Editing Tbilisi (section)

== Demographics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Kartvelian speakers<ref name="1897census">{{in lang|ru}} [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=525 Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322113508/http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=525|date=22 March 2021}}. Изд. Центр. стат. комитета МВД: Тифлисская губерния.&nbsp;– St. Petersburg, 1905, pp. 74—75.(''Note'': The census did not contain a question on ethnicity, which was deduced from data on mother tongue, social estate and occupation)[https://books.google.com/books?id=UMIB-FlHjs0C&pg=PA29] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324152749/https://books.google.com/books?id=UMIB-FlHjs0C&pg=PA29|date=24 March 2021}}</ref>
! %
! Armenian speakers{{sfn|Кавказский календарь на 1907 год||pp=128-129}}
! %
! Russian speakers
! %
! Total population
|-
| 1897
| 42,206{{efn|Denotes the number of native speakers of [[Kartvelian languages]].}}
| 26.4%
| 47,133{{efn|Denotes the number of native speakers of [[Armenian language|Armenian]]; the number of [[Armenian Apostolic]]s and [[Armenian Catholics]] was 50,801 or 31.8%.}}
| 29.5%
| 44,823
| 28.1%
! 159,590
|-
| 1916<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/417322 |title=Кавказский календарь на 1917 год |publisher=Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom |year=1917 |edition=72nd |publication-place=Tiflis |pages=206–213 |language=Russian |trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1917 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104233151/https://www.prlib.ru/item/417322 |archive-date=4 November 2021}}</ref>
| 37,584
| 10.8%
| 149,294
| 43.1%
| 91,997
| 26.5%
! 346,766
|-
| 1926<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
| 112,014
| 38.1%
| 100,148
| 34.1%
| 45,937
| 15.6%
! 294,044
|-
| 1939<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
| 228,394
| 44%
| 137,331
| 26.4%
| 93,337
| 18%
! 519,220
|-
| 1959<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
| 336,257
| 48.4%
| 149,258
| 21.5%
| 125,674
| 18.1%
! 694,664
|-
| 1970<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
| 511,379
| 57.5%
| 150,205
| 16.9%
| 124,316
| 14%
! 889,020
|-
| 1979<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
| 653,242
| 62.1%
| 152,767
| 14.5%
| 129,122
| 12.3%
! 1,052,734
|-
| 1989<ref>{{cite web|title=Ethnic composition of Georgia 1989|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/georgia-ethnic1989.htm|access-date=2022-01-03|website=pop-stat.mashke.org|archive-date=22 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122100743/http://pop-stat.mashke.org/georgia-ethnic1989.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
| 824,412
| 66.1%
| 150,138
| 12.0%
| 124,867
| 10.0%
! 1,246,936
|-
| 2002<ref name="statistics2002">{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.ge//_files/english/census/2002/Ethnic%20groups.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091114005707/http://www.statistics.ge//_files/english/census/2002/Ethnic%20groups.pdf |archive-date=14 November 2009 |title=Ethnic groups by major administrative-territorial units |date=14 November 2009 |access-date=19 December 2012}}</ref>
| 910,712
| 84.2%
| 82,586
| 7.6%
| 32,580
| 3.0%
! 1,081,679
|-
| 2014<ref name="Census 2014">{{Georgian census 2014}}</ref>
| 996,804
| 89.9%
| 53,409
| 4.8%
| 13,350
| 1.2%
! 1,108,717
|}

As a multiethnic city, Tbilisi is home to more than 100 [[ethnic]] groups. Around 90% of the population consists of ethnic [[Georgians]], with significant populations of [[Armenians in Tbilisi|Armenians]], [[Russians]], and [[Azerbaijanis]]. Along with the above-mentioned groups, Tbilisi is home to other ethnic groups including [[Ossetians]], [[Abkhazians]], [[Ukrainians]], [[Greeks]], [[Jews]], [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]], [[Yazidis]], and others.<ref name="Ronald Grigor Suny 1994 116"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name=tiflis/><ref name="Suny1994"/><ref name="statistics2002"/>

=== Religion ===
[[File:Sameba Cathedral, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Dusk, Tbilisi, Georgia.jpg|thumb|left|Sameba Cathedral]]

More than 95% of the residents of Tbilisi practise some form of Christianity, the majority being followers of the [[Georgian Orthodox Church]]. The [[Russian Orthodox Church]] and the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]] also have significant communities in the city. About 1.5% of the population identifies as [[Muslim]], primarily of the [[Shia Islam|Shia]] branch, while approximately 0.1% practise [[Judaism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geostat.ge/index.php?action=page&p_id=2153&lang=eng|title=GeoStat.Ge|website=geostat.ge|access-date=2017-01-31|archive-date=19 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919222412/http://www.geostat.ge/index.php?action=page&p_id=2153&lang=eng|url-status=live}}</ref> The city is also home to a [[Roman Catholic]] community and a [[Yazidism|Yazidi]] minority, who worship at the [[Sultan Ezid Temple]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.georgianholidays.com/sights/churches-in-tbilisi/saint-peter-and-paul-catholic-church|title=Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church|website=georgianholidays.com|access-date=2017-01-31|archive-date=23 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223200142/http://www.georgianholidays.com/sights/churches-in-tbilisi/saint-peter-and-paul-catholic-church|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.rudaw.net/english/world/180620152|title=Yezidis of Georgia celebrate new temple in Tbilisi|newspaper=Rudaw|access-date=2017-01-31|archive-date=22 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322113514/http://www.rudaw.net/english/world/180620152|url-status=live}}</ref>