Abstract
The purpose of this study is the construction of a period life table by age group and gender by using the Turkish general death data which has been started to be published by TurkStat since 2009 with the renewed death data registration system. Turkish general death data and the population data which is obtained from Address Based Population Registration System are used while constructing this life table. Firstly, age specific death rates has been calculated for each age group in a certain time period. Next, age specific death, life probabilities and the expected lifetime have been obtained for the population of Turkey. As a result, the expectation of life at birth is observed to be 79.4 for females and 74.1 for males in 2011. As a result of these studies, it is observed that the population of Turkey is getting older, the life expectancy for females is on the average 5.3 years more than the one for males, and this difference is expeditiously decreasing as time passes. Finally, the results are evaluated and discussed.