Azerbaijan Data Book

Last update: August 2025

This page contains information about some of the data available in the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE) for Azerbaijan. This is not a comprehensive guide.

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Summary table

Country food security context

Statistical reporting units

Azerbaijan is somewhat unique in that, in addition to its contiguous national area, it includes an exclave to the west of its borders, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, which is completely unreachable from Azerbaijan proper without transiting the country of Armenia.  Until recently, there were also two enclaves (Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Artsakh) within the territory of Azerbaijan proper which were aligned with Armenia, and outside of the state’s control. Both are now under Azerbaijani-control.  

The first sub-national level of administrative units into which Azerbaijan is divided includes 67 districts (rayon) and 11 cities, of which 7 districts and 1 city are located in the Nakhchivan republic.  

Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on.

Admin 1: Districts and cities

Admin 2: Municipalities 

District boundaries have remained relatively stable until a new district, Aghdara, was officially created in 2023.

Crop data

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Crop estimate data sources

The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the primary source for crop statistics for Azerbaijan.

Crop reporting units

Crop statistics are reported at the Admin 1 level. Several district name changes have occurred in the 1980-present period, but only 1 new district has been created – Aghdara became a district in 2023. In 2021, fourteen Economic Regions, collections of districts, were announced, but their relevance to crop and other statistics is not yet clear.

Azerbaijan crop statistics found in the FDW are reported by crop regions rather than administrative units. A crop region is actually just an administrative unit, a district, but it is used when the crop statistics continue reporting on old district boundaries that do not respect the creation of new administrative units for some, or most, of the periods covered.  Relationship tables and annual boundary units are available for both the administrative boundaries and for the crop region reporting units.

Year and season definition

The annual cropping cycle in Azerbaijan is generally considered to start with winter plantings in November or later, with harvests being completed by late August.  Both the agricultural year and the crop reporting year are generally referred to with a single-year notation (e.g. “2023”), this being the year in which the harvests occur.

The winter-planted wheat crop is the most important harvest in the year, generally occurring early in the June-August period. 

A spring barley crop is also very important, with planting occurring as early as March, and harvests generally being completed by August. 

Crop production context

There are approximately 30-35 crops for which crop results are reported in Azerbaijan. 

All crops are reported by year (no seasonal breakouts), and no production system break-outs are provided. 

Hectares are the normal areal units of measure for Azerbaijan’s crop data, but production amounts may be calculated using provided 100 kilogram yield estimates. 

Methodology

No information available.