Turkey sees 77 pct surge in single person households over past decade

The number of people living alone at home in Turkey increased by 77.2 percent in the last 10 years. The number of single-person households in 2023 was approximately 5.2 million, according to the state-run TÜİK.

Sunday February 11 2024 01:59 pm

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The number of single-person households in Turkey was approximately 5.2 million in 2023, according to the information compiled by the Anadolu Agency based on the state-run Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) data.

While the number of one-person households was 2.93 million in 2014, this number was recorded as 4.062 million in 2019. The number of people living alone increased to 4.40 million in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the first time.

In the last 10 years, the number of single-person households increased the most in 2021, when the effects of the pandemic continued, and the number of single-person households increased to 4.78 million in this year.

In the following years, the rate of increase slowed down and the number of people living alone increased to 5.067 million in 2022. Last year, the number of one-person households increased by 125,000 to 5.19 million.

Thus, the number of people living alone has increased by 77.2 percent in the last 10 years.

Of those living alone, 934,000 live in Istanbul, 375,000 in the capital Ankara, 355,000 in Aegean Izmir, 195,000 in southern Antalya, and 179,000 in western Bursa. In 10 metropolitan cities, the number of single-person households was more than half of the total number with 2.6 million.

The provinces with the least number of people living alone were Bayburt with 5,000, Ardahan with 7,000 in the Black Sea region; and eastern Hakkari with 8,0000.

The number of "households,” which refers to the people living at the same address whether they are related or not, was determined as 26.3 million as of last year. The same figure was 26.7 million in 2022.

In 2023, the number of households consisting of nuclear families with parents and at least one child was 16.78 million, of which 10.3 million were nuclear families with spouses and children, 3.67 million were nuclear families with only spouses, and 2.8 million were with single parents and children.

The number of households with a mother and children was 2.16 million while it was 630,000 with a father and children.