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{{Infobox ethnic group
|group    = Azerbaijanis in Kazakhstan <br/>''Qazaxıstan azərbaycanlıları''</small>
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|poptime  = '''85,292''' <small>(Census 2009)<ref name="Kazakh Demographics">[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php Ethnic Composition of Kazakhstan] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316172713/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php |date=March 16, 2010 }} (2009 census) . Retrieved 18 August 2013.</ref>
|popplace = [[Astana]]{{•}}[[Almaty]]{{•}}[[Merki]]
|langs    = [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]]{{•}}[[Kazakh language|Kazakh]]{{•}}[[Russian language|Russian]]
| rels    = Predominately [[Shia Islam]]
|}} 

{{Azerbaijanis}}
'''Azerbaijanis in Kazakhstan''' ({{lang-az|Qazaxıstan azərbaycanlıları}}) are part of the [[Azerbaijani diaspora]]. They are [[Kazakhstan|Kazakh]] citizens and permanent residents of ethnic [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] background. According to the [[Demographics of Kazakhstan|2009 census]], there were 85,292 ethnic Azerbaijanis living in Kazakhstan;<ref name="Kazakh Demographics" /> Azerbaijanis comprised 0.5% of Kazakhstan's population and were the country's tenth-largest ethnic minority.<ref name="Kazakh Demographics" /> Most Azerbaijani-Kazakhs have immigrated to Kazakhstan from the [[Republic of Azerbaijan]]; a small group of [[Iranian Azerbaijanis]] trapped by the [[Bolshevik]] taking of power in 1918 were also forced into Kazakhstan in 1938.<ref>http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/304222</ref><ref>http://www.hawzah.net/fa/magazine/magart/0/4194/26561</ref><ref>http://www.ahl-ul-bayt.org/fa.php/page,3331A43442.html</ref>

{|class="wikitable" style="float: font-size:100%;"
|- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
| colspan=8 align="center" | Azerbaijanis in Kazakhstan according to official censuses
|- bgcolor=#f0f0f0 align="center"
! Census
! Azerbaijanis
! % of Kazakh population
|-
| 1939 || 12,996<ref>{{cite web |author=Демоскоп Weekly|title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php?reg=10|accessdate=2011-02-13}}</ref> || 0.2%
|-
| 1959 || 38,362<ref>{{cite web |author=Демоскоп Weekly|title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_59.php?reg=91|accessdate=2011-02-13}}</ref> || 0.4%
|-
| 1970 || 56,166<ref>{{cite web |author=Демоскоп Weekly|title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_70.php?reg=5|accessdate=2011-02-13}}</ref> || 0.4%
|-
| 1979 || 73,345<ref>{{cite web |author=Демоскоп Weekly|title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_79.php?reg=5|accessdate=2011-02-13}}</ref> || 0.5%
|-
| 1989 || 90,083<ref>{{cite web |author=Демоскоп Weekly|title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php?reg=5|accessdate=2011-02-13}}</ref> || 0.5%
|-
| 1999 || 78,325<ref name=Kazakh2009census>{{cite web |author=Агентство РК по статистике|title=ПЕРЕПИСЬ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ КАЗАХСТАН 2009 ГОДА|url=http://www.stat.kz/p_perepis/Documents/Перепись%20рус.pdf|page=10|accessdate=2011-02-13}}</ref> || 0.5%
|-
| 2009 || 85,292<ref name=Kazakh2009census/> || 0.5%
|}

==See also==
* [[Azerbaijan–Kazakhstan relations]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
{{Azerbaijani diaspora}}
{{Ethnic groups in Kazakhstan}}
{{Kazakhstan topics}}

[[Category:Azerbaijani diaspora]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Kazakhstan]]