Soon Erdogan will ask the Turkish diaspora in Germany, Austria and the rest of Europe to return to the motherland. Or they integrate their refugees from the middle east into the Turkish society.
So, the Kurdish regions are rebuilding?
Couldn’t they just cross breed Turkeys with fertile chickens to boost successful hatching? Or would that run a fowl with the local population?
What about putting fertility drugs into Turkish delights?
That’s around a 30% decrease which is very significant.
It was really fast. Too fast… Why did it happen?
Since this is a data viz sub I will keep politics aside. Personally I would reverse the heatmap, since red indicates trouble. Now whole of turkey is blue, which doesn’t really bring the point across that there are major issues.
Kurds playing the long game
1.2 in istanbul impressive fall
What exactly happened here? How did they fall so fast?
I think the colors should be modified.
Red = very bad
Yellow = bad
Green = expected
Teal = good
Blue = very good
The current graph makes it seem that in 2024, there was only one trouble spot, when in reality fertility has gone down throughout the country.
The vast majority of the time you see this in countries, including the US right now, it is in large part due to the near complete drop in fertility rates among Teen mothers.
From the data:
By education the biggest drop is in ‘illiterate/literate but not school-completed mothers’
By age it is in 15-19 and 20-24
The adolescent fertility rate dropped ~80%, and around ~60% drop for ages 20-24
There is a real fertility rate story going on in many places in the world which will have concerning impacts, but at the same time there is a story of a significant 30+ year consistent decline in Teen pregnancies that should be celebrated.
Education is hell of a drug.
For those who asks the reasons, here is what happened in the last 10 years. Notice how these events affect everyone regardless of their political views, religion or ethnicity.
– A big coup (coup attempt to be exact)
– War in neighbour 1 (Syria)
– War in neighbour 2 (Armenia)
– War in neighbour 3 (Iraq [ISIS movements])
– War in coastal neighbours (black sea is a relatively small sea and countries sharing a coastline have high interconnections with each other) [Ukraine, Russia]
– Participation in proxy wars (Lybia)
– Extremely high inflation (+50%) that has been consistent in the long run
– Big earthquakes in south eastern region
– Mid level earthquake in the West
– Massive wildfires that burnt the south coasts
– Highly unstable region of world (Iran is a neighbour, Israel and Palestine are super close but not neighbours)
– Extreme amount of migration due to all these wars and unstablity
Notice how i haven’t even mentioned inner political problems, that may or may not affect everyone, like extreme rise of conservatism.
Combine all of these factors with an economy that is extremely centered around a single city and you get the recipe for a disaster.
Same general trend we have seen around the world, regardless of religion, money, development, or education.
The only thing that correlates to having a higher birthrate is not having a phone and social media.
While birthrates slow down in developing nations they plunged around the world regardless of development with adoption of the smart phone and social media.
![Collapsing Turkish Fertility Rates, from 2.11 to 1.48 in 8 years. [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1747176012_8y7ak44vol0f1.png)
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Made in Krita and paint
Used [latest release of TUIK data](https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=Dogum-Istatistikleri-2024-54196), the official statistics agency of Turkey.
Is contraception forbiden in the East?
Soon Erdogan will ask the Turkish diaspora in Germany, Austria and the rest of Europe to return to the motherland. Or they integrate their refugees from the middle east into the Turkish society.
So, the Kurdish regions are rebuilding?
Couldn’t they just cross breed Turkeys with fertile chickens to boost successful hatching? Or would that run a fowl with the local population?
What about putting fertility drugs into Turkish delights?
That’s around a 30% decrease which is very significant.
It was really fast. Too fast… Why did it happen?
Since this is a data viz sub I will keep politics aside. Personally I would reverse the heatmap, since red indicates trouble. Now whole of turkey is blue, which doesn’t really bring the point across that there are major issues.
Kurds playing the long game
1.2 in istanbul impressive fall
What exactly happened here? How did they fall so fast?
I think the colors should be modified.
Red = very bad
Yellow = bad
Green = expected
Teal = good
Blue = very good
The current graph makes it seem that in 2024, there was only one trouble spot, when in reality fertility has gone down throughout the country.
The vast majority of the time you see this in countries, including the US right now, it is in large part due to the near complete drop in fertility rates among Teen mothers.
From the data:
By education the biggest drop is in ‘illiterate/literate but not school-completed mothers’
By age it is in 15-19 and 20-24
The adolescent fertility rate dropped ~80%, and around ~60% drop for ages 20-24
There is a real fertility rate story going on in many places in the world which will have concerning impacts, but at the same time there is a story of a significant 30+ year consistent decline in Teen pregnancies that should be celebrated.
Education is hell of a drug.
For those who asks the reasons, here is what happened in the last 10 years. Notice how these events affect everyone regardless of their political views, religion or ethnicity.
– A big coup (coup attempt to be exact)
– War in neighbour 1 (Syria)
– War in neighbour 2 (Armenia)
– War in neighbour 3 (Iraq [ISIS movements])
– War in coastal neighbours (black sea is a relatively small sea and countries sharing a coastline have high interconnections with each other) [Ukraine, Russia]
– Participation in proxy wars (Lybia)
– Extremely high inflation (+50%) that has been consistent in the long run
– Big earthquakes in south eastern region
– Mid level earthquake in the West
– Massive wildfires that burnt the south coasts
– Highly unstable region of world (Iran is a neighbour, Israel and Palestine are super close but not neighbours)
– Extreme amount of migration due to all these wars and unstablity
Notice how i haven’t even mentioned inner political problems, that may or may not affect everyone, like extreme rise of conservatism.
Combine all of these factors with an economy that is extremely centered around a single city and you get the recipe for a disaster.
Same general trend we have seen around the world, regardless of religion, money, development, or education.
The only thing that correlates to having a higher birthrate is not having a phone and social media.
While birthrates slow down in developing nations they plunged around the world regardless of development with adoption of the smart phone and social media.
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