Azerbaijan's defense, national security spending up by 23% in 2025

Kanan Sadigov
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Defense and national security expenditures in Azerbaijan's 2025 state budget were executed at 96.1%, amounting to 8.068 billion manats, Report informs referring to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Finance.

This represents an increase of 22.9%, or 1.506 billion manats, compared to 2024.

In the reporting year, defense and national security expenditures accounted for 20.9% of actual state budget expenditures.

($1=1.7 manats)

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