Turkey is administratively divided into 81 provinces.
According to estimation of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), life expectancy at birth in Turkey in period 2018-2020 was 78.3 years (75.6 years for male and 81.1 years for female).
[3] According to estimation of the World Bank Group, in 2019 life expectancy in Turkey was 77.8 years (74.7 for male, 81.0 for female).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to 2020 this indicator decreased till 75.9 years (72,8 for male, 79,1 for female).
[4][5][6] In 2015-17, the difference in life expectancy between the most prosperous and disadvantaged provinces was 4.55 years.