nüfusun

Nüfusun is the Turkish form used to express possession or association with nüfus, the word for population. It translates roughly as “of the population” or “the population’s.” In Turkish grammar, nüfusun appears when linking the noun to another noun that describes a property, measure, or attribute of the population.

Common phrases include nüfusun büyüklüğü (the size of the population), nüfusun dağılımı (the distribution of the population), nüfusun yaş yapısı (the age structure of the population), and nüfusun artış hızı (the population growth rate). The form is frequently encountered in demographic statistics, public administration, and policy discourse, especially in discussions of census data and urban planning.

The noun nüfus and its possessive form nüfusun are widespread in Turkey and Turkish-speaking contexts. The term figures prominently in government statistics, such as nüfus sayımı (census) and discussions of Türkiye nüfusu (the population of Turkey). Etymologically, nüfus is a long-standing Turkish word used in both Ottoman and modern Turkish to denote the people or inhabitants of a region, and its possessive form nüfusun is produced by standard Turkish possessive suffixation.