Key Demographic Features of Azerbaijan*
Location: Southwestern Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea,
between Iran and Russia
Map references: Commonwealth of Independent States
People
Population: 7,676,953 (July 1996 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 32% (male 1,270,812; female 1,215,781)
15-64 years: 61% (male 2,293,688; female 2,423,222)
65 years and over: 7% (male 179,048; female 294,402) (July
1996 est.)
Population growth rate: 0.78% (1996 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 74.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1996
est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 64.84 years
male: 60.13 years
female: 69.78 years (1996 est.)
Ethnic divisions: Azeri 90%, Dagestani Peoples 3.2%,
Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2.3%, other 2% (1995 est.)
note: almost all Armenians live in the separatist
Nagorno-Karabakh region
Religions: Muslim 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian
Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.)
note:
Languages: Azeri 89%, Russian 3%, Armenian 2%, other 6%
(1995 est.)
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989 est.)
total population: 97%
male: 99%
female: 96%
Government
Country Abbreviation: AJ
Type of government: republic
Independence: 30 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
National holiday: Independence Day, 28 May
Constitution: adopted 12 November 1995
Legal system: based on civil law system
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Other political or pressure groups: self-proclaimed
Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; Talysh independence movement
International organization participation: BSEC, CCC, CIS,
EBRD, ECE, ECO, ESCAP, FAO, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFRCS, ILO,
IMF, IMO, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, ITU, NACC, NAM (observer), OIC,
OSCE, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO
(observer)
Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Hafiz Mir Jalal PASHAYEV
chancery: (temporary) Suite 700, 927 15th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20005
telephone: [1] (202) 842-0001
FAX: [1] (202) 842-0004
US diplomatic representation:
chief of mission: Ambassador Richard D. KAUZLARICH
embassy: Azadliq Prospekti 83, Baku
mailing address: use embassy street address
telephone: [9] (9412) 96-00-19, 98-03-37, 98-03-36,
93-64-80, 96-36-21
FAX: [9] (9412) 98-37-55
Flag: three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), red, and
green; a crescent and eight-pointed star in white are centered in
red band
Economy
Economic overview:
GDP: purchasing power parity - $11.5 billion (1995 estimate
as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1994)
GDP real growth rate: -17% (1995 est.)
GDP per capita: $1,480 (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: 2.3% includes officially registered
unemployed; also large numbers of unregistered unemployed and
underemployed workers (December 1995)
Communications
Telephones: 710,000 (1991 est.)
Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA (1
state-owned radio broadcast station)
Radios: NA
Television broadcast stations: 2
note: domestic and Russian TV programs are received locally
and Turkish and Iranian TV is received from an Intelsat satellite
through a receive-only earth station
Televisions: NA
*Source: World Factbook 1996, U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency
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