Azerbaijan
Capital: Baku · Upper middle income · Pop. 10.2 million
Source: World Bank Open Data (WHO/UNICEF JMP & FAO AQUASTAT) · drinking water 2024
In Azerbaijan, 57.81% of the population uses safely managed drinking water — an improved source, located on premises, available when needed, and free from contamination (2024 estimate). That leaves roughly 4.3 million people without safely managed drinking water at home.
Sanitation tracks closely: 68% use safely managed sanitation services and 98.98% have at least a basic service (2024).
Azerbaijan has about 800 cubic meters of renewable internal freshwater per person each year — below the ~1,000 m³ threshold widely used to define water scarcity. It withdraws the equivalent of 161% of those internal resources annually (extreme (over-extraction) water stress), meaning it relies on rivers from outside its borders, desalination, or drawing down stored reserves.
Agriculture accounts for about 92% of Azerbaijan's water withdrawals, the rest going to households and industry.
Common questions
How many people in Azerbaijan have safe drinking water?
57.81% of Azerbaijan's population uses safely managed drinking water (2024), per WHO/UNICEF data; about 4.3 million people do not.
Does Azerbaijan have enough freshwater?
Azerbaijan has roughly 800 m³ of renewable internal freshwater per person per year, and uses about 161% of it annually (extreme (over-extraction) stress).