Yerevan demographics · Atlas

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Demographics over time · Yerevan · share of population + headcount

Armenian
Azerbaijani
Russian

All observations · 19 rows

Year	Group	Share	Population	Source	Notes
1827	Armenian	30%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828	City of Yerevan, pre-conquest. Bournoutian's analysis of the 1827 kameralnoe opisanie.
1827	Azerbaijani	70%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828	Recorded as "Muslim" / Persian-Tatar in the Russian survey.
1828	Azerbaijani	75%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828
1828	Armenian	24%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828	City of Erivan immediately after Russian conquest. Persian-Caucasian-Tatar majority retained, with Armenian minority swelled by the post-Turkmenchay arrivals.
1873	Azerbaijani	34%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828
1873	Armenian	64%	—	Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828	Yerevan province after the Russian-organised 1828–30 migration.
1897	Armenian	43%	—	First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897	City of Yerevan only; Erivan governorate as a whole was ~53% Armenian / ~37% "Tatar".
1897	Azerbaijani	49%	—	First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897
1897	Armenian	43%	12,500	First General Census of the Russian Empire, 1897	City of Yerevan only. Erivan governorate aggregate was about 53% Armenian / 37% Tatar.
1926	Azerbaijani	8%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1926	Residual Caucasian Tatar (Azerbaijani) population of Yerevan after the 1827 Russian conquest had reversed the city's pre-1828 Tatar majority.
1926	Armenian	88%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1926	After the post-Genocide refugee influx and the 1918-21 turmoil, Yerevan became overwhelmingly Armenian by the first Soviet census.
1939	Armenian	87%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1989	City. After post-genocide refugee influx and Azerbaijani out-migration.
1959	Armenian	93%	—	All-Union Population Census of 1959
1959	Russian	4%	—	All-Union Population Census of 1959
1959	Azerbaijani	1.7%	—	All-Union Population Census of 1959	Residual late-Soviet Azerbaijani population of Yerevan, mostly in the Demirbulag quarter, before the 1988-90 expulsion.
1970	Armenian	95%	—	All-Union Population Census of 1970
1989	Armenian	96%	—	All-Union Soviet Census of 1989	City. By the late Soviet period, Yerevan was overwhelmingly Armenian.
2022	Armenian	99%	1,075,000	Armenia 2022 Population Census	Armstat 2022. Modest population growth from the 2011 figure (~1.06m), partly attributable to in-migration of displaced Karabakh Armenians.
2024	Armenian	99%	1,095,000	Armenia 2022 Population Census	Receiving city for the largest share of the 100,000+ displaced Karabakh Armenians of September 2023.