Statistical information Azerbaijan 1993

Azerbaijan in the World
top of pageBackground: Azerbaijan continues to be plagued by an unresolved five-year-old 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.
top of pageLocation: Southeastern Europe, between Armenia and Turkmenistan, bordering the Caspian Sea
Geographic coordinatesMap reference:
Africa, Asia, Commonwealth of Independent States - Central
Asian States, Commonwealth of Independent States - European States, Middle
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AreaTotal: 86,600 km²
Land: 86,100 km²
Land boundaries: total 2,013 km, 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: 0 km (landlocked; Azerbaijan does border the Caspian Sea (800 km, est.)
Maritime claims: NA; Azerbaijani claims in Caspian Sea unknown; 10 nm fishing zone provided for in 1940 treaty regarding trade and navigation between Soviet Union and Iran
Climate: dry, semiarid steppe; subject to drought
Terrain:
large, flat Kura-Aras 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
ElevationNatural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, nonferrous metals, alumina
Land usePermanent crops: 0%
Meadows and pastures: 25%
Forest and woodland: 0%
Other: 57%
Irrigated land: 14,010 km² (1990)
Major riversMajor watersheds area km²Total water withdrawalTotal renewable water resourcesNatural hazardsGeographytop of pagePopulation: 7,573,435 (July 1993 est.)
Growth rate: 1.5% (1993 est.)
NationalityNoun: 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 profileAge structureDependency ratiosMedian agePopulation growth rate: 1.5% (1993 est.)
Birth rate: 24.09 births/1000 population (1993 est.)
Death rate: 6.61 deaths/1000 population (1993 est.)
Net migration rate: -2.45 migrant(s)/1000 population (1993 est.)
Population distributionUrbanizationMajor urban areasEnvironmentCurrent 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
Air pollutantsSex ratioMothers mean age at first birthMaternal mortality ratioInfant mortality rate: 35.7 deaths/1000 live births (1993 est.)
Life expectancy at birthTotal population: 70.6 years
Male: 66.77 years
Female: 74.63 years (1993 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.76 children born/woman (1993 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rateDrinking water sourceCurrent health expenditurePhysicians densityHospital bed densitySanitation facility accessHiv/AidsMajor infectious diseasesObesity adult prevalence rateAlcohol consumptionTobacco useChildren under the age of 5 years underweightEducation expendituresLiteracy: age 9-49 can read and write (1970)
Total population: 100%
Female: 100%
School life expectancy primary to tertiary educationYouth unemploymenttop of pageCountry nameConventional long form: Republic of Azerbaijan
Conventional short form: Azerbaijan
Local long form: Azarbaijchan Respublikasy
Local short form: none
Former: Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Government type: republic
Capital: Baku (Baky)
Administrative divisions:
1 autonomous republic (avtomnaya respublika);
Nakhichevan (administrative center at Nakhichevan)
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 areasIndependence: 30 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
National holiday: NA
Constitution: adopted NA April 1978; writing a new constitution mid-1993
Legal system: based on civil law system
International law organization participationCitizenshipSuffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch: president, council of ministers
Legislative branch: National Parliament (National Assembly or Milli Mejlis)
Judicial branch: Supreme Court
Political parties and leadersInternational organization participation:
BSEC, CSCE, EBRD, ECO, ESCAP, IBRD, IDB, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT,
ITU, NACC, OIC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO
Diplomatic representationIn the us chief of mission: Ambassador Hafiz PASHAYEV
In the us chancery: 1615 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20,036
In the us telephone: NA
From the us chief of mission: Ambassador Richard MILES
From the us embassy: Hotel Intourist, Baku
From the us mailing address: APO AE 9,862
From the us telephone: 7-8,922-91-79-56
Flag description
: three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), red, and green; a crescent and eight-pointed star in white are centered in red band
National symbolsNational anthemNational heritagetop of pageEconomy 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 accounted for 1.5% to 2% of the capital stock and output of the former Soviet Union. Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the ex-Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a market economy, but its considerable economic revival is the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said to consume 25% of Azerbaijan's economic resources.
Real gdp purchasing power parityReal gdp growth rate: -25% (1992)
Real gdp per capita: $NA
Gross national savingGdp composition by sector of origin
Gdp composition by end useGdp composition by sector of originAgriculture 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 -27% (1992)
Labor force: 2.789 million
By occupation agriculture and forestry: 32%
By occupation industry and construction: 26%
By occupation other: 42% (1990)
Unemployment rate: 0.2% includes officially registered unemployed; also large numbers of underemployed workers
Youth unemploymentPopulation below poverty lineGini indexHousehold income or consumption by percentage shareDistribution of family income gini indexBudget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA (1992)
Taxes and other revenuesPublic debtRevenueFiscal year: calendar year
Inflation rate consumer pricesCentral bank discount rateCommercial bank prime lending rateStock of narrow moneyStock of broad moneyStock of domestic creditMarket value of publicly traded sharesCurrent account balanceExports: $821 million to outside the successor states of the former USSR (f.o.b., 1992 est.)
Commodoties: oil and gas, chemicals, oilfield equipment, textiles, cotton (1991)
Partners: mostly CIS and European countries
Imports: $300 million from outside the successor states of the former USSR (c.i.f., 1992 est.)
Commodoties: machinery and parts, consumer durables, foodstuffs, textiles (1991)
Partners: European countries
Reserves of foreign exchange and goldDebt externalStock of direct foreign investment at homeStock of direct foreign investment abroadExchange rates: NA
top of pageElectricityProduction: 6,025,000 kW capacity; 22,300 million kWh produced, 2,990 kWh per capita (1992)
CoalPetroleumCrude oilRefined petroleumNatural gasCarbon dioxide emissionsEnergy consumption per capitatop of pageTelephonesTelephone systemBroadcast mediaInternetBroadband fixed subscriptionstop of pageMilitary expendituresPercent of gdp: 2,848 million rubles, NA% of GDP (1992 est.), note - conversion of the military budget into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results
Military and security forcesMilitary service age and obligationSpace programTerrorist groupstop of pageNational air transport systemCivil aircraft registration country code prefixAirports: 65
Usable: 33
With permanentsurface runways: 26
With runways over 3659 m: 0
With runways 2440-3659 m: 8
With runways 1220-2439 m: 23
HeliportsPipelines: crude oil 1,130 km, petroleum products 630 km, natural gas 1,240 km
RailwaysRoadwaysWaterwaysMerchant marinePorts and terminalstop of pageDisputes international:
violent and longstanding dispute with Armenia over status of Nagorno-Karabakh, lesser dispute concerns Nakhichevan; some
Azerbaijanis desire absorption of and/or unification with the ethnically Azeri portion of Iran; minor irredentist disputes along Georgia border
Refugees and internally displaced personsIllicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and opium; mostly for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program; used as transshipment points for illicit drugs to Western Europe