The population of Turkey.

This monograph on the characteristics of Turkeys population prepared for the World Population Year Series under the general direction of the Committee for International Coordination of National Research in Demography analyzes the Turkish population according to the following topical organization: 1) The history of Turkeys population gr owth; 2) Fertility mortality and international migration as components of population growth; 3) The structure of the Turkish population according to distribution by sex and age distribution of the disabled population population distribution by marital status family structure according to family size and household characteristics population distribution by nationality and religion and the cultural level of the population as measured by literacy rates; 4) Internal migration and population redistribution; 5) The size participation rates and composition by economic sectors occupation and employment status of the labour force; 6) Population projections; and 7) Economic and social implications of population growth and population policy. A primary theme particularly emphasized in the last chapter is the strong pronatalist policy followed by the Turkish government from the early 1920s to the mid-1960s as a consequence of great wartime population losses. The large proportion of the population in the dependent ages and the poor maternal and child health conditions prompted a change away from the pronatalist bias of the Population Planning Law in the mid-1960s.