Editing Turku (section)

=== Population ===

{{Historical populations
| title= Historical population
| percentages = pagr
|state = collapsed
 |1815|12550
 |1850|17178
 |1870|19617
 |1890|30096
 |1900|31658
 |1910|41993
 |1920|45408
 |1930|53681
 |1940|65475
 |1972|160067
 |1980|163680
 |1990|159180
 |2000|172561
 |2010|177326
 |2020|194391
 |footnote=Source: Tilastollinen päätoimisto,<ref name="stv1940">{{Cite web  | url=https://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/69230/stv_1940.pdf | title=Suomen tilastollinen vuosikirja 1940 | date=1941 | publisher=Tilastollinen päätoimisto | access-date=5 January 2024 | language=fi }}</ref> [[Statistics Finland]] (1972-2020)<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons">{{Cite web |url=https://stat.fi/en/publication/cl8lprraorrr20dut5a0tywm5 |title=Number of foreign-language speakers grew by nearly 38,000 persons |date=31 May 2023 |publisher=Statistics Finland |access-date=12 September 2023 |language=en |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907001445/https://stat.fi/en/publication/cl8lprraorrr20dut5a0tywm5 |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

The city of Turku has {{formatnum: {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Turku }}}} inhabitants, making it the {{ordinal|{{Data Finland municipality/population count sequence|Turku}}}} most populous municipality in Finland. The [[Turku metropolitan area]] has a population of {{formatnum: {{#expr: {{Data Finland municipality|population_total|Kaarina}}+{{Data Finland municipality|population_total|Lieto}}+{{Data Finland municipality|population_total|Naantali}}+{{Data Finland municipality|population_total|Raisio}}+{{Data Finland municipality|population_total|Rusko}}+{{Data Finland municipality|population_total|Turku}}}}}}, and the larger [[Turku sub-region]] has a population of {{formatnum: {{#expr: {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Turku}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Kaarina}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Lieto}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Masku}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Mynämäki}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Naantali}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Nousiainen}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Paimio}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Raisio}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Rusko}} + {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Sauvo}} }} }}. This is making it the third largest region in Finland after [[Helsinki metropolitan area|Helsinki]] and [[Tampere sub-region|Tampere]]. Turku is home to 4% of Finland's population. 17 per cent of the population has a foreign background, which is almost twice as high as the national average. However, it is lower than in the major Finnish cities of [[Helsinki]], [[Espoo]] or [[Vantaa]].<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final">{{cite web |url= https://stat.fi/en/publication/cm1jg8tr20lco07vwvoif9s6i |title= Number of foreign-language speakers exceeded 600,000 during 2024  |date= 2025-04-04 |series= Population structure |publisher= Statistics Finland |issn= 1797-5395  |access-date=2025-04-07 }}</ref>

The city's population density is 794.4 inhabitants per square kilometre. The median age in the city is 42.1, lower than the national average of 43.6.

{{Bar chart
| title = Population size 1980–2020<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/>
| label_type = Year
| data_type = Population
| bar_width = 47
| width_units = em
| label1 = 1980
| label2 = 1985
| label3 = 1990
| label4 = 1995
| label5 = 2000
| label6 = 2005
| label7 = 2010
| label8 = 2015
| label9 = 2020
| data_max = 200000
| data1 = 163933
| data2 = 162379
| data3 = 159180
| data4 = 164744
| data5 = 172561
| data6 = 174868
| data7 = 177326
| data8 = 185908
| data9 = 194391
}}