BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 20
By Ilhama Isabalayeva - Trend:
From January through November 2019, the number of Azerbaijani citizens visiting foreign countries increased by 14.1 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching 5 million people, Trend reports referring to Azerbaijan’s State Statistics Committee Dec. 20.
So, 36.7 percent of Azerbaijani citizens visited Iran, 28.7 percent - Georgia, 17.6 percent - Russia, 11.5 percent – Turkey and 5.5 percent visited other countries.
Among the visitors, 64 percent were men and 36 percent - women.
During this period, the number of Azerbaijani citizens traveling to Iran increased by 25.5 percent, to Georgia - by 12.7 percent, to Russia - by 6.2 percent and to Turkey - by 4.5 percent.
Some 82.5 percent of Azerbaijani citizens who visited foreign countries from January through November this year used rail and road transport, 16.8 percent – air transport and 0.7 percent – maritime transport.