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Republic of Azerbaijan
President: Heydar Aliyev (1993)
Prime Minister: Artur Rasizade (1996)
Area: 33,400 sq. mi. (86,600 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 7,908,224 (average annual rate of natural increase: 1.21%). Birth rate: 21.6/1000; infant mortality rate: 82.5/1000; density per sq. mi.: 237
Capital and largest city (1991): Baku, 1,713,300, a port on the Caspian Sea. Other large cities: Ganja (1989), 278,000; Sumgait, 231,000
Monetary unit: Manat
Languages: Azerbaijani Turkic, 82%; Russian, 7%; Armenian, 2%
Ethnicity/race: Azeri 90%, Dagestani 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, 87%; Russian Orthodox, 5.6%; Armenian Orthodox, 2%.
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $12.9 billion; $1640 per capita. Real growth rate: 10%. Inflation: –7.6%. Unemployment: 20% (1996 est.). Arable land: 18%. Agriculture: cotton, grain, rice, grapes, fruit, vegetables, tea, tobacco, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats. Labor force: 2.9 million (1997); agriculture and forestry, 32%; industry and construction, 15%; services 53%. Industry: petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield equipment, steel, iron ore, cement, chemicals, chemicals and petrochemicals, textiles. Exports: $781 million (f.o.b., 1997 est.): oil and gas, chemicals, oilfield equipment, textiles, cotton. Imports: $794 million (c.i.f., 1997 est.): machinery and parts, consumer durables, foodstuffs, textiles. Major trading partners: C.I.S., European countries, Turkey.
