Armenian population by country


populations exist throughout the world. Although the Armenian diaspora existed since ancient times, most of the Armenians living outside of the Republic of Armenia are descendants of the Armenian Genocide survivors or recent immigrants from Armenia. According to estimates, the total number of Armenians in the world is 7 to 9 million, with less than half living in Armenia and in the self-proclaimed de facto independent Artsakh Republic.
The table below lists countries and territories where at least few Armenians live and their number according to official data and estimations by various organizations and media.

Limitations

Estimations may vary greatly because no reliable data are available for some countries. In France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Greece, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, among many other countries, ethnicity has not been enumerated during recent population censuses and it is virtually impossible to determine the actual number of ethnic Armenians living there. Although, data for people of foreign origin is available for most European Union countries, but this does not present the whole picture and can hardly be taken as a source for the total number of Armenians, because in many countries, most prominently France, most Armenians are not from Armenia. Also, not all Armenian citizens and people born in Armenia are ethnic Armenians, but the overwhelming majority of them are as about 97.9% of the country's population is Armenian. For other countries, such as Russia, the official number of Armenians is believed, by many, to have been underrated, because many migrant workers live in the country.

Most recent data

Country/territoryEthnic Armenians
Ethnic Armenians
Ethnic Armenians
People born in Armenia
Citizens of Armenia
'
80,000
'

993
883
206 211
724 226
738
600
101 99
410 174
720 250
734 394
325 126
434
'807
793 900
700160 59
60010
400800
40021 103
500500400
350500
'378 300800
300300
300300
222 250300
200700112 74
20050010
228 20022048
150500156 135
150200
100110102
83103103 105
8080
80100
80100
7010046
696969
5050
4550
4050
30100
2530
37 1515
91010 9
81717 8
88
66
666
299 2
111
183 0

Historical

1911

, a scholar and the former Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, estimated the population of Christian Armenians by the dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church in his 1911 book The Church of Armenia. It is the most detailed population distribution estimates available prior to the Armenian Genocide. Robert Hewsen wrote that "Ormanian's figures appear moderate and reasonable, although this does not necessarily make them precise."
CountryArmenians
1,709,550
1,579,500
Persia83,400
United States50,000
Western Europe 21,000
Bulgaria20,000
Egypt15,500
Romania10,000
Austria-Hungary9,000
India & Indochina6,000
Dutch East Indies4,000
Greece1,000
Total3,508,950

1922

The United States Department of State summarized the populations of Armenians in a November 1922 document titled "Approximate number of Armenians in the world." Of the 3,004,000 Armenians, 817,873 were refugees from Turkey "based upon information furnished by the British Embassy, Constantinople, and by the agents of the Near East Relief Society, in 1921. The total given does not include the able-bodied Armenians, who are retained by the Kemalists, nor the women and children,—approximately 95,000,—according to the League of Nations-who have been forced to embrace Islam."
CountryArmenians
2,195,000
— Armenian SSR1,200,000
— Georgian SSR400,000
— Azeri SSR340,000
— Transcaspia30,000
— rest of Soviet Russia225,000
281,000
& 125,000
Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia104,000
Greece & Cyprus79,000
Persia50,000
Bulgaria46,000
Romania43,000
Central and Western Europe38,000
Egypt, Sudan and Abyssinia28,000
India, Java and 12,000
3,000
Total3,004,000

1966

The estimates by the Yerevan-based journal Hayreniki Dzayn, originally published on December 4, 1966, were cited by Richard Hrair Dekmejian in 1968 in the journal Soviet Studies and later by David Marshall Lang and Christopher J. Walker in 1976 in the entry on Armenians by the Minority Rights Group.
CountryArmenians
3,500,000
— Armenian SSR2,000,000
— Azerbaijani SSR560,000
— Georgian SSR550,000
— Russian SFSR330,000
— rest of USSR60,000
& 450,000
250,000
Iran200,000
200,000
180,000
Syria150,000
rest of the world570,000
Total5,500,000

Soviet republics (1926–1989)

Precise figures are available for the number of Armenians in the Soviet Union and its constituent republics because all censuses in the USSR enumerated people by ethnicity.
Republic192619391959197019791989
1,567,5682,152,8602,786,9123,559,1514,151,2414,623,232
Armenian SSR743,5711,061,9971,551,6102,208,3272,724,9753,083,616
Azerbaijan SSR282,004388,025442,089483,520475,486390,505
Georgian SSR313,741415,013442,916452,309448,000437,211
Russian SFSR195,410218,156255,978298,718364,570532,390
Uzbek SSR14,97620,39427,37034,47042,37450,537
Ukrainian SSR10,63121,68828,02433,43938,64654,200
Turkmen SSR13,85915,99619,69623,05426,60531,829
Kazakh SSR7,7779,28412,51814,02219,119
Tajik SSR1,2722,8783,7874,8615,651
Kirghiz SSR7281,9192,6883,2853,975
Byelorussian SSR991,8141,7512,3622,7514,933
Moldavian SSR1,2181,3361,9532,873
Latvian SSR1,0601,5111,9133,069
Lithuanian SSR4715089551,655
Estonian SSR6486048451,669

1986

Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Volume XIII, 1987
CountryArmenians
4,500,000
Armenian SSR2,755,000
Azerbaijani SSR475,000
Georgian SSR448,000
Russian SFSR365,000
Outside the USSR2,300,000
800,000
350,000
200,000
200,000
180,000
120,000
75,000
55,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
22,000
14,000
12,000
11,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,500
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,000
800
500
Total7,000,000

2012

Armenia Encyclopedia, 2012
CountryArmenians
2,250,000–2,500,000
1,000,000–1,500,000
500,000–600,000
250,000–400,000
130,000
92,000
80,000
70,000–80,000
70,000–80,000
70,000–80,000
65,000–70,000
70,000
60,000–65,000
50,000–60,000
50,000
50,000
45,000–80,000
35,000–40,000
30,000
30,000
25,000
21,000
20,000
20,000
18,000
15,000
12,000
10,000
10,000
8,500
5,000
5,000–6,000
5,000
4,000
3,500
2,000–4,000
3,000
3,000
3,000
3,000
3,000–3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,600
1,500
1,000
1,000
500–700
560
400
300
300
200
200
200
200
200
150
100
80
60
50–60
50–60
50
40
40
30
25
20
20
10