Death Statistics, 2017

While the number of deaths was 422 thousand 726 according to the revised 2016 data, it was 425 thousand 781 persons in 2017 by increasing 0.7%. 54.7% of deceased persons were males and 45.3% of deceased persons were females.

Crude death rate which is the number of deaths per thousand persons was 5.3 per thousand in 2017 with no change compared to the previous year.

While the number of infant deaths was 13 thousand 6 in 2016, it was 11 thousand 849 in 2017. While infant mortality rate which is the number of infant deaths per thousand live births was 9.9 per thousand in 2016, it was 9.2 per thousand in 2017.

When the infant mortality rate was examined by provinces, the province having the highest infant mortality rate was Kilis with 17.2 per thousand in 2017. Kilis was followed by Hakkari with 16.7 per thousand, Muş with 14.9 per thousand and Şanlıurfa with 14.4 per thousand. The province having the lowest infant mortality rate was Çankırı with 4.6 per thousand. Çankırı was followed by Eskişehir and Karabük with 5.2 per thousand, and Amasya with 5.3 per thousand.

The first 5 provinces with the highest and lowest infant mortality rates, 2016, 2017
64.4% of infants died before completing their 1st month and 87.7% before 5th

While the proportion of infants dying before completing their first month was 64.7% in 2016, this proportion was 64.4% in 2017. It was seen that infants died in the first day with 13.2%, 1-6 days old with 29.6% and 7-29 days old with 21.6% in 2017. The proportion of infant deaths of 1-4 months old was 23.3% as well.

Daily and monthly infant deaths, 2016, 2017
Under-five mortality rate was 11.2 per thousand

While the under-five mortality rate which is the probability of dying during five years after birth was 12.1 per thousand in 2016, it was 11.2 per thousand in 2017.

While the number of suicides resulting in death was 3 thousand 193 in 2016, it was 3 thousand 69 in 2017 by decreasing 3.9%. 77.2% of people who committed suicide were males and 22.8% of them were females.

While the crude suicide rate which is the number of suicides per hundred thousand population was 4.03 per hundred thousand in 2016, this rate decreased to 3.82 per hundred thousand in 2017. It means that in 2017 approximately four out of every one hundred thousand people committed suicide.

The next release on this subject will be in June 2019.

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Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has published death statistics for the whole Turkey by using death data in the Central Civil Registration System (MERNIS) database, TurkStat cause of death data and suicide data sent by related institutions since 2009.

Death data were revised 3 years retrospectively due to late registration in the administrative records. Death statistics for 2014-2016 were revised as of March 31, 2018, and also death statistics for 2017 were announced as of the same date in this press release.

Suicide statistics have been published in the coverage of death statistics since 2017. Suicide events, which were only obtained from the registers of General Directorate of Security and General Command of Gendarmerie until 2012, have been obtained by also including the suicide registers obtained from cause of death data of TurkStat, and suicide registers of the Ministry of Justice, General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses and Presidency of General Staff since 2012, so the coverage of suicide statistics was expanded.

Suicide data of the previous year are revised due to late registration in the administrative records.