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AZERBAIJAN IN FIGURES

Number of recorded crimes (incident)

Crimes 2000 2003 2004 2005 20062007 2008
Recorded crimes - total 13958 15206 16810 18049 19045 18667 21692
of which:
premeditated murder and attempted murder 325 285 293 288 267 269 236
intentional heavy body injuries 290 259 219 217 250 235 215
forcible rape and attempted rape 46 49 25 44 35 34 25
robbery 145 168 176 196 238 218 369
brigandage 200 155 171 165 160 142 202
larceny 2534 1819 1776 2151 2139 1951 3401
illicit preparation,storage and selling of narcotics 1989 1818 1884 1961 2140 2272 2675
hooliganism 1148 1336 1470 1358 1321 1232 1185
violation of traffic safety and traffic regulations explaitation 839 1099 1270 1514 1687 1688 1662
of which:
resulting with death 309 437 538 726 766 835 775

Structure of person committed crime (persons)

Crimes 2000 2003 2004 2005 20062007 2008
Structure of revealed persons committed crimes 12906 14447 16030 17303 18564 17734 18312
including:
by sex:
men 11726 12230 13673 14783 15889 15229 15739
women 1180 2217 2357 2520 2675 2505 2573
committing crime by age, age:
14-15 111 71 70 66 52 60 76
16-17 462 341 421 488 435 425 422
18-24 2167 2398 2764 2879 3176 2804 2945
25-29 2160 2272 2635 2775 3176 3219 3267
30 and over 8006 9365 10140 11095 11725 11226 11602
committing crime by occupation:
workers 855 342 407 356 444 533 640
employees 1383 634 577 728 686 674 617
enrollments 163 106 113 131 113 135 119

Distribution of convicts by type of punishmentent (persons)

Crimes 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Convicts - total 14605 11827 13353 13711 14206 14187 13995
including:
life imprisonment 23 21 20 13 9 18 9
Imprisonment for specified time 6076 5176 5262 5625 5830 5805 5848
public works 571 744 785 658 662 558 487
reformatory works 1183 1556 1792 1880 1819 1934
limitation, by military sewice 34 30 6 - - 6
restraint in military unit of dicipline character 253 184 284 285 318 331
restraint of liberty 557 810 810 991 1099 891
penalty 850 1852 2511 2957 3246 3249 3419
disqualified to fill a position 164 4 1 4 - - 2
conditional conviction 2003 2194 1562 1303 1321 1068

Number of convicts by decision of court by separate crimes (person)

Crimes 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total 14605 11827 13353 13711 14206 14187 13995
of which by type of crimes
premeditated murder 284 329 338 326 269 295 207
intentional heavy body injuries 184 225 111 185 203 195 185
rape 39 46 28 35 30 27 21
robbery 104 169 169 188 184 190 225
brigandage 55 145 128 160 112 175 137
larceny 1507 1144 1103 1234 1185 1195 1231
crimes relevant to narcotics 1658 1686 1796 1669 1870 1958 2150
hooliganism 589 1281 1494 1525 1501 1401 1323
violation of traffic regulations 369 574 934 970 1264 1279 1253

Composition of convicts (per cent)

Crimes 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
of which by age:
14-17 2.1 2.3 2.4 2.5 1.7 2.1 1.9
18 year and over 97.9 97.7 97.6 97.5 98.3 97.9 98.1
from total convicts:
women 5.5 9.7 9.4 9.3 9.8 9.7 9.8
persons sentenced before 11.5 1.6 8.5 3.9 5.5 4.3 7.9
non-studying and non-working people able for work 54.1 69.1 70.0 69.9 69.2 68.5 68.7

Road traffic accidents

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Number of accidents 1987 2311 2388 3179 3197 3104 2970
in motorways 582 837 868 1035 712 645 644
in inside built-up areas 1405 1474 1520 2144 2485 2459 2326
accidents between vehicle and pedestrian 1038 1145 1097 1467 1403 1344 1242
single vehicle accidents 356 401 428 618 624 622 614
accidents between vehicles 593 765 863 1094 1170 1138 1114
In road traffic:
persons killed 596 724 811 1065 1027 1107 1052
persons injured 2199 2691 2766 3668 3606 3432 3232

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