Baku, Azerbaijan, April 24
By Ilhame Isabalayeva - Trend:
In January-March, 629,400 stateless persons and foreigners arrived in Azerbaijan from 151 countries. The figure is more by 12.4 percent compared to the same period of 2017, Azerbaijan's State Statistics Committee said in a message.
According to the Statistics Committee, out of the total number of visitors, 27.4 percent accounted for citizens of the Russian Federation, 22.1 percent - for Georgia, 15.8 percent - for Iran, 11.6 percent - for Turkey, 4.7 percent - for United Arab Emirates, 1.9 percent - for Ukraine, 1.8 percent - for Iraq, 14.6 percent - for other countries, and 0.1 percent - for stateless persons.
Among them 67.9 percent are men and 32.1 percent are women.
Out of the total number of stateless persons visiting Azerbaijan, 29.6 percent came to the country in January, 26.4 percent - in February and 44 percent - in March.
In March 25.8 percent of those who came to Azerbaijan were Iranian citizens (an increase of 4.6 percent compared to March 2017).
The country recorded a rise in the number of visitors from the Gulf countries. Compared to January-March 2017, the number of Kuwaiti citizens visiting Azerbaijan increased by 7.1 percent, Bahrain and Qatar - by 2.7 percent each, Saudi citizens - 2.4 percent, Omani citizens -1.9 percent, Iraqi citizens - 1.7 percent, UAE citizens - 1.3 percent.
The number of visiting Iranian citizens decreased by 6.4 percent.
In January-March 2018, the number of visitors from the EU states decreased by 4.1 percent to 18,600, while the number of arrivals from the CIS countries increased by 6.7 percent to 204,400.
The State Statistics Committee said 63.3 percent of visiting foreigners and stateless persons used railway and automobile transport, 35.9 percent - air transport and 0.8 percent - sea transport.