Azerbaijan

Summary
Azerbaijan was highly dependent in the 2010s, with an average DDI value of 0.84 over 10 years. However, it has seen its DDI value decrease steadily since 2020. In 2023, this figure stood at 0.77. This overall stability masks significant fluctuations in specific areas, particularly ICT services, where values ranged from 0.44 to 0.61. Azerbaijan is highly dependent on ICT goods from both the U.S. and China, with a significant asymmetry in its bilateral relationships. Attempts to reduce dependency on the former have had no sustainable effect, with the value hitting 0.90 in 2020 before jumping back to 1.00 the following year. In contrast, Azerbaijan's bilateral dependency on ICT goods from China has remained at 1.0 since 2010.

Policies
During the period between 2020 and 2026, Azerbaijan appears to have focussed its policies on the improvement of cybersecurity. Especially the “Strategy of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Information Security and Cybersecurity for 2023–2027” states the goal of reducing the country’s dependence on foreign technology and expertise in the cyber security domain.