Turkey´s population increased to 75.6 million as of 2012-end, the country´s statistics authority has said.

According to data published Monday by TurkStat, Turkey´s population grew by 903,115 in 2012. Annualpopulation growth rate decreased to 12‰ from 13.5‰ in 2011.
TurkStat said 50.2% of the total population are males (37,956,168 persons) and 49.8% are females (37,671,216 persons).
The country´s most crowded city was Istanbul with a population of 13.8 million, which makes up 18.3 percent of the overall population in Turkey. 
Ankara, the country´s capital, followed Istanbul with 4.7 million people and Bayburt was the least crowded city with 75 thousand.