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Demographics

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 features of the population

Population

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 of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

, including population density

Population density

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, ethnicity

Ethnic group

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, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Total population (in thousands)

Year	1897	1908	1917	1920	1923	1930	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2009	2010
City	305.1	-	560.2	405.8	486.0	750.9	1212.0	1239.8	1195.5	1138.1	1105.8	1118.5	1159.9	1163.1	1110.1	1149.1	1252.3	1835.2	2564.6	3247.5	3847.3	4116.4	4818.7	-
Rural	1501.6	-	1793.5	1546.4	1377.0	1818.6	2062.0	2092.0	1961.6	1780.0	1670.9	1587.1	1574.6	1577.4	1589.2	1583.5	1606.6	1980.5	2552.5	2866.8	3284.6	3916.4	4078.6	-
Total	1806.7	2014.3	2353.7	1952.2	1863.0	2569.5	3274.0	3331.8	3157.1	2918.1	2776.7	2705.6	2734.5	2740.5	2699.3	2732.6	2858.9	3815.7	5117.1	6114.3	7131.9	8032.8	8896.9	9000.0.

Notes about table

• To see the effect of periodical events on the population period until 1950 is not given in decades.

9,047,000 (2010)

Vital statistics

	Average population (x 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)
1960	3 895	165 849	25 918	139 931	42.6	6.7	35.9
1961	4 026	170 504	27 295	143 209	42.4	6.8	35.6
1962	4 163	168 341	30 901	137 440	40.4	7.4	33.0
1963	4 303	175 033	30 230	144 803	40.7	7.0	33.7
1964	4 441	176 546	31 841	144 705	39.8	7.2	32.6
1965	4 575	167 429	29 095	138 334	36.6	6.4	30.2
1966	4 703	166 545	31 657	134 888	35.4	6.7	28.7
1967	4 826	157 270	32 338	124 932	32.6	6.7	25.9
1968	4 945	158 962	32 950	126 012	32.1	6.7	25.4
1969	5 060	148 078	35 428	112 650	29.3	7.0	22.3
1970	5 172	150 976	34 506	116 470	29.2	6.7	22.5
1971	5 281	146 261	34 236	112 025	27.7	6.5	21.2
1972	5 387	137 752	35 658	102 094	25.6	6.6	19.0
1973	5 491	138 569	34 770	103 799	25.2	6.3	18.9
1974	5 591	139 084	36 082	103 002	24.9	6.5	18.4
1975	5 689	141 857	39 291	102 566	24.9	6.9	18.0
1976	5 784	147 199	38 029	109 170	25.4	6.6	18.8
1977	5 878	146 822	39 035	107 787	25.0	6.6	18.4
1978	5 970	148 812	39 936	108 876	24.9	6.7	18.2
1979	6 028	153 080	43 022	110 058	25.4	7.1	18.3
1980	6 161	154 974	43 064	111 910	25.2	7.0	18.2
1981	6 260	164 577	42 898	121 679	26.3	6.9	19.4
1982	6 351	160 425	42 376	118 049	25.3	6.7	18.6
1983	6 453	168 644	42 944	125 700	26.1	6.7	19.5
1984	6 560	174 437	44 845	129 592	26.6	6.8	19.8
1985	6 661	177 657	45 179	132 478	26.7	6.8	19.9
1986	6 760	186 609	45 344	141 265	27.6	6.7	20.9
1987	6 866	184 585	45 744	138 841	26.9	6.7	20.2
1988	6 980	184 350	47 485	136 865	26.4	6.8	19.6
1989	7 085	181 631	44 016	137 615	25.6	6.2	19.4
1990	7 153	182 989	42 819	140 170	25.6	6.0	19.6
1991	7 271	190 353	44 659	145 694	26.2	6.1	20.0
1992	7 382	181 361	51 258	130 103	24.6	6.9	17.6
1993	7 495	174 618	52 809	121 809	23.3	7.0	16.3
1994	7 597	159 761	54 921	104 840	21.0	7.2	13.8
1995	7 685	143 315	50 828	92 487	18.6	6.6	12.0
1996	7 763	129 247	48 242	81 005	16.6	6.2	10.4
1997	7 838	132 052	46 962	85 090	16.8	6.0	10.9
1998	7 915	123 996	46 299	77 697	15.7	5.8	9.8
1999	7 985	117 539	46 295	71 244	14.7	5.8	8.9
2000	8 074	116 994	46 701	70 293	14.5	5.8	8.7
2001	8 153	110 356	45 284	65 072	13.5	5.6	8.0
2002	8 230	110 715	46 522	64 193	13.5	5.7	7.8
2003	8 309	113 467	49 001	64 466	13.7	5.9	7.8
2004	8 398	131 609	49 568	82 041	15.7	5.9	9.8
2005	8 500	141 901	51 962	89 939	16.7	6.1	10.6
2006	8 609	148 946	52 248	96 698	17.3	6.1	11.2
2007	8 723	151 963	53 655	98 308	17.4	6.2	11.3
2008	8 838	152 086	52 710	99 376	17.2	6.0	11.3
2009	8 947	152 139	52 514	99 625	17.0	5.9	11.1
2010		165 643	53 580	112 063	18.5	6.0	12.5

Ethnic groups

Population of Azerbaijan according to ethnic group 1926–1999

Ethnic group	census 19261		census 19392		census 19593		census 19704		census 19795		census 19896		census 19996		census 2009
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Azerbaijanis	1,437,977	62.1	1,870,471	58.4	2,494,381	67.5	3,776,778	73.8	4,708,832	78.1	5,804,980	82.7	7,205,464	90.6	8,172,800	91.6
Lezgins Lezgins The Lezgians are an ethnic group living predominantly in southern Dagestan and northeastern Azerbaijan and who speak the Lezgian language.- Historical concept :While ancient Greek historians, including Herodotus, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, referred...	37,263	1.6	111,666	3.5	98,211	2.7	137,250	2.7	158,057	2.6	171,395	2.4	178,021	2.2	180,300	2.02
Russians Russians The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....	220,545	9.5	528,318	16.5	501,282	13.6	510,059	10.0	475,255	7.9	392,304	5.6	141,687	1.8	119,300	1.35
Armenians Armenians Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....	282,004	12.2	388,025	12.1	442,089	12.0	483,520	9.4	475,486	7.9	390,505	5.6	120,7458	1.5	120,3008	1.35
Talysh Talysh Talysh may refer to:*Talysh people*Talysh language*Talysh Khanate*Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic - a self-declared autonomy, which existed briefly in the south of Azerbaijan in 1993*Talysh Mountains*Talış, Agsu, Azerbaijan*Talış, Hajigabul, Azerbaijan...	77,323	3.3	87,510	2.7	85	0.0					21,169	0.3	76,841	1.0	112,000	1.26
Avars Avars Avar or Avars may refer to:* Eurasian Avars, a nomadic people that conquered the Hungarian Steppe in the early Middle Ages* Uar * Caucasian Avars, a modern people of the Caucasus** Avar language, the language of the Caucasian Avars...	19,104	0.8	15,740	0.5	17,254	0.5	30,735	0.6	35,991	0.6	44,072	0.6	50,871	0.6	49,800	0.56
Turks	95	0.0	600	0.0	202	0.0	8,491	0.2	7,926	0.1	17,705	0.3	43,454	0.5	38,000	0,43
Tatars Tatars Tatars are a Turkic speaking ethnic group , numbering roughly 7 million.The majority of Tatars live in the Russian Federation, with a population of around 5.5 million, about 2 million of which in the republic of Tatarstan.Significant minority populations are found in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,...	9,948	0.4	27,591	0.9	29,370	0.8	31,353	0.6	31,204	0.5	28,019	0.4	30,011	0.4	25,900	0,29
Ukrainians Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...	18,241	0.8	23,643	0.7	25,778	0.7	29,160	0.6	26,402	0.4	32,345	0.5	28,984	0.4	21,500	0,24
Tsakhurs	15,552	0.7	6,464	0.2	2,876	0.1	6,208	0.1	8,546	0.1	13,318	0.2	15,877	0.2	12,300	0.14
Udins	2,445	0.1			3,202	0.1	5,492	0.1	5,841	0.1	6,125	0.1	4,152	0.1	3,800	0.04
Georgians Georgians The Georgians are an ethnic group that have originated in Georgia, where they constitute a majority of the population. Large Georgian communities are also present throughout Russia, European Union, United States, and South America....	9,500	0.4	10,196	0.3	9,526	0.3	13,595	0.3	11,412	0.2	14,197	0.2	14,877	0.2	9,900	0.11
Kurds	41,1937	1.8	6,005	0.2	1,487	0.0	5,488	0.1	5,676	0.1	12,226	0.2	13,075	0.2	6,100	0.07
Tat Tat Tat or TAT may refer to:in ethnology:* Tats, an Iranian ethnic group from the Caucasus* Tat language , their language* Juhuri language, the Jewish Tat language* Tati language , a group of northwestern Iranian dialects...	28,443	1.2	2,289	0.1	5,887	0.2	7,769	0.2	8,848	0.1	10,239	0.1	10,922	0.1	25,200	0.28
Jews Jews The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...	20,578	0.9	41,245	1.3	40,198	1.1	48,652	1.0	35,487	0.6	30,792	0.4	8,916	0.1	9,100	0.1
Others	94,360	4.1	85,387	2.7	25,889	0.7	22,531	0.4	31,552	0.5	31,787	0.5	9,541	0.1	9,500	0.11
Total	2,314,571		3,205,150		3,697,717		5,117,081		6,026,515		7,021,178		7,953,438		8,922,400
1 Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_26.php?reg=2275. 2 Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php. 3 Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_59.php. 4 Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_70.php. 5 Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_79.php. 6 Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php. 7 Almost all Kurds lived in Kurdistan Uyezd, the territory between Armenia Armenia Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...  and Nagorno Karabach. In the late 1930s Soviet authorities deported most of the Kurdish population of Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan. 8 Almost all Armenians Armenians Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....  live in the break-away region of Nagorno Karabach since the early 1990s.

Languages

Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

 (Azeri) 92.3%, Lezgi 2.2%, Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 1.8%,
other 3.3%, unspecified 1% (1999 census)

Demographic statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.

Age structure

0-14 years: 25.8% (male 1,046,501/female 1,011,492)

15-64 years: 66.3% (male 2,573,134/female 2,706,275)

65 years and over: 7.8% (male 246,556/female 377,661) (2006 est.)

Urbanization

Urban population: 52% of total population (2008)

Rate of urbanization: 1% of annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)

Sex ratio

At birth: 1.13 male(s)/female

Under 15 years: 1.12 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 0.96 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.58 male(s)/female

Total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

Total population: 66.66 years

country comparison to the world: 158

Male: 62.53 years

Female: 71.34 years (2009 est.)

Total fertility rate

2.04 children born/woman (2009 est.)

country comparison to the world: 126

HIV/AIDS

Adult prevalence rate: less than 0.2% (2007 est.)

country comparison to the world: 92

People living with HIV/AIDS: 7,800 (2007 est.)

country comparison to the world: 113

Deaths: less than 100 (2007 est.)

country comparison to the world: 127

Religions

• Islam
  Islam
  Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
  
   (of which majority Shi'a Islam
  Shi'a Islam
  Shia Islam is the second largest denomination of Islam. The followers of Shia Islam are called Shi'ites or Shias. "Shia" is the short form of the historic phrase Shīʻatu ʻAlī , meaning "followers of Ali", "faction of Ali", or "party of Ali".Like other schools of thought in Islam, Shia Islam is...
  
  ) 93.4%
• Russian Orthodox Church
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
   2.5%
• Georgian Orthodox Church 0.18%
• Judaism
  Judaism
  Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
  
   (incl. Mountain Jews
  Mountain Jews
  Highland Jews, Mountain Jews or Kavkazi Jews also known as Juvuro or Juhuro, are Jews of the eastern Caucasus, mainly of Azerbaijan and Dagestan. They are also known as Caucasus Jews, Caucasian Jews, or less commonly East Caucasian Jews, because the majority of these Jews settled the eastern part...
  
  ) 0.11%

Note: Religious affiliation is still nominal in Azerbaijan; percentages for actual practicing adherents are much lower

Literacy

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write

Total population: 98.8%

Male: 99.5%

Female: 98.2% (2003 est.)