BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 23. Allocations to defense and national security expenditures in Azerbaijan grew by 26.3 percent or 802.5 million manat ($474 million) during the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year.
The data obtained by Trend from the Ministry of Finance shows that in the reporting period, spending on culture, arts, information, physical education, youth policy, and similar activities rose by 22.2 percent or 44.4 million manat ($26.2 million), agriculture - by 19.9 percent or 97.8 million manat ($57.7 million), judiciary, law enforcement, and prosecution - by 10.7 percent or 124.5 million manat ($73.4 million), education - 10.4 percent or 233.5 million manat ($137.6 million), social protection and social security expenditures - by 5.1 percent or 106.6 million manat ($62.8 million) year on year.
Besides, from January through June 2025, based on functional classification, education expenditures were implemented by 120 percent or 2.47 billion manat ($1.46 billion), agriculture expenditures - 117.2 percent or 588.8 million manat ($349 million), social protection and social security expenditures - 110.9 percent or 2.1 billion manat ($1.3 billion), defense and national security expenditures - 109.9 percent or 3.8 billion manat ($2.28 billion), general government services expenditures 98.6 percent or 2.16 billion manat ($1.28 billion), judiciary, law enforcement, and prosecution expenditures 96.5 percent or 1.28 billion manat ($761 million), healthcare expenditures 95.3 percent or 792.6 million manat ($469 million), culture, arts, information, physical education, youth policy, and similar activities expenditures 94.1 percent or 244.2 million manat ($144.4 million), economic activities expenditures 77.7 percent or 2,716.9 million manat ($1.61 billion), expenditures for services not classified in major groups 72.5 percent or 571.7 million manat ($338.1 million), environmental protection expenditures - 71.1 percent or 122.9 million manat ($72.7 million), and housing and communal services expenditures - 57.4 percent or 88.5 million manat ($52.3 million).
