Nearly 2.5 million people moved between provinces in Türkiye in 2025, with Istanbul recording both the highest number of arrivals and departures, while young people emerged as the country's most mobile age group, official data shows.
According to the latest Internal Migration Statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on Tuesday, 2,475,019 people migrated from one province to another last year.
The share of Türkiye's population moving between provinces stood at 2.87% in 2025. The rate, which was 3.18% in 2008, has changed over the years.
Women accounted for 52.5% of those who moved between provinces, compared with 47.5% for men.
Istanbul received 329,912 migrants in 2025, the highest number nationwide. Ankara followed with 176,833 arrivals and Izmir in western Türkiye, with 106,083.
