TY  - JOUR
TI  - SOCIO-CULTURAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF TOTAL FERTILITY RATE CHANGES IN TURKEY FROM 2000 TO PRESENT
AB  - Population growth in Turkey and in the world can be explained withseveral reasons. However, the main reason that determines populationgrowth is fertility. The total fertility rate refers to the average number ofchildren a woman gives birth to during the period when she is fertile (the15-49 age group). The fertility rate in Turkey has been declining for years.As a result of high fertility and rapid population growth, Turkey has ayoung population structure. According to the census results of 2000,while approximately 30% of the population was aged 15 and under, theshare of those aged 65 and over was about 6%. Significant reductions,especially in fertility rates, have occurred in Turkey in recent years.Depending on this, the age structure of the population in Turkey is alsochanging. The total fertility rate, which was five children per woman inthe 1970s, decreased to 2.65 children in the 1990s and to 2.26 childrentoday. This change has also caused the median age in Turkey to rise. InTurkey, the median age, which generally ranged from 19.6 to 20.3 yearsin 1940-1960, increased steadily after 1970. The median age, which was24.8 in 2000, reached 32 in 2018. As of the end of 2018, the median agewas determined to be 31.4 in males and 32.7 in females. This changearises as a result of the economic and socio-cultural development inTurkey.Define Turkey's social development as a priority and is associated withincreased educational opportunities of men. Increased, leadership servicelife more easily folded in the possibility of strengthened. The age ofmarriages and the age of having a child are shifted further, leading tochanges in the number of children according to age groups.
AU  - Sertkaya Doğan, Özlem
DO  - 10.29228/TurkishStudies.36821
PY  - 2019
JO  - Turkish Studies - Social Sciences 
VL  - 14
IS  - 5
SN  - 2667-5617
SP  - 2449
EP  - 2462
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/350648
ER  -