Baku / 23.01.19 / Turan: In 2018, almost 2 million 850 thousand foreigners and stateless persons from 196 countries of the world arrived in Azerbaijan, announced today the State Statistics Committee, referring to the State Border Service of Azerbaijan.
This is by 5.7% more foreigners and stateless persons than in 2017; 30.9 percent foreigners arrived from the Russian Federation, 21.4 percent. - Georgia, 10.2 percent. - Turkey, 8.5 percent. - Iran.
The remaining 9 percent arrived from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Ukraine, Israel and other counties.
The highest increase in the number of touristsis from the Gulf countries.
In 2018, by 2.2 times more tourists arrived from Saudi Arabia than in 2017, from Bahrain - by 2 times, Kuwait - by 1.8 times, Qatar - by1.6 times.
The number of visitors from India, Egypt, Turkmenistan, South Korea increased from 1.5 to 2.7 times.
In 2018, 4 million 908 thousand people traveled from Azerbaijan to foreign countries, which is by19.5 percentmore than it was in 2017.
33, 6 percentof Azerbaijani residents went to Iran, 29.2 percent. - Georgia, 18.9 percent. - RF, 12.3 percent. - Turkey.
The number of Azerbaijanis leaving for Iran increased by 71.8 percent, Georgia -4.2 percent. - 05d06--
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