Turkey's Total Fertility And Number Of Live Births Rise In 2014

- Thi number of live births and total fertility rate in Turkey rose in Turkey in 2014, according to the Birth Statistics data released by Turkstat on Friday.

The number of live births in Turkey rose by 3.6 percent to 1 million 338 thousand in 2014, while 51 percent of births were boys and 49 percent of births were girls.

Total fertility rate rose to 2.17 childeren in 2014, up from 2.10 children in 2013, which means that a woman gave approximately 2.17 live births during her reproductive life.

Total fertility rate represents the average number of live births that a woman would have under the assumption that she survived to the end of her reproductive life, 15-49 age group, and had a child according to a given age specific fertility rate.

Highest fertility rates were in the eastern Turkey, where childeren per woman seen at between 3.86 to 4.52 in various provinces of the region.

The lowest total fertility rates were seen in the western cities of Turkey, Edirne with 1.47 children. Karabük with 1.55 children, Kırklareli with 1.56 children, Çanakkale and Eskişehir with 1.57 children.

When the fertility rate was examined by age group, it was seen that the highest age specific fertility rate was in 25-29 age group, where age specific fertility rate means that the average number of live births per thousand women in a certain age group.

While the age specific fertility rate in this age group was 126 per thousand according to the revised 2009 data, this rate was 135 per thousand in 2014, which means the number of live births was 135 per thousand women in 25-29 age group in 2014.

The crude birth rate rose to 17.3 per thousand, up from 17.0 per thousand in 2013, which means that while the number of births was 17 per thousand population in 2013, the number of births was 17.3 per thousand population in 2014.