Alvar, Armenia

Some of the ancestors of the village population emigrated from Western Armenia in 1828-1830. The village was mostly populated by Azerbaijanis. In 1988-1989, during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, local Azeris moved to Azerbaijan, and Armenian families resettled in the village.^[2]

The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported the community's population was 168 in 2010,^[3] up from 147 at the 2001 census.^[4] As of January 2013, the villages' population is 243.^[2]

The population of the village since 1886 is as follows:^[5]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1886	348	—
1931	468	+0.66%
1959	366	−0.87%
1970	528	+3.39%
1979	630	+1.98%
1989	154	−13.14%
2001	147	−0.39%
2011	140	−0.49%
2013	243	+31.75%
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Source: [5]