Live Population ClockUpdated from the United Nations
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World population/Turkey

Asia

Population of Turkey

87,926,083

Growing by 0.01 people every second

#18

world rank

1.06%

of world population

+0.31%

yearly change

+272,368

people this year

1,045,681

births a year

565,455

deaths a year

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How the figure for Turkey is worked out

The United Nations puts the population of Turkey at 87,926,083 on 1 July 2026, and projects 88,198,451 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.

That places Turkey at number 18 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 1.06 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.

Underneath that single number sit roughly 1,045,681 births and 565,455 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.

None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.

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