The population of Azerbaijan will reach ten million people in late March - early April, Chairman of the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan Tahir Budagov told journalists within the framework of the presentation of the project "EU Support for the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan to achieve European standards" on February 22.
Budagov said that these forecasts are made based on calculations of the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan.
Note that the population of Azerbaijan as of January 1, 2019, reached 9,981,457 people.
As many as 52.8 percent of the total population lives in cities, 47.2 percent in villages, 49.9 percent are men, 50.1 percent are women.
The population density is 115 people per square kilometre.