page_title: Race and ethnicity in censuses
section_title: Azerbaijan
hierarchical_section_title: Race and ethnicity in censuses / Asia / Azerbaijan
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethnographic map of Azerbaijan, 2003. created based on Ethnic map of Caucasus region from A. Tsutsayev's Atlas of Ethnopolitical Hisotry of the Caucasus, Moscow, 2007 (АТЛАС ЭТНОПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ КАВКАЗА, Цуциев А.А, Москва: Издательство «Европа», 2007)
context_page_description: Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics. Different countries have different classifications and census options for race and ethnicity/nationality which are not comparable with data from other countries. In addition, many of the race and ethnicity concepts that appear on national censuses worldwide have their origins in Europe or in the views of Europeans, rather than in the views of the locals of these countries.
context_section_description: People in Azerbaijan (when it was still a part of the Russian Empire) were enumerated by native tongue in the 1897 Russian Empire Census. In addition to the Soviet Union enumerating people by ethnicity for its entire existence, Azerbaijan also enumerated people by ethnicity in its post-Soviet censuses of 1999 and 2009.
caption: Ethnic composition of Azerbaijan in 2003.
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