Azerbaijan
Republic of Azerbaijan
- Capital
- Baku
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 10 million
- Currency
- AZN
- Area
- 86,600 km²
Across Azerbaijan's 13 priced cities, one person needs about $1,046 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $549.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%39
- Safety20%69
- Health care15%49
- Climate10%91
- Air quality10%69
- Connectivity10%48
- Cost10%71
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #73
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 14%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 14%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 3%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 22%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 68.5
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 31.5
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 2.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #78 worldwide
- 93
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #47 worldwide
- 99
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +10%
Cities in Azerbaijan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Yevlakh | 64 | 32.2 | — | — | — | 127.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Mingachevir | 62 | — | — | — | — | 106K | Low confidence |
| 3Khirdalan | 61 | — | — | — | — | 196.2K | Low confidence |
| 4Sumgayit | 58 | 28.2 | $287 | $360 | 58.0 | 427K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 5Baku | 56 | 33.8 | $539 | $549 | 60.0 | 2.4M | High confidence, 141 contributors |
| 6Gence | 55 | 26.1 | $353 | $296 | 45.3 | 330.7K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 7Bakixanov (Bakikhanov) | 54 | 28.3 | — | — | — | 66.7K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 8Barda | 54 | 32.2 | — | — | — | 41.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Bine | 54 | 32.1 | — | — | — | 24.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10Ucar | 54 | 32.1 | — | — | — | 15.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Yardimli | 54 | 32.1 | — | — | — | 7.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Qusar | 51 | 24.7 | $333 | $416 | 67.5 | 16K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 13Nakhchivan (Naxcivan) | 49 | — | — | — | — | 97.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Shamkir | 49 | — | — | — | — | 41.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 15Zaqatala | 49 | — | $118 | — | — | 32.2K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 16Agstafa | 49 | — | — | — | — | 12.2K | Low confidence |
| 17Lankaran | 49 | 25.5 | — | $294 | 48.9 | 89.3K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 18Qebele | 48 | 27.7 | $206 | $235 | 43.2 | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 19Seki | 48 | 31.1 | $216 | $250 | 41.9 | 68.4K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |