Development Co‑operation Profiles: Azerbaijan
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Azerbaijan pursues international development co-operation as an integral part of its foreign policy, with the ambition to address shared development challenges and contribute to global resilience and prosperity. Its approach is grounded in the country’s evolution to an upper middle-income country and its role as an emerging development provider. Azerbaijan’s total official development assistance (ODA) (USD 47.5 million, preliminary data) decreased in 2025, representing 0.06% of gross national income (GNI).
This profile presents verified data on Azerbaijan’s development assistance allocations. See the Development Co-operation Profiles.
Azerbaijan’s development co-operation is guided by its commitment to international peace and co‑operation and to strengthening partnerships. Its efforts are aligned with the country’s long-term national development strategy – Azerbaijan 2030 – and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Azerbaijan provides humanitarian aid and development assistance to more than 140 countries, including 53 out of 54 African countries, 50 out of 57 OIC member states and 43 out of 44 least developed countries. Azerbaijan’s bilateral co-operation, which is mainly implemented by the Azerbaijan International Development Agency and by line ministries, focuses on effective public service delivery, education, healthcare, labour and social protection, poverty reduction and youth empowerment, and humanitarian assistance. Development co-operation is delivered through grants, technical assistance and scholarships.
Azerbaijan also advances its development co-operation through active engagement in multilateral platforms such as the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the UN Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia, the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Azerbaijan hosted the 29th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku (2024), reflecting its commitment to climate action. Azerbaijan also actively contributes to the global development finance architecture debates, organising a side event at the Fourth Financing Conference for Sustainable Development (2025) on strengthening the role of emerging development partners in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through South-South co-operation.
Azerbaijan provided USD 47.5 million (preliminary data) of ODA in 2025 (USD 45.1 million in constant terms), representing 0.06% of GNI.1 This was a decrease of 25.7% in real terms in volume and a decrease in the share of GNI from 2024. Azerbaijan is not in line with its international commitments to achieve a 0.7% ODA/GNI ratio. Total ODA on a grant-equivalent basis has the same value as net ODA under the cash-flow methodology used in the past, as Azerbaijan provides only grants.
Azerbaijan channels the majority of its ODA bilaterally, with bilateral allocations concentrated in Europe and Asia. In 2024, humanitarian assistance made up 84% of Azerbaijan's bilateral ODA commitments, which is one of the largest shares of any provider.
Notes: This table only includes information about ODA data-related DAC recommendations. ODA: official development assistance; GNI: gross national income; DAC: Development Assistance Committee.
Azerbaijan provided most of its ODA bilaterally in 2024. Gross bilateral ODA was 91.5% of total ODA disbursements. Of this, 12.9% was channelled through multilateral organisations (earmarked contributions).
In 2024, Azerbaijan provided USD 12.3 million of gross ODA to the multilateral system, a fall of 58.3% in real terms from 2023. Of this, USD 5.1 million was core multilateral ODA (8.5% of total ODA), while USD 7.2 million was non-core contributions earmarked for a specific country, region, theme or purpose. Programmatic funding (to pooled funds and specific-purpose programmes and funds) accounted for almost all of Azerbaijan’s non-core contributions (99.9%).
The United Nations (UN) system received 16.3% of Azerbaijan’s contributions to multilateral organisations, of which USD 100 thousand (2.8%) represented earmarked contributions. Out of a total volume of USD 2 million to the UN system, the top three UN recipients of Azerbaijan’s support (core and earmarked contributions) were the UN Secretariat (USD 600 thousand), the International Labour Organisation (USD 300 thousand) and the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (USD 300 thousand).
See the section on Geographic, sectoral and thematic focus of ODA for the breakdown of bilateral allocations, including ODA earmarked through the multilateral development system.
In 2024, Azerbaijan’s bilateral spending declined compared to the previous year. It provided USD 55.6 million of gross bilateral ODA (which includes earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations). This represented a decrease of 39.8% in real terms from 2023.
In 2024, country programmable aid amounted to USD 3.4 million, or 6.2% of Azerbaijan’s gross bilateral ODA. Azerbaijan’s humanitarian aid was USD 46.7 million, or 84% of gross bilateral ODA.
In 2024, Azerbaijan channelled its bilateral ODA mainly through the public sector.
In 2024, Azerbaijan’s bilateral ODA primarily focused on ODA-eligible countries in Europe. USD 45 million was allocated to ODA-eligible countries in Europe (of which 8% for Ukraine) and USD 4.3 million to Asia (excluding the Middle East), accounting respectively for 80.9% and 7.8% of gross bilateral ODA. USD 800 thousand was allocated to the Middle East. Asia (excluding the Middle East) was also the main regional recipient of Azerbaijan’s earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations. Azerbaijan’s focus in Europe and Asia is in line with its development co-operation priorities.
In 2024, 83.6% of gross bilateral ODA went to Azerbaijan’s top 10 recipients. Its top recipient was Türkiye, which received USD 41.2 million, followed by Ukraine, which received USD 3.6 million. The share of gross bilateral ODA not allocated by country was 15.6%.
Azerbaijan allocated the highest share of gross bilateral ODA (75.5%) to upper middle-income countries in 2024, noting that 15.6% was unallocated by income group.
In 2025, Azerbaijan provided USD 3.1 million of net bilateral ODA to Ukraine to respond to the impacts of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion, a 13.8% decrease from 2024 in real terms.
Support to contexts with high and extreme fragility was USD 1.1 million in 2024, representing 2% of Azerbaijan’s gross bilateral ODA. Of this ODA, 70.1% was provided in the form of humanitarian assistance, a decrease from 99% in 2023, while 1.9% was allocated to peace. Learn more about the States of Fragility platform.
In 2024, the majority of Azerbaijan’s bilateral ODA was allocated to humanitarian assistance. Investments in this area accounted for 84% of bilateral ODA commitments (USD 46.7 million), with a strong focus on support to reconstruction relief and rehabilitation (USD 41.5 million) and emergency response (USD 5.2 million). ODA for social infrastructure and services amounted to USD 3.7 million (6.6% of bilateral ODA). Earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations also focused on other macro sectors and social sectors in 2024.
Total official support for sustainable development (TOSSD) is an international statistical standard that monitors and increases the transparency of all official and officially supported resources for financing the SDGs received by developing countries (Pillar 1) and for addressing global challenges (Pillar 2). In 2024, activities reported by Azerbaijan as TOSSD totalled USD 73.9 million, marking a 32% decrease compared with the previous year. Azerbaijan’s TOSSD activities mostly targeted SDG 17 (partnerships for the Goals), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities) and SDG 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions). Activity-level data on TOSSD by recipient are available at: https://tossd.online.
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for setting the country’s overall development co‑operation policy.
Azerbaijan’s International Development Agency was established in 2011 under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the mandate to implement and co‑ordinate Azerbaijan’s international development and humanitarian assistance activities to developing countries, ensuring these are consistent with Azerbaijan’s foreign policy objectives.
Access the full list of providers of development co-operation at: Development Co-operation Profiles.
Azerbaijan International Development Agency (AIDA) website: http://aida.mfa.gov.az/en.
Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2021), “Azerbaijan 2030: National Priorities for Socio‑Economic Development”, https://president.az/en/articles/view/50474.
Republic of Azerbaijan (2022), “2022-2026 Social and Economic Development Strategy”, 5478ed13955fb35f0715325d7f76a8ea_3699216.pdf.
Azerbaijan has been a Participant in the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since 2019.
Azerbaijan has been reporting to the OECD activity-level data since 2016 on 2014-2015 activities.
Azerbaijan has participated in the meetings of a few DAC subsidiary bodies, including EvalNet and GovNet. Azerbaijan participated in the DAC High Level Meeting in 2025.
The methodological notes provide further details on the definitions and statistical methodologies applied, including the grant-equivalent methodology, core and earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations, country programmable aid, channels of delivery, bilateral ODA unspecified/unallocated, bilateral allocable ODA, the gender equality policy marker, and the environment markers.
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← 1. DAC members adopted the grant-equivalent methodology starting from their reporting of 2018 data as a more accurate way to count the donor effort in development loans. See the methodological notes for further details.