# Women's Health in Numbers: 32 Figures from Türkiye and the World (2026)

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- Published: 15 October 2026
- Topics: Women's health, Statistics, Türkiye
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> On this page we have brought together women's health figures, each with a stated source and date. Data for Türkiye come from TurkStat (the Turkish Statistical Institute). Where Türkiye has no national data, we used the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and studies in peer-reviewed journals. The figures are for information only; they are not a diagnosis or treatment advice.

On this page we have brought together women's health figures, each with a stated source and date. Data for Türkiye come from TurkStat (the Turkish Statistical Institute). Where Türkiye has no national data, we used the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and studies in peer-reviewed journals. The figures are for information only; they are not a diagnosis or treatment advice.

Last checked: 15 October 2026 · Next update: March 2027 (when TurkStat publishes its "Women in Statistics" bulletin)

## Women and health in Türkiye

1. As of 31 December 2025, 43,032,734 women live in Türkiye. That is 49.98% of the population. (TurkStat, Women in Statistics 2025)

2. Women make up 51.9% of the population aged 60–74 and 69.7% of those aged 90 and over. (TurkStat, Women in Statistics 2025)

3. Life expectancy at birth is 80.7 years for women and 75.5 years for men (2022–2024). (TurkStat, Women in Statistics 2025)

4. Healthy life expectancy at birth, the number of years expected to be lived without a health problem that limits daily activities, is 56.3 years for women and 58.9 years for men (2022–2024). (TurkStat, Women in Statistics 2025)

5. The difference between the two figures: a woman in Türkiye can expect to spend on average 24.4 years of her life with a health problem that limits her daily life. For men, this is 16.6 years. (.ki calculation: 80.7 − 56.3 and 75.5 − 58.9; TurkStat data)

6. Of women aged 15 and over, 24.8% are obese and 32.2% are pre-obese (2025). For men, these rates are 18.7% and 43.1%. (TurkStat, Türkiye Health Survey 2025)

7. 89.7% of women aged 15 and over do no health-enhancing aerobic physical activity outside work (2025; 92.7% in 2022). The share of women who are active for 150 to 300 minutes a week is 2.7%. WHO recommends that adults do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity a week. (TurkStat, Türkiye Health Survey 2025; WHO, 2024)

8. 17.5% of women use tobacco products every day (2025). (TurkStat, Türkiye Health Survey 2025)

9. 8.3% of women and 3.7% of men have difficulty walking up and down stairs (2025). (TurkStat, Türkiye Health Survey 2025)

10. 16.7% of women aged 40 and over had a mammogram in the past year (10.8% in 2022). 42.4% of women in this age group have never had one. (TurkStat, Türkiye Health Survey 2025)

11. 11.8% of women aged 15 and over had a smear test in the past year (7.2% in 2022). 59.0% have never had one. (TurkStat, Türkiye Health Survey 2025)

We explain which tests are recommended and how often in our article [Tests Every Woman Should Have Once a Year](https://www.carewithki.com/en/discover/tests-every-woman-should-have-once-a-year).

## Menstrual cycle

12. On any given day, more than 300 million women worldwide are menstruating. (World Bank, 2022)

13. About 500 million women and girls lack access to menstrual products and adequate hygiene facilities. (World Bank, 2022)

14. More than 90% of women say they have some symptoms before their period. Up to three in four women report having PMS symptoms at some point in their lives. (US Office on Women's Health, 2025)

15. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe form of PMS, affects fewer than 5% of women of reproductive age. (US Office on Women's Health, 2025)

16. Painful periods without pelvic disease (primary dysmenorrhoea) affect between 45% and 95% of menstruating women, depending on the study. The wide range comes from studies defining pain differently. (Iacovides et al., Human Reproduction Update, 2015)

17. Endometriosis affects about 10% (190 million) of women of reproductive age. Diagnosis takes 4 to 12 years on average. As many as 25–50% of women with infertility may have endometriosis. (WHO, 2025)

18. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects 10–13% of women of reproductive age. Up to 70% of women with PCOS are undiagnosed. (WHO, 2026)

You can read when a cycle counts as irregular in our article [When and Why Do Irregular Periods Happen?](https://www.carewithki.com/en/discover/when-and-why-irregular-periods-happen), and about PMS symptoms on our topic page [Menstrual Cycle and PMS](https://www.carewithki.com/en/discover/topic/periods-and-pms).

## Vaginal and urinary health

We could not find national prevalence data for Türkiye on these topics; the figures come from international sources.

19. Bacterial vaginosis affects 23–29% of women of reproductive age worldwide. (WHO, 2025)

20. About 75% of women have a vaginal yeast infection at least once in their lives. 40–45% have two or more. (CDC, 2021)

21. Recurrent vaginal yeast infection, defined as three or more episodes a year, affects fewer than 5% of women. (CDC, 2021)

22. 50–60% of adult women have a urinary tract infection at least once in their lives. (Medina and Castillo-Pino, Therapeutic Advances in Urology, 2019)

23. After a first urinary tract infection, 27% of women have a confirmed new infection within six months. (Medina and Castillo-Pino, 2019)

We have gathered what to look out for in daily hygiene in our article [The Basic Rules of Genital Hygiene](https://www.carewithki.com/en/discover/basic-rules-of-genital-hygiene).

## Menopause

24. Most women reach menopause between the ages of 45 and 55. (WHO, 2024)

25. In 2021, 26% of all women and girls worldwide were aged 50 and over. Ten years earlier, the figure was 22%. (WHO, 2024)

26. In women who often have hot flushes and night sweats, these symptoms last a median of 7.4 years and continue for a median of 4.5 years after the final period. "Often" here means on at least six days in the past two weeks. (Avis et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015; 1,449 women in the US)

27. Genitourinary syndrome of menopause, which covers vaginal dryness and urinary complaints, affects about 27–84% of postmenopausal women. (The North American Menopause Society, Menopause, 2020)

28. Worldwide, 1 in 3 women over 50 will have a fracture due to osteoporosis. For men, the figure is 1 in 5. (International Osteoporosis Foundation, 2024)

You can read what changes in the body during this time in our article [What Is Perimenopause?](https://www.carewithki.com/en/discover/what-is-perimenopause-what-changes-in-your-40s) and on our topic page [Perimenopause and Menopause](https://www.carewithki.com/en/discover/topic/menopause).

## Anaemia and cancer screening

29. Worldwide, 30% (539 million) of non-pregnant women of reproductive age (15–49) have anaemia. Among pregnant women, the rate is 37% (2019). (WHO, 2025)

30. In 2024, 2.4 million women worldwide were diagnosed with breast cancer and 694,000 women died of it. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in 164 of 186 countries. (WHO, 2026)

31. In countries with very high human development, 1 in 12 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Türkiye is in this group. (WHO, 2026; UNDP Human Development Report 2025)

32. Cervical cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women worldwide. In 2024 there were about 604,000 new cases and 280,000 deaths. Almost all cases are caused by HPV infection. WHO recommends screening with a high-performance test every 5–10 years from the age of 30. (WHO, 2026)

## How we chose these figures

- Primary sources only: an official statistics institute, an international health organisation or a peer-reviewed journal. We took no figures from news sites.
- We kept each range and year exactly as the source gives them.
- We have marked our own calculation (item 5) separately.
- We update the figures every year as new TurkStat and WHO data are released.
If you use a figure from this page, please cite the original source. You are also welcome to link to this page for the compilation.

## References

- TÜİK. İstatistiklerle Kadın, 2025 [Women in Statistics, 2025]. News release no. 58272, 6 March 2026. https://veriportali.tuik.gov.tr/tr/press/58272
- TÜİK. Türkiye Sağlık Araştırması, 2025 [Türkiye Health Survey, 2025]. News release no. 53990, 2 June 2026. https://veriportali.tuik.gov.tr/tr/press/53990
- WHO. Physical activity. Fact sheet, 26 June 2024. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-activity
- World Bank. Menstrual Health and Hygiene. 12 May 2022. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/water/brief/menstrual-health-and-hygiene
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Last updated 26 September 2025. https://www.womenshealth.gov/menstrual-cycle/premenstrual-syndrome
- Iacovides S, Avidon I, Baker FC. What we know about primary dysmenorrhea today: a critical review. Human Reproduction Update, 2015;21(6):762–778. PMID 26346058.
- WHO. Endometriosis. Fact sheet, 15 October 2025. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/endometriosis
- WHO. Polycystic ovary syndrome. Fact sheet, 22 January 2026. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/polycystic-ovary-syndrome
- WHO. Bacterial vaginosis. Fact sheet, 21 November 2025. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/bacterial-vaginosis
- CDC. Vulvovaginal Candidiasis. Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/candidiasis.htm
- Medina M, Castillo-Pino E. An introduction to the epidemiology and burden of urinary tract infections. Therapeutic Advances in Urology, 2019;11:1756287219832172.
- WHO. Menopause. Fact sheet, 16 October 2024. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/menopause
- Avis NE, Crawford SL, Greendale G et al. Duration of menopausal vasomotor symptoms over the menopause transition. JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015;175(4):531–539. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.8063
- The North American Menopause Society. The 2020 genitourinary syndrome of menopause position statement. Menopause, 2020;27(9):976–992. PMID 32852449.
- International Osteoporosis Foundation. Epidemiology of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. Updated 8 February 2024. https://www.osteoporosis.foundation/facts-statistics/epidemiology-of-osteoporosis-and-fragility-fractures
- WHO. Anaemia. Fact sheet, 10 February 2025. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/anaemia
- WHO. Breast cancer. Fact sheet, 3 July 2026. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/breast-cancer
- WHO. Cervical cancer. Fact sheet, 3 July 2026. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cervical-cancer
- UNDP. Human Development Report 2025: A matter of choice, Türkiye country note. Human Development Index 0.853 (2023), rank 51, "very high human development" group. May 2025. https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2025-05/hdr2025_country_note_turkiye_1.pdf

_This article is general information; it is not a diagnosis or treatment recommendation._