They introduced new measures of recording population counts in 1874. For instance, many times “Anatolia” is equalled with the Ottoman Empire. Because of the lack of control of the Turkish authorities for farther provinces, it was impossible for him to complete his work. [6], The British official figures at the embassy relied upon careful investigations like those of Lynch. [3], The first official census (1881–93) took 10 years to finish. In 1867, the Council of States took charge of drawing population tables, increasing the precision of population records. A27493, October 4, 1916. En 1867 le nombre restait le même. The official data derived from extending the taxation values to the total population. The problem with such figures is that they do not cover the same regions. »[23]. The first record of the General Population Administration under sultan Abdul Hamid was half the figure in 1881–82. Ces chiffres excluaient cependant les régions peu peuplées d'Arméniens et les régions hors des six vilayets. Des enregistrements turcs suggèrent aussi qu'Abdülhamid II ait intentionnellement sous-estimé la population arménienne. La population arménienne se caractérise par une grande homogénéité ethnique. The Ottoman Empire lost Batumi, Kars and Ardahan in 1877–78. Il répond sept ; mais le commissaire avait dit quatre. À cela s'ajoute encore les Arméniens qui réussissaient à se soustraire aux recensement, pour échapper au service militaire notamment. Raymond H. Kevorkian et Paul B. Paboudjian, "Armenian massacres" (2006). H.F.B. Du 18 août au 10 septembre la population arménienne de la région est massacrée. Les victimes des massacres et des famines se chiffrèrent à environ deux millions. Arnold Toynbee propose une fourchette entre 1,6 et 2 millions d'Arméniens, supposant que le nombre réel est plus proche de 2 millions pour l'Anatolie[21]. There was no official census in 1914, contrary to some sources, but a mere approximation of figures taken from the 1905-06 Ottoman census based on official yearly birth and date figures (leaving villages unreported) along with a religious grouping as opposed to an ethnic one, equating all Muslims in one single column and undercounting native Christian population growth rates, because of the Ottoman Court's deliberate omission of the Ecclesiastical statistics, which included actual denominational baptism and death rates. Les limitations imposées par les autorités ottomanes ne lui ont pas permis de mener des recherches concluantes. [2], As a result of the substantial territorial losses in Europe suffered during the Balkan wars, the total population of the empire fell to 18,520,016, of whom an even larger percentage than before, 15,044,846, was counted as Muslim, with 1,729,738 as Greek Orthodox, 1,161,169 as Armenian Gregorian, 187,073 as Jewish, 62,468 as Greek Catholic, 68,838 as Armenian Catholic, and 65,844 as Protestant. La population arménienne en 1914 était de 1 800 000. Voilà les chiffres de la population arménienne au premier recensement soviétique en 1926. Le résultat de tous ces éléments est que les statistiques officielles ottomanes, selon les spécialistes qui les critiquent, sous-estiment largement la population arménienne, pouvant aller jusqu'à la diminuer de moitié. Il ne s'agissait pas d'un recensement complet des populations, mais un recensement des « chefs de famille », c'est-à-dire uniquement de la population masculine adulte par foyer. This is to be between two and three million.”[20], Official Population Statistics (published 1914), Arguments of Armenian population controversy. [3], Population statistics of the Ottoman state in the year 1914 in Istanbul, 1919, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1914_population_statistics_for_the_Ottoman_Empire&oldid=967342413, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 July 2020, at 17:57. Another source was used for the numbers of landlords of households in the Ottoman Empire – every household was assumed to have 5 residents. 233.The Distribution of the Armenian Population in Caucasia, 1914: 234. Just for comparison, the Patriarchate Statistics of Armenians residing in the six vilayets (known as Ottoman Armenia) reported 1,018,000 Armenians against 784,914 for the Ottoman figures. Ces changements ont pu amener à politiser les recensements de population. Accédée le 12 juillet 2006, Mouvement de libération nationale arménien, Empire ottoman dans la Première Guerre mondiale, Histoire des Arméniens dans l'Empire ottoman, Rafle des intellectuels arméniens du 24 avril 1915, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Population_arménienne_ottomane&oldid=147915554. Afin d'améliorer la précision de ses recensements, l'office fut décentralisée en 1839. Other times there are partial statistics representing one region, like Turkish Armenia, Ottoman Armenia, Asiatic Turkey, Anatolia, Ottoman Empire, 6 Armenian Villeyets, 9 Armenian Villeyets etc. Ankara: T.C. Function: view, Nouvelle analyse des chiffres du patriarcat, Hilmar Kaiser, a German expert on the Armenian genocide, also criticizes McCarthy's calculation techniques in an interview with Dirk van Delft published in the. Il y est dit que les chiffres étaient supposés reposer sur les enregistrements des baptêmes et des décès tenus par l'Église arménienne. Line: 315 In 1992, Raymond H. Kevorkian and Paul B. Paboudjian published a book containing figures drawn from the Armenian Archives and based on the archives of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, ranging from February 1913 to August 1914, that contains the figures for each Ottoman province in detail.