Azerbaijani population growing

/AzerNews/

By Amina Nazarli

Azerbaijan’s population has increased by 97,200 people or about one percent since early 2014 to November 1 reaching 9,574,300 people, according to the State Statistics Committee.

The density of population in Azerbaijan is 111 people per square kilometer. The ratio is 1,000 men to 1,011 women. The share of urban population is 53.2 percent, whilst the rural population stands at 46.8 percent.

Based on the statistics for the nine months of 2014, a total of 142,600 children were born in Azerbaijan, 53.6 percent of them were boys and 46.4 percent, girls. During the January-August, there were registered 46,200 deaths.