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Turkey

Turkey Marriage, divorce and children Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Childless women, aged 40-44 4% 2000 11th out of 12
Contraception use among married women > Any method 73% 2008 7th out of 23
Marriageable age > Females 18 2014 8th out of 47
Marriageable age > Males 18 2014 14th out of 32
Marriages 603,751 2012 2nd out of 50
Marriages per thousand people 8.16 2012 7th out of 50
Minimum legal marrying age > With parental consent > For Women 16 2011
Rural divorces per million people 112.02 1979 10th out of 13
Teen marriage rate > Women 9.8 2008 11th out of 14
Total divorces 123,325 2012 2nd out of 36
Total divorces per thousand people 1.67 2012 21st out of 36
Urban divorces 9,733 1979 7th out of 13
Urban divorces per thousand people 0.227 1979 12th out of 13
Women denied family planning 6.2% 2008 10th out of 13
Years spent single before marriage > Females 22 years 1998 4th out of 11

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; Wikipedia: Marriageable age (Africa); Wikipedia: Marriageable age (South America); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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Turkey People > Marriage, divorce and children Profiles (Subcategories)

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