Özet:

Afyonkarahisar is located in the Inner-West Anadolu Region of the Egean Region and a significant crossroads point in terms of transportation. The first population census of the Republic Period was made in 1927 with the population of Afyonkarahisar 258,743 people, the country's most populated year was 18th, while in 2019 the population reached 729,483 but dropped to the 31st place in the country. Afyonkarahisar, which has a fairly mountainous structure, has not been able to provide economic development at the desired level because it has migrated to major cities such as Istanbul and Ankara, primarily in Izmir and its surrounding provinces. The economy of the province is based on agriculture and livestock in 2019 and about 40.2% of the population lives in rural areas. In this study, a number of characteristics of the population of the Afyonkarahisar province have been studied within the population geography. The development of the population that the province possesses throughout the Republican Period, the growth rates, rural-city rates, gender and age structure, migratory experiences and distribution within the province have been studied over the years of counting.

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Özet:

Afyonkarahisar is located in the inner West Anatolian part of the Aegean region and at an important junction point in terms of transportation. In 1927, when the first census of the republican period was carried out, while Afyonkarahisar was the 18th most populous city in the country with a population of 258.743 people, by 2019, its population reached 729.483 but declined to 31st in the country. Afyonkarahisar, which has a very mountonious structure, Since it could not provide its economic development at the desired level, it send imigrants primarily to İzmir and its surrounding cities metropolitan cities such as İstanbul and Ankara. In the province, whose economy is based on agriculture and animal husbandry, approximately 40.2% of the population lives in rural areas as of 2019.In this study, some characteristics of the population of the city of Afyonkarahisar have been examined within the scope of population geography. In this context, development of the population of the province during the republic period, growth rates over the years, rural-urban rates, gender and age structure, migrations and thedistribution in the province was examined during the census years.