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Turkey’s Population’s Increased Over One Million Compared To Last Year according to TUIK

Turkey’s population saw an increase of over one million compared to last year, reaching 79,814,871 people, the Turkish Statistics Institute announced on Jan. 31.

According to 2016 results from the records of Address Based Population Registration System, males made up 50.2 percent of the total population and females made up 49.8 percent.

The annual population growth rate increased to 13.5 per 1,000 in 2016 from 13.4 per 1,000 in 2015.

The proportion of those who are residing in provincial and district centers also increased to 92.3 percent in 2016 from 92.1 percent, while the proportion of the population living in small towns and villages was just 7.7 percent, according to the results.

The most populated province in the country was Istanbul with 14,804,116 inhabitants, making up 18.5 percent of Turkey’s population.

Istanbul was followed by the capital Ankara with 5,346,518 inhabitants, the Aegean province of İzmir with 4,223,545 inhabitants, the northwestern province of Bursa with 2,901,396 inhabitants, and the southern resort province of Antalya with 2,328,555 inhabitants.

The least populated province of the country was the eastern province of Tunceli with 82,193 inhabitants.
The median age of Turkey’s population increased to 31.4 in 2016 from 31 in 2015. The median age was 30.8 for males and 32 for females.

Provinces with the highest median ages were Sinop with 39.6, Balıkesir with 39.1, and Edirne with 38.8 respectively. Provinces with the lowest median ages were Şanlıurfa and Şırnak with 19.5, Ağrı with 20.5, Siirt with 20.8.

According to the TÜİK figures, the proportion of the population in the 15-64 working age group increased by 1.6 percent, becoming 68 percent in 2016. The proportion of children aged between 0 and 14 dropped to 23.7 percent and the proportion of the population aged 65 and over increased to 8.3 percent.

The population density, which is the number of people per square kilometer, increased by two persons compared to 2015, reaching to 104 in 2016. The province with the highest number of people per square kilometer was Istanbul with 2,849 people, followed by Kocaeli with 507, İzmir with 352, and Gaziantep with 290.

Tunceli had the smallest population density with 11 people per square kilometer, followed by Konya with 56 and Yalova with 285.

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Act*Human has ended amid large public turnout

Act*Human Summit, has been held at Swissotel with participation of 600 representatives from private sector, NGOs and academia. The participation of speakers met with great interest from the audience, where Başak Şengül was the master of ceremony.The summit opened with İNGEV Chairman Vural Çakır’s keynote speech.

The summit’s main goal was to set out a fresh and sincere glance at the relationship between corporations and human development. Among the speakers Emma Duncan, editor of The Economist’s 1843 magazine, emphasized on the importance of contribution from the enterprise while sustaining human development. Marcus Neto, Director of Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development, also reminded the integral role companies play in development in his speech, referring to the recent accomplishments the UNDP and bussiness world contributions while achieving progress in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Coca Cola Company Chairman Muhtar Kent made a video adress at the conference about “Future: Social Enterprise”

The speaker which gathered the largest media attention was perhaps, Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, the writer of SAPIENS and HOMO DEUS which are among the most contraversial books of 21st Century. While summing up the brief history of past, Prof. Harari projected into the future explaining some of “The New Difficulties of 21st Century.”

INGEV Chairman Vural Çakır and HDI-D Project Coordinator Asst. Prof. Murat Şeker, talked about the most recent research developments at INGEV. The two presented the results of INGEV’s recent index of “Human Development Among Turkey’s 150 Districts”, finishing with the outcomes of the foundation’s research on “Public Perception of Human Development in Turkey”.

One of the other highlights of Act*Human was the art exhibition of “Refugee Artists and Children”. The pieces produced on the themes of “Happiness, Freedom and Encounter” were displayed throughout the conference. Students who contributed from six temporary education centers in Bahattin Yıldız High School were coordinated by renowned artist İsmail Acar.

The Summit has acted as a platform where companies and NGOs had an oppotunity to discuss human development, while understanding each other better. A mini-fair has enabled this with participation from 17 different NGOs, where representatives from these organisations connected live to the auditorium. At the end of the summit, the municipalities which ranked the highest in the foundation’s “Human Development Index – Districts” ranking were awarded by INGEV Chairman Vural Çakır.

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“Human Development Index – Districts” Results Announced

“Human Development Index – Districts” Results Announced

The District’s Human Development Levels Have Been Announced
Human Development Index – Districts (HDI-D) Report was completed

INGEV’s Human Development Index (HDI) research among Turkey’s 150 districts is concluded. According to the published results, the districts with Very High Human Development (Green Category) are as follows:

İNGEV Chairman Vural Çakır comments: “Our team of experts has developed an objective mechanism to successfully evaluate our districts’ performance in HDI. More importantly, we are aiming to be able to identify the issues that require prioritized improvement in order to achieve higher development levels in future. With this framework, local administrations will have better insight as to the progress of human development in their area. Through cooperation with local administrators, we desire to identify strategies to advance in Human Development.” Abbreviated as HDI-D, the investigation included 150 districts from Turkey’s 30 metropolitan provinces. Factoring in social and economic variables at the district level, HDI-D includes 50 indices such as governance, social inclusion, income levels, education, health, social life, and transportation. Besides pure statistical data, information acquired through municipalities activity reports, official websites and “anonymous information requests.”

Lecturer at Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Asst. Prof. Murat Şeker, who conducted this research: “The repetition of this research will set light to improvements in development and constitute a reference database of HDI, the where local administrations could benefit following their districts’ development.” Emphasizing on the role of local action plans in order to raise the overall development of Turkey and the responsibility that municipalities have in focusing their activities on this field, Şeker continued: “The local residents will benefit from the budgets and municipalities to the greatest extent if the local administrators put Human Development at the center of their strategies. According to the report, highest Human Development were reported in following the districts: Çankaya, Yenimahalle and Keçiören in Ankara; Kadıköy, Beşiktaş, Beyoğlu, Bakırköy, Şişli, Fatih, Ataşehir and Üsküdar in İstanbul; Muratpaşa and Konyaaltı in Antalya; Odunpazarı and Tepebaşı in Eskişehir; Nilüfer and Osmangazi in Bursa; and finally İzmit in Kocaeli.

Türkiye’de Yaşlı Bakım Hizmetlerinin Proaktif Yönü

INGEV Completed The Research for “The Proactive Side of Elderly Care Services in Turkey and Its Financial Burden Analysis Project”

INGEV Completed The Research for “The Proactive Side of Elderly Care Services in Turkey and Its Financial Burden Analysis Project”

The study was conducted in 2016 on behalf of Ministry of Family and Social Policies. The objectives of the study are determining geographical distribution of elderly population in Turkey and projecting the financial burden of elderly care services on public in the near future.

In the scope of the study a series of topics are covered including historical development of aging population in the world and Turkey, current situation and types of public care services offered to elderly population in Turkey and types of care service models in different countries. Beside background information about elderly population and care services, future operating and infrastructure cost of current care service models that provided by public sector are projected based on population projections of TUIK within the study.

Population projections estimate that every 10 people in 2023, 4 people in 2050 and 3 people in 2075 will be included in the elderly population in Turkey. The increase in life expectancy will lead to increase in the proportion of the eldest (85+ ages) among the elderly in the coming years. The increase in the average age of elderly population over time will increase the population requiring institutional care and health expenditures . When the aging speed of Turkey is compared with developed countries it is clear that Turkey has a limited time to plan the financial burden of aging and care services.

Public funded elderly care services in Turkey consist of cash aid and institutional care services covering a very limited number of elderly. As of 2015, only 1,7% of the 9,5 million elderly received a kind of public-based care.

In order to estimate financial costs of public funded elderly care services until 2023, three scenarios were run. In the first scenario, it is assumed that the demand for public care services will be at the same level as today and in the second scenario it will reach to OECD average. The third scenario estimates the demand according to statement of those who want to receive institutional care service in old age in TAYA 2011 research. All three projections show that if public care service model continues as it does today, it is very hard to meet the demand in the future and even if the demand can be met, operational and infrastructure costs will be extremely high.

This situation shows urgent need for reorganization of social services and introducing new care systems in Turkey. The study suggests four areas to improve elderly care services; easy access to elderly care services for all needy people, sharing the responsibility and care service delivery between central and local governments, organizational restructuring of health and social services for the joint delivery of services, diversification of elderly care services, primarily home care services.

Muhtar Kent will be at Act*Human Summit…

One of the global leaders of the business world, Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Coca Cola Company, Muhtar Kent, will be at Act*Human Summit…

Muhtar Kent is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, a position he has held since April 2009. Previously he was President and Chief Executive Officer and earlier, President and Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Kent joined The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in 1978, holding a variety of marketing and operations leadership positions over the course of his career. In 1985, he became General Manager of Coca-Cola Turkey and Central Asia. Beginning in 1989, he served as President of the Company’s East Central Europe Division and Senior Vice President of Coca-Cola International, with responsibility for 23 countries.

To know more about Muhtar Kent…

World Bank Report on “Poverty and Shared Prosperity”

A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected growth trends, reducing high inequality may be a necessary component to reaching the world’s goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

According to the inaugural edition of Poverty and Shared Prosperity—a new series that will report on the latest and most accurate estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity annually—nearly 800 million people lived on less than US $ 1.90 a day in 2013. That is around 100 million fewer extremely poor people than in 2012. Progress on extreme poverty was driven mainly by East Asia and Pacific, especially China and Indonesia, and by India. Half of the world’s extreme poor now live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and another third live in South Asia.

In 60 out of the 83 countries covered by the new report to track shared prosperity, average incomes went up for people living in the bottom 40 percent of their countries between 2008 and 2013, despite the financial crisis. Importantly, these countries represent 67 percent of the world’s population. (estimated 4.5 billion people)

To read the full report…

Harari will be at Act*Human Summit…

One of 21st Century’s Most Acclaimed Book – The author of “Sapiens: A Brief History of Man Kind”, Yuval Noah Harari will be at Human Development Summit…

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the international bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”..

He was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He specialized in World History, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions:

To know more about Harari…

The Importance of the Corporation in Shaping Human Development

Deputy editor of “The Economist” and editor for “1843” magazine, Emma Duncan, will be at Human Development Summit…

Emma Duncan is the Editor of 1843 , the relaunch of The Economist’s high-end magazine, Intelligent Life. Renamed for the year The Economist was founded, she leads a team of 25 across editorial and commercial writers. The magazine covers the world of ideas, culture and lifestyle and its coverage goes beyond Europe to include America and Asia.

To know more about Duncan…

Our new office location is Kosuyolu…

Dear İNGEV ( Human Development Foundation) Friends ,

Our foundation has moved into the heart of Kosuyolu .

Weekdays between 09:00-6:00 pm, we will be more than happy to welcome you all to our new office, address details located below.

So where does the name Kosuyolu come from, what makes this name so special?

Acibadem’s neighboring district Koşuyolu was a district where horse races were organized by members of the Ottoman court between the years 1900-1920…

Address: Koşuyolu Cd.No : 52 Koşuyolu – Kadıkoy / Istanbul, Turkey

Tel: 0216-540 50 21

Fax: 0216-540 50 24

Our Phone or fax numbers have not changed .

Looking forward to seeing you at Kosuyolu …

UNDP documentary “Thirty Million” Gives Voice to Millions Under Threat

A UNDP-supported documentary was recently released on the threat sea-level rise poses to 30 million Bangladeshis.

South Asia country of Bangladesh is predicted to lose 17 percent of its land by the end of the century if global sea levels rise by one meter.

That has the potential to displace 30 million Bangladeshis.

The documentary, “Thirty Million”, was co-directed by British climate scientist Dr. Daniel Price – who last year cycled from New Zealand to Paris as part of the Pole to Paris campaign – and New Zealand TV journalist Adrien Taylor. The film, financed by UNDP with support from the Least Developed Country Fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was launched by high ranking officials from UNDP, GEF and Bangladesh at an event in the UN Secretariat in New York City.

Last but not least, in order to raise awareness to this issue, UNDP and partners will be carrying the call for increased action through to COP22 in Marrakesh, and work with partners to translate the Paris Agreement into tangible, concrete results.

Source: www.undp.org

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