Vital Caspian Graphics 2

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Changing population profile

Infant mortality per region, district or oblast

Kazakhstan

ATYRAU

ARAL SEA

Russia

Atyrau

ASTRAKHAN

Astrakhan

KALMYKIA

T he combination of pollution and a deteriorating public health system causes concern for the health of many people living around the Caspian Sea. Socio-political and economic changes in the former Soviet countries are largely to blame.

MANGHISTAU

Uzbekistan

Aktau

CASPIAN SEA

Georgia

DAGHESTAN

GUBA-KHACHMAZ ABSHERON

Azerbaijan

Turkmenbashi

Armenia

Turkmenistan

Baku

CENTRALARAN

BALKAN

Cheleken

Infant mortality in Eastern Azerbaijan, 2008

LENKARAN

GILAN

Russia

GULISTAN

Rasht

Gorgan

Iran

CASPIAN SEA

Apart from two large urban areas – Baku- Sumgait and Makhachkala-Kaspisk – and the Iranian coast on the southern shore, a very densely populated coastal strip where one agglomeration leads into the next, most of the population living on the shores of the Caspian is rural, with strong religious and family traditions actively maintained. Some cities such as Baku have experienced very rapid urbanisation. In the early 1900s Baku was a city of 248 300 inhabitants, whereas the population now stands at about 2 million. It is consequently not surprising that several countries and provinces – Iran, Daghestan, Turkmenistan and parts of Azerbaijan – still

Sari

MAZANDARAN

Turkey

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Azerbaijan

Children dying under one year of age per 1 000 live births

rate

20041 2007 2007 2003 2007 2007 2007 2001 year

Children dying under one year of age per 1,000 live births

Iran Azerbaijan Daghestan Kalmykia Astrakhan Atyrau Manghistau Balkan

12 12

less 12

18 to 30 14 to 18 10 to 14 5 to 10

14,5 13,9 12,6

12 - 20

20 - 25

22 28 28

MAP BY PHILIPPE REKACEWICZ AND CECILE MARIN - APRIL 2006 Updated in September 2010 Sources: National statistic offices, figures for 2001, 2004 and 2007.

25 - 30* * Old data

Data not available

Source: State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan.

Iran

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