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Azerbaijan - Introduction 1993
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Background: 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.


Azerbaijan - Geography 1993
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Location: Southeastern Europe, between Armenia and Turkmenistan, bordering the Caspian Sea

Geographic coordinates

Map reference:
Africa, Asia, Commonwealth of Independent States - Central
Asian States, Commonwealth of Independent States - European States, Middle
East, Standard Time Zones of the World


Area
Total: 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


Elevation

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

Land use
Permanent crops: 0%
Meadows and pastures: 25%
Forest and woodland: 0%
Other: 57%

Irrigated land: 14,010 km² (1990)

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Azerbaijan - People 1993
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Population: 7,573,435 (July 1993 est.)
Growth rate: 1.5% (1993 est.)

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: 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 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

Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 35.7 deaths/1000 live births (1993 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
Total 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 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: age 9-49 can read and write (1970)
Total population: 100%
Female: 100%

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Azerbaijan - Government 1993
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Country name
Conventional 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 areas

Independence: 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 participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: 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 leaders

International organization participation:
BSEC, CSCE, EBRD, ECO, ESCAP, IBRD, IDB, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT,
ITU, NACC, OIC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO


Diplomatic representation
In 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 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 1993
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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 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 parity

Real gdp growth rate: -25% (1992)

Real gdp per capita: $NA

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 -27% (1992)

Labor force: 2.789 million
By occupation agriculture and forestry: 32%
By occupation industry and construction: 26%
By occupation other: 42% (1990)
Labor force

Unemployment rate: 0.2% includes officially registered unemployed; also large numbers of underemployed workers

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: $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 gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: NA


Azerbaijan - Energy 1993
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Electricity
Production: 6,025,000 kW capacity; 22,300 million kWh produced, 2,990 kWh per capita (1992)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Azerbaijan - Communication 1993
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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Azerbaijan - Military 1993
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Military expenditures
Percent 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 forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Azerbaijan - Transportation 1993
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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports: 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

Heliports

Pipelines: crude oil 1,130 km, petroleum products 630 km, natural gas 1,240 km

Railways

Roadways

Waterways

Merchant marine

Ports and terminals


Azerbaijan - Transnational issues 1993
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Disputes 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 persons

Illicit 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


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