Turkey’s birth data is easier to read when birth intensity, fertility, and maternal age share one timeline. Select a year to compare all three at once.
Turkey’s birth change in three indicators
Birth rate and fertility fall while maternal age rises, 2001–2020.
- Live births, 2020
- 1,112,859
- Crude birth rate
- 13.3 ‰
- Total fertility rate
- 1.76
- Average maternal age
- 29.0
Crude birth rate
Births per 1,000 people
Total fertility rate
Expected children per woman
Average maternal age
Age of mothers at birth, years
2020
Birth rate and fertility reach their lowest points in the series.
What changed
- Crude birth rate declines almost continuously.
- Total fertility falls below replacement level after a brief mid-2010s pause.
- Average maternal age rises steadily.
Source: TÜİK
