According to the data of Narkhozuchet (the national economic accounting agency) and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Armenian SSR, 25,000 Azerbaijani families, or about 110,000 people, lived in Armenia before the resettlement in 1948. Of these, only 9,000 families, or 35,000 people lived in lowland regions, the remaining 75,000 inhabiting mountainous regions of the Armenian SSR.