Azerbaijan to take national census in 2019
President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on September 7 ordering the conduct of a national census in Azerbaijan in 2019, Azertac reported.
Under the decree, the census will be taken from October 1 to 10.
The current demographic situation in Azerbaijan is positive, while the population size of the country is expected to reach 12 million people by 2050.
The Labor and Social Protection Ministry recently reported that population of the country has grown by 18 percent since 2003. The current figure reaches 9,755,000.
Birth rate in the country was at the level of 14 children in a thousand, while the figure increased up to 17 in 2015.
Life expectancy rate stood at 72.3 years in 2003 (69.5 for men and 75.1 for women), while the figure increase up to 75.2 (72.7 for men and 77.6 for women) in 2015.
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