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Nakhichevan demographics
Every documented census and post-Soviet observation, on a single shared timeline. Hover any chart point or population bar for the source-by-source breakdown.
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- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
All observations · 14 rows
| Year | Group | Share | Population | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | Armenian | 40% | — | First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897 | |
| 1897 | Azerbaijani | 56% | — | First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897 | |
| 1926 | Azerbaijani | 84% | — | All-Union Soviet Census of 1926 | |
| 1926 | Armenian | 15% | — | All-Union Soviet Census of 1926 | |
| 1939 | Azerbaijani | 87% | — | All-Union Population Census of 1939 | |
| 1939 | Armenian | 11% | — | All-Union Population Census of 1939 | |
| 1959 | Azerbaijani | 93% | — | All-Union Population Census of 1959 | |
| 1959 | Armenian | 5.6% | — | All-Union Population Census of 1959 | |
| 1970 | Armenian | 2.3% | — | All-Union Population Census of 1970 | |
| 1979 | Armenian | 1.4% | — | All-Union Soviet Census of 1979 | |
| 1979 | Azerbaijani | 96% | — | All-Union Soviet Census of 1979 | |
| 1989 | Azerbaijani | 95.9% | — | All-Union Soviet Census of 1989 | |
| 1989 | Armenian | 0.6% | — | All-Union Soviet Census of 1989 | |
| 2024 | Azerbaijani | 99.6% | 460,000 | Azerbaijan 2019 Population Estimates | Nakhichevan ASSR. Almost wholly Azerbaijani, with the residual Armenian population effectively zero from the 1990s. |