DID YOU KNOW ?

• Do you know that the Turkish Population and Housing Census will be conducted in 2011?
• Do you know that the first Population Census in Turkey was conducted in 1927, while the population was 13,648,270?
• Do you know that in 2009 the population was 72,561,312 and women constituted 49.75% of the population, 75.5% of the population were living in provincial and district centers, 17.8% of the population was living in Istanbul, half of the population was under the age of 28.8, the most crowded province in 2009 was Istanbul, whereas Bayburt had the least population?
• Do you know that the number of poor people in our country in 2008 was estimated as 11.933 Million?
• Do you know that in 2008, 27.4% of the people aged 15 and more use tobacco?
• Do you know that the first statistics department in Turkey was founded by the Prof. Dr. Alaadiin Kutlu in 1967 within Hacettepe University?
• Do you know that 26 universities have statistics departments in 2010?
• Do you know that “Central Statistics Office” was founded with the Official Gazette published on April 25, 1926 and this was the foundation base of Turkish Statistical Institute?
• Do you know that the length of the railway in our country was 11.005 km in 2008?
• Do you know that in 2008, our country has a total of 352 046 km road, out of which 2 010 km is highway, 31 311 km is state road, 30 712 km is provincial road and 288 013 km is village road?
• Do you know that in 2008, there were a total of 8,164 printing houses in our country?
• Do you know that in 2008 there were a total of 1,156 public library in our country and there were 13,662,483 books in these libraries?
• Do you know that 412,621 tons red meat was produced in 2009?
• Do you know that 12,542,186 tons milk was produced in our country in 2009?
• Do you know that there were 114,583 physicians, 18,213 dentists and 87,327 nurses in our country in 2009?
• Do you know that 1,262,333  children were born in our country in 2008?
• Do you know that there were 66,097 school in 2008/2009 education year?
• Do you know that in 2008 households spent  %29.1 their income for housing and rent , %22.6 of which for food and beverages free of alcohol  and %14.1 of which for transportation?
• Do you know that unemployment rate was %14 in 2009?
• Do you know that 591,742  couples were married in 2009 and  first marriage age was 23.3 in men and 23 in women? 
• Do you know that 114,162 couples divorced in 2009?
• Do you that in 2008 the number of  fishing boat in our seas was 17,161 and the most caught fish was anchory with 251,675 tons?
• Do you know that there were 50 woman parliamentarians in our country in 2007?

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