Ethnic Groups
| Ethnic group |
census 19261 | census 19392 | census 19593 | census 19704 | census 19795 | census 19896 | census 2001 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |||
| Armenians | 743,571 | 84.8 | 1,061,997 | 82.8 | 1,551,610 | 88.0 | 2,208,327 | 88.6 | 2,724,975 | 89.7 | 3,083,616 | 93.3 | 3,145,354 | 97.9 | ||
| Kurds | 12,237 | 1.4 | 20,481 | 1.6 | 25,627 | 1.5 | 37,486 | 1.5 | 50,822 | 1.7 | 56,127 | 1.7 | 40,620 | 1.3 | ||
| Russians | 19,548 | 2.2 | 51,464 | 4.0 | 56,464 | 3.2 | 66,108 | 2.7 | 70,336 | 2.3 | 51,555 | 1.6 | 14,660 | 0.5 | ||
| Assyrians | 2,215 | 0.3 | 3,280 | 0.3 | 4,326 | 0.2 | 5,544 | 0.2 | 6,183 | 0.2 | 5,963 | 0.2 | 3,409 | 0.1 | ||
| Ukrainians | 2,286 | 0.3 | 5,496 | 0.4 | 5,593 | 0.3 | 8,390 | 0.3 | 8,900 | 0.3 | 8,341 | 0.3 | 1,633 | 0.1 | ||
| Greeks | 2,980 | 0.3 | 4,181 | 0.3 | 4,976 | 0.3 | 5,690 | 0.2 | 5,653 | 0.2 | 4,650 | 0.1 | 1,176 | 0.0 | ||
| Jews | 335 | 0.0 | 512 | 0.0 | 1,024 | 0.1 | 1,047 | 0.0 | 959 | 0.0 | 720 | 0.0 | 600 | 0.0 | ||
| Azeris | 76,870 | 8.7 | 130,896 | 10.2 | 107,748 | 6.1 | 148,189 | 5.9 | 160,841 | 5.3 | 84,860 | 2.6 | ||||
| Others | 17,683 | 2.0 | 4,031 | 0.3 | 5,667 | 0.3 | 11,092 | 0.4 | 8,590 | 0.3 | 8,944 | 0.3 | 4,640 | 0.1 | ||
| Total | 881,290 | 1,282,338 | 1,763,048 | 2,491,873 | 3,037,259 | 3,304,776 | 3,213,011 | |||||||||
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