What is the population of Azerbaijan?What nationality are living in this country, and how long ago they settled there?The answers to these questions can be found in this article.
Azerbaijan population and the number of data
It is a small country located on the shores of the Caspian Sea, right on the border of Asia and Europe, the eastern and western culture.How many of the population live in Azerbaijan at the moment?And what ethnicities make up its structure?
Azerbaijani population, according to the latest UN data, employs 9.7 million people.For this indicator, the country ranks first in the Caucasus region.However, about 120-140 thousand of them live in the territory of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh state.
his 9,000,000th foreign population of Azerbaijan reached in 2010.The birth of the nine millionth citizen was even recorded.It happened in the city of Nakhchivan in the morning on January 15 of that year.
As evidenced by the statistics, the population of Azerbaijan in the last hundred years has increased almost five times.In the 25 years of independence, the total population growth of the country amounted to about 2.5 million people, which is very high for the post-Soviet states.More clearly the dynamics of the number of inhabitants of Azerbaijan is represented in the graph below.
birth rate in the country is three times higher than the death rate.This can explain the steady annual increase in its population.Nevertheless, the average life expectancy in Azerbaijan is not so high (72 years).Although, again, for the countries of the former Soviet Union - it is a pretty good indicator.
women in Azerbaijan is slightly larger than males (50.3%).The density of population is 98 people per square kilometer.
population of Azerbaijan and its religious composition
According to the Constitution of Azerbaijan separation of church and state and has no influence on education, culture or any other field of public life.
religious composition of the country is represented by various trends and confessions, leading role among which is Islam.99% of the population profess the religion is.And about 85% among them are Shiite Muslims.
addition, in Azerbaijan freely functioning temples of other religions synagogues, Catholic churches, Orthodox and Protestant churches.It registered and operating in the country, even the Zoroastrian community.
Christianity in Azerbaijan almost common.Thus, in the state now operates a total of six Orthodox churches (half of them located in the capital).The Catholic Church in the country originated in the XIV century.The most significant event in the life of Azerbaijani Catholics began to arrive in Baku Pope John Paul III, which took place in spring 2002.
ethnic diversity of the population of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is home to many nationalities and ethnic groups.The first of a dozen in number as follows:
- Azerbaijanis (91%);
- Lezgins (2%);
- Armenians (1.4%);
- Russian (1.3%);
- Talysh (1.3%);
- Avars (0.6%);
- Turks (0.4%);
- Tatars (0.3%);
- Ukrainians (0.2%);
- Georgians (0.1%).
absolute majority in the ethnic structure of the country belongs to Azerbaijanis.These people dominated in all regions and cities of the state (with the exception of Nagorno-Karabakh).In the early 1990s, the share of this ethnic group in the population structure of the country has significantly increased due to the active resettlement of Azerbaijanis from neighboring Armenia (as a result of the Karabakh conflict).
most numerous nationalities of Azerbaijan and their placement
According to the last census, in Azerbaijan is home to about 120 thousand Armenians.This nation is concentrated in the range of Nagorno-Karabakh - the territory not controlled by national authorities, as well as in Baku.
first Russian community appeared in Azerbaijan in the XIX century.Now the country is home to about 200 thousand Russian, but their number is decreasing every year (mainly due to the exit from the state).
Azerbaijan has formed a fairly large and integrity of the Ukrainian diaspora.Ukrainians began to move to this country in the late XIX century in connection with an active industrial development of Azerbaijan.At the same time on the territory of the country (mostly - in Baku) began to arrive en masse Poles.Their relocation was due, primarily, to the "oil boom" in Azerbaijan.Baku from Poland came as a highly qualified engineers and ordinary workers.
Cities Azerbaijan
urban population of Azerbaijan is only 53% of the total number of its inhabitants (by European standards, it is very small).Cities with populations over 50 thousand people in the country a total of ten.Moreover, the state capital - the city of Baku essentially broke away from them in terms of population.At the moment it is the only city in the state of one million.
largest city in Azerbaijan: Baku, Ganja, Sumgait, Mingachevir, Khirdalan, Nakhchivan, Sheki.
in the state capital, is estimated by demographers, is home today to about 2.1 million people.This city is very different from all other Azerbaijani cities.Today, he actively develops and acquires a modern high-rise buildings.
In conclusion ...
Today Azerbaijan is home to about 9.7 million people, and the population of this country is rapidly approaching 10 million mark.The ethnic composition of the State rather motley.In addition to the indigenous people, there are representatives of many other nationalities - Armenians, Russian, Lezgins, Kurds, Tatars, Turks, Ukrainians, Talysh.
