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Azerbaijan population

Azerbaijan population now

10,468,485

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 10.3–10.6 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 10,318,207

Year
2026
projection · medium
Population, mid-2026
10.4549 million
95% range, 31 Dec: 10.3–10.6 million
Median age
35.1
Aged 65+
9.8%
2023 | 2024 peak 2050

male female projection · one cell = 2,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

AZE · 1950–2100 · in brief

Azerbaijan in numbers

10,318,207 people lived in Azerbaijan in mid-2023: 0.13% of the world's people, and the 94th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 3.3 times its 1950 population of 3.1 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2050 at 11.2 million, then falling to 10.0 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 5.5 million to 15.1 million.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2049 and staying above them from then on. The population still grows until 2050, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 21.2 in 1950 and 33.6 in 2023; the projection has 47.0 in 2100. 8.0% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 27.9% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2039 at 7.6 million.

Its place in the world by population: 94th in 2023, 94th in 2050, 100th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Portugal in 2026, Czechia in 2027 and Cuba in 2031. It is overtaken by Togo in 2030, Israel in 2036 and Sierra Leone in 2038.

Population, mid-2023
10,318,207
Rank by population, 2023
94 of 236
Share of the world, 2023
0.13%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023
+0.22% · +22,903 people
People per km² of land, 2023
125
Land area, 2023
82,650 km²
Births, 2023
125,136
Deaths, 2023
67,842
Net migration, 2023
−84,122
Children per woman, 2023
1.67
Median age, 2023
33.6 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023
74.4 years
In a city, 2025
41 of every 100
Population, mid-1950
3,131,972
Projected, mid-2050
11,224,923
Projected, mid-2100
10,021,320

AZE · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

peak 2050estimates | projections05 m10 m15 m20 m1950197520002025205020752100

estimate   projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range   95% range   medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Azerbaijan, 1950–2100
Azerbaijan: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
YearKindPopulation, 1 Jan95% rangeBirthsDeathsChildren per womanLife expectancy
1950estimate3,105,380117,56164,3455.0846.3
1951estimate3,158,563122,59065,3715.1046.6
1952estimate3,215,743128,80166,2335.1647.0
1953estimate3,278,259135,72766,9605.2347.4
1954estimate3,346,950143,39467,7915.3047.8
1955estimate3,422,472151,77268,4475.3948.4
1956estimate3,505,701160,74369,2735.4948.8
1957estimate3,597,071170,04870,3405.5949.2
1958estimate3,696,665179,29771,0935.7049.7
1959estimate3,804,732187,88171,5575.7950.3
1960estimate3,920,917195,49371,7745.8850.9
1961estimate4,044,496200,90771,7635.9451.4
1962estimate4,173,463203,32571,2575.9652.0
1963estimate4,305,351203,94470,3555.9552.7
1964estimate4,438,746200,60969,1595.8953.3
1965estimate4,568,562194,91867,5715.7953.9
1966estimate4,692,064189,36765,8435.6654.5
1967estimate4,811,737178,85763,8895.3755.0
1968estimate4,922,864173,27762,1875.2155.6
1969estimate5,030,102167,90760,7205.0556.1
1970estimate5,133,445164,08359,4744.9056.6
1971estimate5,234,206160,95558,5154.7657.0
1972estimate5,332,803157,69057,6154.5957.5
1973estimate5,429,032155,98656,9824.4357.9
1974estimate5,524,186156,56756,6344.3158.3
1975estimate5,620,264158,44356,6134.2158.7
1976estimate5,718,255160,83955,5084.1259.5
1977estimate5,863,826164,18655,6253.9860.0
1978estimate6,011,455168,02255,6163.8260.5
1979estimate6,138,700176,23455,3513.7060.9
1980estimate6,235,567182,01455,9543.5961.4
1981estimate6,333,848187,91856,1253.4861.9
1982estimate6,437,360193,32356,7063.3962.2
1983estimate6,545,509199,64657,4433.3262.5
1984estimate6,659,143205,17160,2143.2662.1
1985estimate6,753,420209,92859,8853.2062.7
1986estimate6,846,207212,41561,2943.1462.6
1987estimate6,936,487213,09661,6973.0762.8
1988estimate7,018,828213,56663,1263.0462.7
1989estimate7,143,984212,74563,5493.0062.9
1990estimate7,191,186207,77264,6722.9862.8
1991estimate7,270,968202,49265,9952.9562.5
1992estimate7,357,648192,85772,6172.8660.8
1993estimate7,453,912183,40070,7632.7561.4
1994estimate7,554,318162,57574,8012.4460.3
1995estimate7,663,468148,70569,2172.1961.9
1996estimate7,775,095136,10467,0031.9862.7
1997estimate7,886,869141,41367,1802.0263.0
1998estimate7,985,574131,95564,5931.8563.8
1999estimate8,066,034124,93661,3601.7264.7
2000estimate8,134,909124,47860,6671.7065.4
2001estimate8,214,662117,72859,7591.5966.0
2002estimate8,288,879118,34458,8991.5866.8
2003estimate8,363,388121,35060,2251.5967.0
2004estimate8,437,672152,82461,9081.9767.5
2005estimate8,542,076157,43663,5191.9867.7
2006estimate8,652,420163,98162,9742.0268.5
2007estimate8,770,340163,29364,4621.9768.7
2008estimate8,886,283161,31863,6531.9069.4
2009estimate8,998,994157,21063,4071.8269.9
2010estimate9,093,678168,82763,8611.9270.3
2011estimate9,200,023175,63465,0631.9870.6
2012estimate9,312,277191,21765,3932.1471.1
2013estimate9,440,084191,77465,4172.1571.5
2014estimate9,568,734188,92765,1902.1371.9
2015estimate9,693,542182,76665,2302.0972.3
2016estimate9,812,158173,74865,8722.0372.6
2017estimate9,924,698166,13667,2001.9672.7
2018estimate10,012,321159,80567,3131.9173.0
2019estimate10,067,248153,35567,2841.8473.3
2020estimate10,153,702142,99288,0001.7670.3
2021estimate10,209,758135,56987,4201.7171.0
2022estimate10,258,983129,41965,8721.6974.1
2023estimate10,331,625125,13667,8421.6774.4
2024estimate10,304,789121,32268,6141.6774.6
2025projection10,368,36610.3–10.4 million120,09770,1331.6774.7
2026projection10,427,06010.3–10.5 million119,62071,7381.6674.9
2027projection10,482,65010.3–10.6 million119,96173,5111.6675.0
2028projection10,536,19810.3–10.7 million120,76575,2991.6675.2
2029projection10,588,99210.2–10.8 million121,98177,2621.6675.3
2030projection10,640,51410.2–10.9 million123,30379,3931.6575.5
2031projection10,690,24610.2–11.0 million124,54081,4931.6575.7
2032projection10,739,02410.1–11.1 million125,94683,8591.6575.8
2033projection10,786,83010.1–11.2 million127,12286,2131.6576.0
2034projection10,832,79910.0–11.3 million128,09788,6751.6576.1
2035projection10,877,22210.0–11.4 million128,59991,2161.6576.3
2036projection10,920,10910.0–11.5 million128,65293,6621.6576.4
2037projection10,960,5829.9–11.6 million128,40696,2571.6576.6
2038projection10,998,8929.9–11.7 million128,00598,7651.6476.7
2039projection11,033,8209.8–11.7 million127,501101,2081.6476.9
2040projection11,066,7529.8–11.8 million126,799103,6301.6477.0
2041projection11,095,9199.8–11.9 million125,909105,8591.6477.2
2042projection11,121,9189.7–12.0 million124,981108,0751.6477.4
2043projection11,144,7729.7–12.1 million124,216110,1731.6477.5
2044projection11,164,8799.6–12.1 million123,294112,0341.6477.7
2045projection11,181,3639.6–12.2 million122,264113,7111.6477.8
2046projection11,196,2389.5–12.3 million121,091115,3321.6478.0
2047projection11,207,1419.5–12.3 million119,792116,7371.6478.1
2048projection11,216,3759.4–12.4 million118,528118,0571.6378.3
2049projection11,222,5539.3–12.4 million117,165119,2521.6378.4
2050projection11,224,5319.3–12.5 million115,752120,2491.6378.6
2051projection11,225,3159.2–12.5 million114,341121,1401.6378.8
2052projection11,223,6059.1–12.6 million112,953122,0511.6378.9
2053projection11,220,1709.0–12.6 million111,612122,8581.6479.0
2054projection11,214,1088.9–12.7 million110,293123,5121.6479.2
2055projection11,206,8398.9–12.8 million108,921124,1311.6479.3
2056projection11,197,1118.8–12.8 million107,837124,8271.6479.5
2057projection11,185,4958.7–12.8 million107,094125,4971.6479.6
2058projection11,172,0458.7–12.8 million106,444126,0921.6479.8
2059projection11,158,7448.6–12.9 million106,239126,8451.6479.9
2060projection11,143,7608.5–13.0 million106,087127,5401.6480.1
2061projection11,127,3808.4–13.0 million105,990128,3711.6480.2
2062projection11,110,2088.4–13.1 million106,184129,1811.6480.4
2063projection11,093,6798.3–13.1 million106,356130,1441.6480.5
2064projection11,076,2248.2–13.2 million106,581131,0981.6480.7
2065projection11,057,9058.1–13.2 million107,005132,0901.6480.8
2066projection11,037,9718.1–13.3 million107,211133,0491.6481.0
2067projection11,017,8148.0–13.3 million107,464134,1321.6481.1
2068projection10,995,9437.9–13.4 million107,481135,1241.6481.3
2069projection10,973,3117.8–13.5 million107,383135,9341.6481.4
2070projection10,949,9707.7–13.5 million107,102136,7921.6481.6
2071projection10,924,4247.7–13.6 million106,899137,5061.6481.7
2072projection10,898,0827.6–13.6 million106,506138,2771.6481.8
2073projection10,870,9397.5–13.7 million106,064138,8241.6482.0
2074projection10,842,5287.4–13.7 million105,492139,0661.6482.1
2075projection10,814,1967.4–13.8 million104,697139,0731.6382.3
2076projection10,784,1237.3–13.8 million103,963139,0301.6382.4
2077projection10,754,3627.2–13.8 million102,996138,7361.6382.6
2078projection10,723,5547.1–13.9 million102,102138,3701.6382.7
2079projection10,692,9277.0–13.9 million101,346137,8191.6382.8
2080projection10,661,0356.9–14.0 million100,453137,1311.6383.0
2081projection10,628,6926.9–14.0 million99,644136,2321.6383.1
2082projection10,596,4316.8–14.0 million98,766135,3571.6383.3
2083projection10,564,5026.7–14.1 million97,912134,3401.6383.4
2084projection10,533,4816.7–14.2 million97,228133,2401.6383.5
2085projection10,502,2466.6–14.2 million96,459132,1591.6383.7
2086projection10,471,0646.5–14.3 million95,799131,2731.6383.8
2087projection10,440,6546.4–14.4 million95,140130,2591.6383.9
2088projection10,410,0726.4–14.4 million94,554129,3561.6384.0
2089projection10,380,1586.3–14.5 million93,939128,7561.6384.2
2090projection10,350,2196.2–14.6 million93,508128,2361.6384.3
2091projection10,320,0066.1–14.6 million93,139127,8351.6384.4
2092projection10,290,2886.0–14.7 million92,836127,6771.6384.5
2093projection10,260,3936.0–14.8 million92,541127,6991.6284.7
2094projection10,230,0865.9–14.8 million92,262127,8781.6284.8
2095projection10,199,3855.8–14.9 million92,131128,0711.6284.9
2096projection10,168,0045.8–14.9 million91,992128,2981.6285.1
2097projection10,136,8575.7–14.9 million91,793128,6891.6285.2
2098projection10,104,8135.7–14.9 million91,737128,9541.6285.3
2099projection10,071,8805.6–15.0 million91,437129,1281.6285.5
2100projection10,038,4555.5–15.1 million91,257129,3171.6285.6
Show the numbers: Azerbaijan, mid-2026, by single year of age
Azerbaijan: population by single year of age, mid-2026
AgeMaleFemale
062,26656,371
162,76856,626
263,86457,410
365,69458,860
468,41261,082
571,91263,993
676,56267,896
773,05665,290
870,57464,115
977,48270,570
1083,53075,946
1188,03079,843
1289,14680,660
1389,65380,949
1489,49680,411
1590,27481,018
1690,02380,973
1786,12677,600
1883,09474,781
1981,21772,858
2080,52672,144
2178,34670,136
2272,95065,465
2368,32461,514
2465,75860,090
2565,72261,926
2667,52664,951
2766,93365,573
2867,32867,505
2971,60473,626
3076,97381,028
3181,93887,381
3284,46390,756
3386,50093,294
3489,48096,262
3593,516100,302
3695,316101,880
3792,36698,224
3889,47294,316
3988,03292,252
4087,10391,558
4184,62288,699
4280,33083,736
4376,32079,322
4474,25876,660
4574,69677,044
4672,50975,040
4766,95369,676
4862,75665,788
4960,76664,428
5059,50464,317
5156,76462,336
5253,72659,780
5352,95159,520
5453,87860,668
5556,73564,077
5657,35866,096
5755,50865,661
5853,95364,496
5952,84063,522
6053,94765,480
6153,82065,767
6252,46664,542
6351,42163,837
6450,54062,568
6550,77062,424
6648,51360,471
6743,08254,900
6837,95449,165
6933,95945,168
7030,29441,270
7126,80636,541
7222,93731,522
7319,91627,800
7418,10425,222
7516,60823,118
7614,41820,709
7711,66317,710
789,58215,358
797,35512,514
804,9648,954
813,3426,191
822,7085,096
832,8905,842
843,2446,768
853,3667,190
863,0626,750
872,6186,123
882,2105,352
891,7334,258
901,2733,208
918812,170
925961,469
934201,091
94272706
95188510
96128353
9774202
9840121
992060
100+2074

AZE · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Azerbaijan, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AZE · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Azerbaijan

On the UN's projection, Azerbaijan will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2039: 7,553,140 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 7,186,120.

100 aged 15–64
32 children
12 aged 65+

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 43 years: 2003–2045.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

AZE · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Azerbaijan, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Azerbaijan loses 11,640 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 2,348 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 500 people a year
020406080+

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 42,667 (1996); its biggest loss, 101,986 (1989).

In 2024, 218,460 people living in Azerbaijan had been born in another country, 2 of every 100 people there, against 6 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

AZE · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Azerbaijan

Of every 100 babies born in Azerbaijan in 2023, 10 had a mother under 20, 82 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 8 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 20 aged 35 or older.

1950
7 · 73 · 20
2023
10 · 82 · 8
2050 · projected
3 · 75 · 22

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023
125,136
Average age when women have a baby
25.9 years
30.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19
35
42 in 1950
Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100
Babies born in Azerbaijan by the mother's age
Mother's age19501975200020232050 projected2100 projected
10–14588910252011
15–198,3376,99812,49912,0672,9421,396
20–2433,19256,87148,04740,93616,7249,780
25–2931,75641,41734,43738,33933,66026,903
30–3420,25719,73119,01923,10836,35532,049
35–3914,81823,7098,3958,79521,15916,911
40–447,1528,3401,9661,7494,5923,876
45–491,8861,2259297292326
50–5410563132085
All babies117,561158,443124,478125,136115,75291,257

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

AZE · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Azerbaijan

A baby born in Azerbaijan in 2021 could expect 72.9 years of life, 64.0 of them in full health (95% range 63.4–64.8). That leaves 8.9 years in less than full health, fewer than the world's 9.5, even though lives here are longer than the world's 71.4 years.

Women

65.0 in full health, 10.2 not: 75.2 years

Men

63.0 in full health, 7.5 not: 70.5 years

a year in full health   a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 65.0 healthy years of 75.2. Men: 63.0 of 70.5. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 66.6.

AZE · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Azerbaijan

At the end of 2025, 657,155 people were displaced inside Azerbaijan, about 63 of every 1,000 people living there.

  1. hosted from abroad6,588
  2. displaced inside it657,155
  3. Azerbaijan nationals abroad137,225

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 20,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Azerbaijan living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 29 people asked for asylum in Azerbaijan for the first time; 3,274 people from Azerbaijan asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Azerbaijan whose claims were decided that year, 16 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

AZE · of every 100 people

How people live in Azerbaijan

Of every 100 people in Azerbaijan in 2025, 41 lived in a city, 38 in a town or suburb and 21 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 9.6 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

AZE · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Azerbaijan went in school

Almost every adult in Azerbaijan went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 89 finished upper secondary or went further.

1 finished primary 10 finished lower secondary 71 finished upper secondary 18 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2035; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2040.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

AZE · cities · 2025

Cities in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan had 22 cities in 2025, home to 4.3 million people. The largest, Baku, holds 19 of every 100 people in Azerbaijan.

  1. Baku1,977,897
  2. Sumgayit422,836
  3. Ganja386,822
  4. Nakhchivan161,919
  5. Mingachevir136,103
  6. Lankaran126,447
  7. Şirvan101,347
  8. Saray93,904
  9. Sheki84,815
  10. Cəlilabad69,177

How to read this: the 10 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Azerbaijan are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.