Bandar -Turkman Population Development Trend during 1956-1996 and its Future Horizon

Awareness of societies demographic changes and developments is imperative for any kind of planning for them, because all economic, social, and cultural aspects of those societies have been linked to the number of population and its structural characteristics. This article is aimed at considering Bandar-Turkman’s demographic developments as one of the small towns of the country, and analysis of the developments trends, recognition of reasons and its effective factors in order to have a better understanding of the status quo, and provision of a suitable ground for the future plannings. To achieve the aim, first statistical data related to the city in all periods of census were extracted and while the tables were provided,the related charts were drawn with the assistance of the Excel software, then they were analysed by numerous demographic formulas. The obtained results show that national and occasionally international politics had the most negative or positive impacts on this city demographic growth and structure development. In other words, this city has not yet reached its role finding and enough maturity, and its developments have always been under the shadow of the central government or indirect national policies. The coordination of city’s population growth with other country’s urban areas, population adolescence, the upward trend of the educatedrate, the unemployed and services section’s employees, and the downward trend of gender ratio, the ratio of the employed in the industry section in particular are other results of this research.