Azerbaijan
Republic of Azerbaijan
- Region
- Asia · Western Asia
- Capital
- Baku
- Population
- 10,246,996 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Azerbaijani manat (AZN)
- Official languages
- Azerbaijani, Russian
- Spoken languages
- Azerbaijani 96.1%, other 1.4%; less than 1%: Russian, Avar, Talyshi, Turkish, Tatar, Sakhur, Tat, Ukrainian, Georgian, Hebrew (2019 est.)
- Written scripts
- Latin, Cyrillic
- Area
- 86,600 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, OIC, WCO, WTO (observer)
- Borders
- Armenia , Georgia , Iran , Russia , Türkiye
Political stability
63 / 100
Economic stability
45 / 100
Population stability
69 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- crude petroleum, natural gas, refined petroleum, plastics, electricity (2023)
- Key imports
- cars, crude petroleum, refined petroleum, broadcasting equipment, garments (2023)
- Natural resources
- petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, nonferrous metals, bauxite
- Primary route
- Gulf and Red Sea hubs (Jebel Ali, Jeddah) on Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Suez Canal corridor to the Mediterranean
The xin.bz view
- Azerbaijan is a Middle Corridor hinge: Caspian cargo from Kazakhstan crosses here toward Georgia and Europe, and traffic rises whenever Black Sea shipping, Suez, or Russian transit becomes difficult.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Increasing the World's Need for Eurasia — Geopolitics Will Decide What Gets Through
Russia's ~60M t exportable grain, Kazakh wheat and uranium, Belarusian potash, Turkmen gas, and the Middle Corridor — El Niño raises the world's need for Eurasia while geopolitics decides what gets through.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.