List of regions of Azerbaijan by Human Development Index

This is a list of Azerbaijani regions by Human Development Index as of 2025. HDI of Azerbaijan is 0.789 as of 2025 according to United Nations Human Development Index Report.

Rank	Region	HDI (2025)
Very high human development
1	Baku	0.850
2	Absheron Economic Region	0.820
3	Sheki-Zagatala Economic Region	0.805
High human development
4	Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic	0.790
–	Azerbaijan	0.789
5	Ganja-Dashkasan Economic Region	0.780
6	Guba-Khachmaz Economic Region	0.765
7	Karabakh Economic Region	0.745
8	Gazakh-Tovuz Economic Region	0.742
9	Central Aran Economic Region	0.740
10	Lankaran Economic Region	0.740
11	Shirvan-Salyan Economic Region	0.738
12	Mil-Mughan Economic Region	0.730
	East Zangezur Economic Region	N/D

Map of the Azerbaijan regions by Human Developmeny Index in 2025 Legend:

  >0.850

  0.800 – 0.849

  0.750 – 0.799

  0.700 – 0.749

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic

Nakhchivan enjoys a high Human Development Index; its socio-economic prowess far exceeds that of Azerbaijan itself. According to the report of Nakhchivan AR Committee of Statistics on June 30, 2018 for the end of 2017, some socio-economical data, including the following, are unveiled:

Variable	Value
Population	462,055[1]
GNI (PPP) per capita	$15,240[2]
Life Expectancy at birth	72.9 years[3]
Mean Years of Schooling	10.5 years[4]
Expected Years of Schooling	12.6 years[4]

Making use of the Human Development Index calculation method according to the new UNHD 2014 method,^[5] the above values change into an HDI of 0.756.