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Azerbaijan

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A consolidated migration profile for Azerbaijan: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.

CapitalBaku
RegionEurope
SubregionEurope & Central Asia (excluding high income)
Population10,246,996
Refugees hosted 6,389 People protected here
Refugees from here — Fled abroad
Migrants living here 218,460 Foreign-born stock
Net migration 8,731 Net inflow
Asylum-seekers 199 Awaiting a decision
Reporting year 2025 Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025

Key migration numbers

The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.

2025Reporting year
6,389Refugees hosted
199Asylum-seekers
34Applications (year)
Migration balance

Incoming vs outgoing

Annual estimates

Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.

Net migration (year)8,731Net inflow
Migrants living here218,460Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series

Statistics

Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).

Population profile

Sex, age, religion & more

How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.

Religion

Religious make-up over time

National shares

Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1995 2000 2005 2010 2020
Christian Muslim Jewish Unaffiliated Other

See the full religion timeline for this country →

Places of worship

Places of worship over time

Recorded counts

No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.

See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →

Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.

Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.

Sex

Female 49.5%
Male 49.1%
Unknown 1.4%

Age

0-4 0.0%
12-17 0.0%
18-59 0.0%
5-11 0.0%
Country context

National indicators

Economy

GDP (current US$)75,937,647,058.82 USD2025
GDP per capita (current US$)7,410.72 USD2025
Unemployment (% of labour force)5.46 %2025
Personal remittances received (US$)1,492,181,000.00 USD2025
Personal remittances received (% of GDP)1.97 %2025

Population

Population, total10,246,996.00 people2025
Population density122.85 people/km22023

Migration

Net migration8,731.00 people2025
International migrant stock, total218,460.00 people2024
International migrant stock (% of population)2.10 %2024

Asylum decisions

Asylum decisions - recognised31.00 people2023
Asylum decisions - rejected26.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - otherwise closed78.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - total104.00 people2025

Durable solutions

Returned refugees6.00 people2024
Naturalisations13.00 people2023

Other

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)74.58 years2024
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)97.20 %2024
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)4.27 %2023
Gini index26.60 2005
Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)0.00 %2005
Context

Migration & quality of life

These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.

Economy

Gross domestic product

World Bank

GDP (current US$)

$75.94B

Reported 2025

GDP per capita (current US$)

$7,411

Reported 2025

Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.

Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).

Public safety

Recorded crime

Not migrant offending

National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.

Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
CrimeRate / 100k
442.00
Homicide2.16
Public expenditure

Expenses

Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.

YearAmount (USD)Category
2023$123,224,663ODA received
2022$48,497,169ODA received
2021$10,805,035ODA received
2020$124,028,862ODA received
2019$120,325,294ODA received
2018$87,423,637ODA received
2017$123,526,817ODA received
2016$79,432,739ODA received
2015$69,583,282ODA received
2014$216,738,617ODA received
2013$-70,830,536ODA received
2012$286,787,048ODA received
2011$287,774,902ODA received
2010$121,379,997ODA received
2009$217,576,736ODA received
2008$225,095,840ODA received
2007$213,306,107ODA received
2006$203,854,340ODA received
2005$210,401,001ODA received
2004$175,826,660ODA received
2003$302,033,630ODA received
2002$350,809,479ODA received
2001$230,909,470ODA received
2000$140,610,565ODA received
1999$170,995,575ODA received
1998$120,358,170ODA received
1997$184,059,998ODA received
1996$96,360,001ODA received
1995$119,540,001ODA received
1994$149,039,993ODA received
1993$23,870,001ODA received
1992$7,430,000ODA received
1991$300,000ODA received
Sources & notes

Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.