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//Turkey xP // Turkey's Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality Turkey has a quite high infant mortality rate for the region of Europe and Central Asia [about 20]. Countries such as Luxembourg and Iceland have very low infant mortality rates [around 2] while countries such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have high infant mortality rates [around 30] - making Turkey in the middle, however closer to the high infant mortality countries. Turkey's life expectancy is quite low compared to other countries in its region [about 72 years]. Countries in Europe are above 75 while countries in central asia are below 75. Compared to the world, Turkey has quite a low infant mortality. The world average is thought to be 60 showing that Turkey is below the average, as it should be. For Life Expectancy, Turkey is doing well with a high life expectancy since the world average is 67.2 years.

Infant Mortality As you can see on this graph, Infant Mortality has been declining in Turkey since the 90s. In 1990, it had a high infant mortality rate of 67 and over the course of 10 years, that number decreased by 29. In the 00s, the declining rate has not been as steep since in 2006, the rate had only decreased by 14 from the number it was in 2000.

Life Expectancy For men, over the course of the 90s and 00s, the rate of life expectancy has been increasing. Between 1990-2000, the rate was steady, changing their life expectancy from 63 to 67, however over the course of the years 2000-2006, the rate changed and became more rapid - increasing the life expectancy to 71. For women, over the course of the 90s and 00s, the rate of life expectancy has been increasing at a steady rate. In 1990, the rate was 67 while sixteen years later in 2006, the rate was 75.
 * Current Life Expectancy for Men: **
 * Current Life Expectancy for Women: **

Leading Causes of Death Conclusion Turkey, with a life expectancy of 72 years, has quite high life expectancy compared to the rest of the world since the world average is about 67.2 years. Also, compared to the rest of the world, Turkey does have a low Infant Mortality rate [a rate of 20] while the world average is thought to be around 60. The main diseases in Turkey are degenerative such as coronary heart disease [#1], lung disease [#3] and lung cancer [#4]. However, Turkey does also have many accidental causes of death [stroke, hypertension, pneumonia, road traffic accidents] suggesting that Turkey should educate people on the safety of obeying road rules and the consequences of being over-worked or over-stressed. Since Turkey has many degenerative diseases, it can be classified as a developed country however, it still needs to develop more as it does have water/vector borne causes of deaths [influenza - #5, diarrhoeal - #11] and deaths that result because of poor medical care [birth trauma - #14].
 * Disease || Number of total deaths by disease || % of total Deaths || Cause ||
 * Coronary Heart Disease || 93,147 || 25.73 || Nutrition, Degenerative ||
 * Stroke || 64,297 || 17.76 || Accidental ||
 * Lung Disease || 24,671 || 6.82 || Degenerative ||
 * Lung Cancer || 17,191 || 4.75 || Accidental, Degenerative ||
 * Influenza & Pneumonia || 14,192 || 3.92 || Accidental, Water/Vector Borne ||
 * Hypertension || 11,527 || 3.18 || Accidental, Degenerative ||
 * Diabetes Mellitus || 9,868 || 2.73 || Degenerative, Nutrition ||
 * Low Birth Weight || 8,776 || 2.42 || Nutrition ||
 * Road Traffic Accidents || 8,307 || 2.29 || Accidental ||
 * Inflammatory/Heart || 7,626 || 2.11 || Degenerative, Nutrition ||
 * Diarrhoeal Diseases || 7,598 || 2.10 || Water/Vector Borne, Nutrition ||
 * Other Injuries || 7,129 || 1.97 || Accidental ||
 * Stomach Cancer || 5,775 || 1.60 || Nutrition, Degenerative ||
 * Kidney Disease || 5,095 || 1.41 || Degenerative, Nutrition ||
 * Birth Trauma || 4,856 || 1.34 || Poor Medical Health Care ||