Another problem with the figures is that those numbers were drawn from a period of about 20 to 30 years , mostly from 1890 to 1915 . German official figures representing the Armenian population within the Empire were about 1.9 million to 2 million . side of 1.8 million . Ludovic de Contenson , present the figure of 1,150,000 for Asiatic Turkey , and call them “ statistics ” without any sources . His numbers suggest that they might actually be the Ottoman census statistics , without correction . Another problem arises , and it is the fact that the Ottoman census statistics have maintained constant increase for the Armenian population from the period where between 1894 – 1897 , an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 Armenians lost their lives during the Hamidian massacres . While the minimum in the range represent the Armenian increases of population over years , the 1905 census has n't shown any anomaly of Armenian increases , which suggest that there might have been a fixed quota of Armenian population , and that regardless of the census , there were much more Armenians within the Empire . Another element that add , is that many Armenians , like many Jews and Christians , were considered as foreigners , because they had foreign nationalities or enjoyed the protection of foreign consulates and those for were not counted in those census statistics
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Ottoman Armenian population