkey as of the end of last year. The ratio was 34.5% in the previous year.<\/p>\n
The child dependency rate is expected to decrease to 33.5% in 2023, 29.9% in 2040, and 28% in 2080, according to TurkStat.<\/p>\n
In 2019, the most popular names in Turkey were Yusuf for boys and Zeynep for girls.<\/p>\n
While the net rate of enrollment in school at the lower secondary school level was 93.3%, school enrollment for children at age five was 75.2% in the 2018-2019 school year.<\/p>\n
The net schooling ratio at the primary school level was 91.5% last year, the institute noted, adding that there was no significant difference between girls and boys.<\/p>\n
The number of children last year engaged in economic activities was 720,000, it said.<\/p>\n
Life expectancy at birth was 78.3 years for the overall population, while for males it was 75.6 years and 81 years for females, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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