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AZERBAIJAN IN FIGURES

GENERAL INFORMATION

Establishment date 28 May 1918
Independence Day 18 October 1991
Date of joining to the organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe 30 January 1992
Date of joining to the United Nations 2 March 1992
Date of joining to GIS 19 September 1995
Date of joining to Council of Europe 17 January 2001
Territory, thsd. square km 86.6
Number of population, thsd. person (at the beginning of 2009 year) 8730.3
Population density, per km2 100.8
Capital Baku
Official language azerbaijanian
Monetary unit manat
Exchange rate set of manat to US $ (30.12.2008) 0.8010
Number of administrative units:
Autonomus Republics 1
Districts 66
Towns 77
Districts of cities 13
Settlements 258
Rural territorial division 1700
Rural settlements 4253

Geographical data

Territory  Neighbours
86.6 thsd. square km2, (12% of area covered by forests, 1.7% water, 54.9% agricultural lands, of which 30.9% pastures and haymakings, 31.4% other lands). The country is situated in 44o and 52o of east longitude, 38o and 42o of north latitude, Baku is situated in 40o parallel.   State borders in the south with Iran 765 km and Turkey in the south 15 km , Russia in the north 390 km, Georgia in the north- west 480 km, Armenia in the west 1007 km.
   
The distance from Baku to North Pole is 5550 km, to equator is 4440 km The length of widest area of the Azerbaijan section of Caspian sea is 456 km
    
The biggest lakes are, km2    Longest of the islands, sq. km2
Sarisu- 67.0   Pirallahi -
Chilov- 		14.4
11.5
Aggel- 56.2   Khara-Zira -
Boyuk-Zira - 		3.5
1.4
Agzibirchala- 37.0    
The rivers,km
Mehman- 35.0   Kur -
Araz - 		1515
1072
Boyukshor- 9.2   Ganikh (Alazan) -
Gabirri (Iori) - 		413
389
Hajigabul- 8.4  Samur - 216
     Terter - 200
Caspian sea is the biggest lake in the world,
-its area 400000 km 2, depth -1025m. 		  The highest peak is
Bazarduzu, height - 4466 m

Political system

State Leader: President.

The president is selected by secret vote every five years. On 15 October 2008 Ilham Haydar Aliyev was selected as The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, received the vote of 3 232 259 persons or out of 88.73% of voters, participated in the voiting.

The Legislative Authority of the Azerbaijan Republic is realized by the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Milli Mejlis). The National Assembly of the Azerbaijan Republic consists of 125 deputies. Has been conducted on November 6, 2005 the third call for election to the National Assembly..

Political parties and social organizations
Political parties in Azerbaijan
of which:
Yeni Azerbaijan Party
Musavat Party
Khalg Jabhasy Party
Milli Istiglal Party
Azerbaijan Democrat Party
Adalet Party
Ana Veten Party
Social-Democrat Party
Kendly Party
Democratic Sahibkarlar Party
Communist Party
Vetendash Hemreylik Party
Azerbaijan Liberal Party
Yurddash Party
and others

National Holidays of Azerbaijan

New year January 1-2
International Women's Day March 8
Novruz Holiday March 20-24
The Day of Victory on fascism May 9
The Day of Independence May 28
The Day of Gayidish June 15
The Day of establishment of Army Force June 26
The Day of State Sovereignty October 18
Constitution Day of Azerbaijan November 12
The Day of Revival November 17
The Day of Solidarity of Azerbaijanians all over the world December 31
of which Religions Holidays:  
Gurban 2 days
Ramazan 2 days

Main socio-economic indicators 1) (milyon manat)

  2000 2003 20042005 2006 2007 2008
Number of population (end of the year), thsd. person 8081.0 8265.7 8347.3 8436.4 8532.7 8629.9 8730.3
Gross domestic product 4718.1 7146.5 8530.2 12522.5 18746.2 28360.5 38005.7
Industrial products 3639.5 4982.1 5961.4 9290.5 15509.4 22441.4 28108
Investments 967.8 3786.4 4922.8 5769.9 6234.5 7471.2 9081.4
Agricultural products 1072.6 1386 1496.3 1752.1 1991.5 2793.0 3324.8
Freight turnover in transport sector, mln.ton-km15948 22291 23283 26534 43294 78007 88607
Retail trade turnover 2119.9 3062.0 3729.9 4622.2 5760.3 7591.4 10876.0
Paid services for population 477.2 592.2 694.6 960.7 1400.7 2348.3 3393.0
Volume of foreign trade, mln. US dollars 2917.3 5216.6 7131.4 8558.4 11638.9 11771.7 54919.7
of which:
export 1745.2 2590.4 3615.4 4347.2 6372.2 6058.2 47756.2
import 1172.1 2626.2 3516.0 4211.2 5266.7 5713.5 7163.5
Revenue of state budget 714.6 1220.9 1509.5 2055.2 3868.8 6006.6 10762.7
Expenditure of state budget 764.0 1234.5 1502.1 2140.7 3790.1 6086.2 10680.9
Income of population 4047.3 5738.1 6595.1 8063.6 10198.5 14558.2 20058.2
Income per capita, manat 510.5 707.2 805.6 974.9 1219.2 1720.6 2343.2
Average nominal monthly wage, manat 44.3 77.4 99.4 123.6 149.0 215.8 268.0
Number of registered unemployed, person 43739 54365 55945 56343 53862 50651 44481
Consumer goods price and tariff indices of services:
in comparison with the previous year, % 101.8 102.2 106.7 109.6 108.3 116.7 120.8
Wholesale index of industrial production (average annual, in comparison with to the previous year, percent) 127.4 116.1 112.9 118.9 117.7 108.0 111.6
1) Information in value is given in current prices.

Main socio-economic indicators (according to the previous year, per cent)

 2001200320042005200620072008
Number of population (end of the year) 100.8 100.8 100.99 101.1 101.1 101.1 101.2
Gross domestic product 109.9 111.2 110.2 126.4 134.5 125.0 110.8
Industrial products 105.1 106.1 105.7 133.5 136.6 124.0 106.0
Investments 121.0 173.8 135.4 116.6 115.2 123.8 134.3
Agricultural products 111.1 105.6 104.6 107.5 100.9 104.0 106.1
Freight turnover in transport 115.7 109.9 104.5 114.0 163.2 180.2 113.6
Retail trade turnover 109.9 110.9 113.0 113.2 113.5 115.3 116.1
Paid services for population 105.6 111.7 116.4 126.1 142.1 133.8 129.7
Volume of foreign trade 128.4 136.1 136.7 120.0 136.0 101.1 466.5
of which:
export 132.6 119.5 139.6 120.2 146.6 95.1 788.3
import 122.1 157.7 133.9 119.8 125.1 108.5 125.4
Income of population 106.3 114.3 114.9 122.3 126.5 142.7 137.8
Income per capita 105.4 113.5 113.9 121.0 125.1 141.1 136.2
Revenue of state budget 109.8 134.1 123.6 136.2 188.2 155.3 179.2
Expenditure of state budget 105.7 132.5 121.7 142.5 177.0 160.6 175.5
Average nominal monthly wage 117.3 122.7 128.5 124.3 120.6 144.8 124.2
Number of registered unemployed 110.8 106.7 102.9 100.7 95.6 94.0 87.8

Exchange rate of manat in National Bank of Azerbaijan Republic
(at the and of the year; manat as unit of national currency)

Foreign currency 2000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
1 USD 0.91 0.98 0.92 0.87 0.84 0.8
1 australian dollars 0.51 0.76 0.67 0.69 0.74 0.55
1 Danish krone 0.11 0.18 0.15 0.15 0.17 0.15
1 Evro (uro) 0.85 1.34 1.09 1.14 1.23 1.13
1 pound sterling 1.36 1.88 1.59 1.71 1.69 -
100 Iran rial 0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01
1 swedish krona 0.1 0.15 0.12 0.13 0.13 0.1
1 canada dollars 0.6 0.81 0.79 0.75 0.86 0.66
1 kuwegt dinars 2.99 3.33 3.1 3.01 3.09 2.9
100 lebanon pound 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.05
1 eqypt pound 0.23 0.16 0.16 0.15 0.15 0.14
1 norvegian krone 0.1 0.16 0.14 0.14 0.15 0.11
1 singapore dollars 0.53 0.6 0.55 0.57 0.58 0.55
1 new turkish liras 0.01 x) 0.64 xx) 0.68 0.61 0.72 0.53
100 belarus ruble 0.08 0.05 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04
1 kyrgyzctan som 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02
1 estonian kroon 0.05 0.08 0.07 0.07 0.08 0.07
100 kazakhstan tenge 0.63 0.75 0.69 0.68 0.7 0.66
1 georgia lari 0.46 0.54 0.52 0.51 0.53 0.48
1 latvian lat 1.49 1.9 1.57 1.64 1.77 1.6
1 lithuanian lit 0.23 0.39 0.32 0.33 0.36 0.33
1 moldova lei 0.07 0.08 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.08
100 russian ruble 3.24 3.53 3.19 3.3 3.44 2.72
1 ukraine griven 0.17 0.18 0.18 0.17 0.17 0.11
1 tajikian samoni 0.42 0.32 0.29 0.25 0.24 0.23
x)10 Turkish liras
xx)1000 Turkish liras

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