11:56 - 16.10.2026

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October 16, Fineko/abc.az. The number of young people aged 14-29 in Azerbaijan has decreased by 507,500 people, or close to 18%, over the past 16 years.

If at the beginning of 2010 there were 2.825 million young people in the country, by the beginning of 2026 their number lowered to 2.318 million people.

However, the number of young people has increased slightly over the past year. At the beginning of 2025, it reached 2.3 million people, and by the beginning of 2026 grew by 17,500 people.

Currently, young people make up 22.6% of the Azerbaijani population. Of the total number of young people, 1.221 million are men and 1.96 million are women.

The data indicates a change in the age structure of the country's population in the long term. The dynamics of the youth population is important for the development of the labor market, the education system and the consumer market.