When making population counts we need to
include the more than 3 million people who
have immigrated to Germany and other
countries with the 65 million people living
in Turkey. Today, 70% of this population
live in cities and 30% in rural areas.
Especially after the 1950s, the
modernization of agriculture and industrial
development resulted in mass internal
migration from rural areas to cities. This
internal migration still continues at a
tremendous speed, causing a series of
problems such the issue of slums and shanty
towns. High population growth rates have
resulted in a very young population. After
the 1960s there has been a decrease in this
growth rate as a result of extensive efforts
in family planning.
In today's Turkey, most of the population is
concentrated in the Marmara, Aegean and the
Mediterranean regions which are economically
more developed compared to the Eastern and
Southeastern Anatolia regions.
