Statistical information Azerbaijan 1992Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijan - Introduction 1992
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Background: Azerbaijan is plagued by an unresolved conflict with Armenian separatists over its Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Karabakh Armenians have declared independence and seized almost 20% of the country's territory, creating countless Azeri refugees in the process.


Azerbaijan - Geography 1992
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Location

Geographic coordinates

Map reference

Area
Total: 86,600 km²
Land:
86,100 km²; includes the Nakhichevan' Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast; region's autonomy was abolished by
Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet on 26 November 1991

Comparative: slightly larger than Maine

Land boundaries: 2,013 km total; Armenia (west) 566 km, Armenia (southwest) 221 km, Georgia 322 km, Iran (south) 432 km, Iran (southwest) 179 km, Russia 284 km, Turkey 9 km

Coastline: none - landlocked

Maritime claims: NA
Exclusive fishing zone: NA nm; Azerbaijani claims in Caspian Sea unknown; 10 nm fishing zone provided for in 1940 treaty regarding trade and navigation between Soviet Union and Iran
Disputes:
violent and longstanding dispute with Armenia over status of
Nagorno-Karabakh, lesser dispute concerns Nakhichevan'; some Azeris desire absorption of and/or unification with the ethnically Azeri portion of Iran; minor irredentist disputes along Georgia border


Climate: dry, semiarid steppe; subject to drought

Terrain:
large, flat Kura Lowland (much of it below sea level) with
Great Caucasus Mountains to the north, Karabakh Upland in west; Baku lies on
Aspheson Peninsula that juts into Caspian Sea


Elevation

Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, nonferrous metals, alumina
Land use

Land use: NA% arable land; NA% permanent crops; NA% meadows and pastures; NA% forest and woodland; NA% other; includes 70% of cultivated land irrigated (1.2 million hectares)

Irrigated land

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Azerbaijan - People 1992
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Population: 7,450,787 (July 1992), growth rate 1.6% (1992)

Nationality: noun - Azerbaijani(s; adjective - Azerbaijani

Ethnic groups:
Azeri 82.7%, Russian 5.6%, Armenian 5.6%, Daghestanis 3.2%, other 2.9%; note - Armenian share may be less than 5.6% because many
Armenians have fled the ethnic violence since 1989 census


Languages: Azeri 82%, Russian 7%, Armenian 5%, other 6%

Religions: Moslem 87%, Russian Orthodox 5.6%, Armenian Orthodox 5.6%, other 1.8%

Demographic profile
Age structure

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate

Birth rate: 26 births/1000 population (1992)

Death rate: 7 deaths/1000 population (1992)

Net migration rate: 3 migrants/1000 population (1992)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues:
local scientists consider Apsheron Peninsula, including
Baku and Sumgait, and the Caspian Sea to be "most ecologically devastated area in the world" because of severe air and water pollution

Current issues note: landlocked; major polluters are oil, gas, and chemical industries

Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 45 deaths/1000 live births (1992)

Life expectancy at birth: 65 years male, 73 years female (1992)

Total fertility rate: 2.9 children born/woman (1992)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

Literacy: NA% (male NA%, female NA%) age 15 and over can read and write (1992 est.)

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Azerbaijan - Government 1992
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Country name
Conventional long form: Azerbaijani Republic; short-form name: Azerbaijan

Government type: republic

Capital: Baku (Baky)

Administrative divisions:
1 autonomous republic (avtomnaya respublika),
Nakhichevan' (administrative center at Nakhichevan'); note - all rayons except for the exclave of Nakhichevan' are under direct republic jurisdiction;1 autonomous oblast, Nagorno-Karabakh (officially abolished by
Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet on 26 November 1991) has declared itself
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic


Dependent areas

Independence:
28 May 1918; on 28 April 1920, Azerbaijan became the
Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan; on 30 April 1992 it became the
Azerbaijani Republic; independence declared 30 August 1991


National holiday: NA

Constitution: adopted NA April 1978

Legal system: based on civil law system

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: universal at age 18
National Parliament:
last held NA September 1990 (next expected to be held late 1992); results - seats - (360 total) Communists 280, Democratic
Bloc 45 (grouping of opposition parties), other 15, vacant 20; note - these figures are approximate

President: held 8 September 1991 (next to be held 7 June 1992); results - Ebulfez ELCIBEY (6,390 unofficial)

Executive branch: president, Council of Ministers

Legislative branch: National Parliament (Milli Majlis) was formed on the basis of the National Council (Milli Shura)

Judicial branch: Supreme Court

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation: CIS, CSCE, IMF, OIC, UN, UNCTAD
Diplomatic representation: NA
US:
Ambassador (vacant); Robert MILES, Charge d'Affaires; Embassy at
Hotel Intourist (telephone 8-011-7-8,922-91-79-56) plus 8 hours; (mailing address is APO New York is 9,862); telephone NA


Diplomatic representation

Flag descriptionflag of Azerbaijan: three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), red, and green; a crescent and eight-pointed star in white are centered in red band

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


Azerbaijan - Economy 1992
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Economy overview:
Azerbaijan is less developed industrially than either Armenia or Georgia, the other Transcaucasian states. It resembles the Central Asian states in its majority Muslim population, high structural unemployment, and low standard of living. The economy's most prominent products are cotton, oil, and gas. Production from the Caspian oil and gas field has been in decline for several years. With foreign assistance, the oil industry might generate the funds needed to spur industrial development. However, civil unrest, marked by armed conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region between
Muslim Azeris and Christian Armenians, makes foreign investors wary.
Azerbaijan accounts for 1.5% to 2% of the capital stock and output of the former Soviet Union. Although immediate economic prospects are not favorable because of civil strife, lack of economic reform, political disputes about new economic arrangements, and the skittishness of foreign investors,
Azerbaijan's economic performance was the best of all former Soviet republics in 1991 largely because of its reliance on domestic resources for industrial output.

GDP: $NA, per capita $NA; real growth rate --0.7% (1991)

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate

Real gdp per capita

Gross national saving
Gdp composition by sector of origin

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products: cotton, grain, rice, grapes, fruit, vegetables, tea, tobacco; cattle, pigs, sheep and goats

Industries: petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield equipment; steel, iron ore, cement; chemicals and petrochemicals; textiles

Industrial production growth rate: growth rate 3.8% (1991)

Labor force: 2,789,000; agriculture and forestry 32%, industry and construction 26%, other 42% (1990)
Organized labor: NA (1992)
Labor force

Unemployment rate: NA%

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA (1992)

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: calendar year

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports: $780 million (f.o.b., 1991)
Commodoties: oil and gas, chemicals, oilfield equipment, textiles, cotton (1991)
Partners: mostly CIS countries

Imports: $2.2 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
Commodoties: machinery and parts, consumer durables, foodstuffs, textiles (1991)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: NA


Azerbaijan - Energy 1992
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Electricity
Production: 6,025,000 kW capacity; 23,300 million kWh produced, 3,280 kWh per capita (1991)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Azerbaijan - Communication 1992
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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Azerbaijan - Military 1992
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Military expenditures
Percent of gdp: $NA million, NA% of GDP

Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Azerbaijan - Transportation 1992
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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports: NA

Heliports

Pipelines: NA

Railways

Roadways

Waterways: NA km perennially navigable

Merchant marine: none - landlocked
Civil air: none

Ports and terminals


Azerbaijan - Transnational issues 1992
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Disputes international

Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and opium; mostly for domestic consumption; status of government eradication programs unknown; used as transshipment points for illicit drugs to Western Europe


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