 In 1880, the population of the Udi people living in the area around Qabala in northern Azerbaijan was estimated at 10,000.In the year 1897, the number of the Udi people was given around 4.000, in 1910, it was around 5.900.They were counted as 2.500 in the census of 1926, as 3.700 in 1959, as 7.000 in 1979, and in 1989, the Udi people numbered 8.652.