Azerbaijan

Capital city — Baku

Country population
10,127,145
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01/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Type of government
Parliamentary republic
Human Development Index
0.756
88/188
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2020
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
2
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2020
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of incarcerated people
24,698
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
243.9
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
27.2
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2022
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 31.
Prison density
96.2 %
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01/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 16.
Total number of prison facilities
53
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2006
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, since 2009
Number and percentage of incarcerated w…
2.9 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 7a.
Number and percentage of incarcerated c…
0.2 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 6.
Number and percentage of people awaitin…
22.5 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 8.
The death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1998

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