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Azerbaijan according to the UN report ranks 17th by the amount of people leaving the country, said Presidential candidate, leader of the Democratic Party Sardar Jalaloglu during the first televised debate in the frameworks of the election campaign.

As Azerbaijani agency "Turan" reports, Jalaloglu noted that the Azerbaijanis have reached even Australia, and the farthest outskirts of Russia. Azerbaijanis live, even in places where there are no Russians. The reason for that are the poor socio-economic status, and the lack of rule of law.

"My main goal is to create a social and legal state," Jalaloghlu said.

According to a nationwide survey held by “ADAM” sociological service in Azerbaijan, more than 62% of the population wants to leave the country permanently or temporarily.

In search of work the Azerbaijani citizens mainly migrate to Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Kazakhstan and other countries. Thus, the number of Azerbaijanis in Russia in the period between the censuses held in 1989 and 2010 almost doubled. At the same time, the experts believe that the official census does not reflect the real picture and the total number of Azerbaijanis in Russia is approximately 2.5 million. It is noteworthy that on 5 July 2012 the head of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Diaspora Nazim Ibrahimov stated that 2.5 million Azerbaijanis live in Russia. Accordingly, the population of Azerbaijan, the official statistics of which practically does not take into consideration the migration, is less with at least 2.5 million people.