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Azerbaijan ranked first in UN digital trade report

10 July 2025 15:38 (UTC +04:00)

The results of the UN's 2025 "Global Study on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation" have been announced, APA-Economics reports, citing the Center for Analysis and Communication of Economic Reforms.

According to the information, as part of the research based on the results of foreign trade reforms conducted in the Asia-Pacific region between 2023 and 2025, Azerbaijan demonstrated a high result in 2025, ranked in the top ten in the Eurasian region with an average indicator of 92.5% across five directions encompassing trade facilitation.

Nijat Hajizade, head of the department at the Center for Analysis and Communication of Economic Reforms, stated that Azerbaijan achieved very high results by demonstrating 100% effectiveness in transparency, formal procedures, institutional cooperation and coordination indicators included in trade facilitation, 92.59% in paperless trade, and 72.2% in cross-border paperless trade.

In the UN’s 2025 “Global Study on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation,” Azerbaijan has improved in several indicators compared to previous years: transparency increased by 53.3 percentage points compared to 2015; formal procedures by 50 percentage points compared to 2015 and 8.3 percentage points compared to 2023; institutional cooperation and coordination by 33.3 percentage points compared to 2015 and 11.1 percentage points compared to 2023; paperless trade by 37 percentage points compared to 2015 and 3.7 percentage points compared to 2023; and cross-border paperless trade by 50 percentage points compared to 2015 and 5.6 percentage points compared to 2023.

Overall, the study shows that Azerbaijan has consistently increased its implementation rates for these indicators from 2015 to 2025.

By achieving high results in this study, Azerbaijan ranked seventh in implementation performance, ahead of most countries in the Asia-Pacific region and secured first place among Northern and Central Asian countries, as well as landlocked developing countries featured in the study’s regional classification.