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Demographics over time · Nakhichevan · share of population + headcount
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
0%25%50%75%100%460kEVENTSArmenianAzerbaijani460k189719261939195919701979198920241918atrocity1919destruction1921treaty1936event2025event
YearGroupSharePopulationSourceNotes
1897Armenian40%—First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897
1897Azerbaijani56%—First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897
1926Azerbaijani84%—All-Union Soviet Census of 1926
1926Armenian15%—All-Union Soviet Census of 1926
1939Azerbaijani87%—All-Union Population Census of 1939
1939Armenian11%—All-Union Population Census of 1939
1959Azerbaijani93%—All-Union Population Census of 1959
1959Armenian5.6%—All-Union Population Census of 1959
1970Armenian2.3%—All-Union Population Census of 1970
1979Armenian1.4%—All-Union Soviet Census of 1979
1979Azerbaijani96%—All-Union Soviet Census of 1979
1989Azerbaijani95.9%—All-Union Soviet Census of 1989
1989Armenian0.6%—All-Union Soviet Census of 1989
2024Azerbaijani99.6%460,000Azerbaijan 2019 Population EstimatesNakhichevan ASSR. Almost wholly Azerbaijani, with the residual Armenian population effectively zero from the 1990s.