Tbilisi demographics · Atlas

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Demographics over time · Tbilisi · share of population

Georgian
Armenian
Russian
Azerbaijani

All observations · 17 rows

Year	Group	Share	Population	Source	Notes
1828	Georgian	18%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828
1828	Armenian	75%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828	Pre-1830s Tiflis was overwhelmingly Armenian; the Russian Imperial period would gradually balance the population toward a more mixed composition.
1873	Georgian	21%	—	Caucasus Calendar (Каменский Календарь / Кавказский календарь), 1846-1917
1873	Armenian	47%	—	Caucasus Calendar (Каменский Календарь / Кавказский календарь), 1846-1917
1873	Russian	22%	—	Caucasus Calendar (Каменский Календарь / Кавказский календарь), 1846-1917
1897	Armenian	36%	—	First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897	Tiflis (Tbilisi) was the largest Armenian city of the Russian Empire by 1897.
1897	Georgian	26%	—	First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897
1897	Russian	25%	—	First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897
1897	Azerbaijani	3%	—	First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897
1926	Russian	17%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1926
1926	Armenian	34%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1926
1926	Georgian	38%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1926	After the 1918-21 First Republic period and the post-1921 Sovietisation, Tiflis began to shift toward a Georgian plurality.
1959	Armenian	21%	—	All-Union Population Census of 1959
1979	Armenian	14%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1979
1989	Armenian	12%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1989	Soviet-era reduction; substantial out-migration of Armenians from Tbilisi 1990s onward.
2014	Georgian	89%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1989	Georgian census 2014. Substantial reduction in the Armenian and Russian shares since 1989 through emigration.
2014	Armenian	4%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1989