Demographics
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| Year | Armenians | % | Azeris | % | Others 1 | % | TOTAL |
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| 1828 |
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44.7 |
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55.3 | 3,656 | ||
| 1831 | 13,3424 | 43.7 | 17,1383 | 56.1 |
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1.2 | 30,507 |
| 1896 | 36,671 | 42.2 | 49,425 | 56.9 | 583 | 0.7 | 86,878 |
| 18975 | 34,672 | 34.4 | 64,151 | 63.7 | 1,948 | 1.9 | 100,771 |
| 1917 | 53,900 | 40 | 81,1003 | 60 | 135,000 | ||
| 1926 | 11,276 | 10.8 | 88,433 | 84.3 | 4,947 | 4.7 | 104,656 |
| 1939 | 13,350 | 10.5 | 108,529 | 85.7 | 4,817 | 126,696 | |
| 1959 | 9,519 | 6.7 | 127,508 | 90.2 | 4,334 | 3.1 | 141,361 |
| 1970 | 5,828 | 2.9 | 189,679 | 93.8 |
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3.3 | 202,187 |
| 1979 | 3,406 | 1.4 |
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95.6 | 7,085 | 2.9 | 240,459 |
| 1989 | 1,858 | 0.6 |
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95.9 | 10,210 | 3.5 | 293,875 |
| 1999 | 17 | 0 |
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99.6 | 3,249 | 0.9 | 354,072 |
| 2009 | 6 | 0 | 396,709 | 99.6 | 1,608 | 0.4 | 398,323 |
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As of 1 December 2011, Nakhchivan's population was estimated to be 417,692. Most of the population are Azerbaijanis, who constituted 99% of the population in 1999, while ethnic Russians (0.15%) and a minority of Kurds (0.6%) constituted the remainder of the population.
The 1990s and 2000s (decade) saw a large outflow of the Azerbaijani population into Turkey and Azerbaijan proper, due to the economic hardship of the post-Soviet era as well as Nakhichevan's geographical separation from the rest of Azerbaijan.
The Kurds of Nakhchivan are mainly found in the districts of Sadarak and Teyvaz. The remaining Armenians were expelled by Azerbaijani forces during the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh as part of the forceful exchange of population between Armenia and Azerbaijan. According to a 1932 Soviet estimate, 85% of the area was rural, while only 15% was urban. This urban percentage increased to 18% by 1939 and 27% by 1959. As of 2011, 122,069 people of Nakhchivan's population 414,900 live in urban areas, making the urban percentage 29.4% in 2011.
Nakhchivan enjoys a very high HDI and has quite well socio-economic condition: according to what the Cabinet of Ministers of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic via the official bulletin of Nakhchivan Sharg Gapisi (Şərq Qapısı) announced in their onset of 2012 report, in 2011: the Gross National Income of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic at Purchasing Power Parity was roughly $10,988 per capita; Mean Years of Schooling was 10.625 years; Expected Years of Schooling was 17 years; and Life expectancy at birth was 76 years (73.1 years for male and 78.9 years for female). Using these, in 2011: Income Index of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic was 0.648, Education Index thereof was 0.857, and Life Expectancy Index was 0.899, which, altogether, makes the Human Development Index of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in 2011 slightly over 0.793, a developed entry. Were it a sovereign state, Nakhchivan would be the second most developed country in the whole Southeastern Europe, only behind Croatia.
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