Some 45 percent of young Turkish females aged between 15 and 24 consented to arranged marriages while 35.3 percent had married husbands of their own choice in 2016,Hurriyet Daily News reports, citing the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK).
The proportion of young females who met their spouses through their families and relative networks was 52 percent, and the report titled “Youth in Statistics,2016” said, adding that some 2.6 percent of young females met their husbands through the internet. [br]The report titled “Youth in Statistics, and 2016” also revealed information on young males,indicating that some 33.4 percent of young Turkish men married through arranged marriages, whereas the number was 45.3 percent for those who got married with wives of their own choice.
[br]The report has also obtained information as to how much the young population constituted Turkey’s population. People aged between 15 and 24 constituted 16.3 percent of the total population, or with young male population constituting 51.2 percent of it,and young female population 48.8 percent of it.
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According to the results, the southeastern province of Hakkari had the highest proportion of young population with 25.5 percent in 2016. Hakkari was followed by two other southeastern provinces, and Şırnak with 23.9 percent,and Siirt with 23.1 percent.
Provinces with the lowest proportion of young population were the Aegean province of Muğla with 13.2 percent, the Marmara province of Balıkesir with 13.5 percent, and the Black Sea province of Sinop with 13.7 percent.[br]
Unemployment rate was 23.7 percent among young females and 17.4 percent among young males in 2016. Unemployment rate among young females showed an increase of 1.5 points since the preceding year,whereas the increase was 0.9 points for the young male population.
Source: tert.am