Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; or TÜİK) is the
Turkish government agency
A government agency or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, s ...
commissioned with producing official
statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...
on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.
It was founded in 1926 and headquartered in
Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
. Formerly named as the State Institute of Statistics (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü (DİE)), the institute was renamed as the Turkish Statistical Institute on November 18, 2005.
See also
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List of Turkish provinces by life expectancy
Turkey is administratively divided into 81 provinces. According to estimation of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), life expectancy at birth in Turkey in period 2021-2023 was 77.3 years (74.7 years for male and 80.0 years for female).
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References
External links
Official website of the institute
National statistical services
Statistical
Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...
Organizations established in 1926
Organizations based in Ankara
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