Azerbaijan
Europe & Central Asia · Upper middle income· 10.20M inhabitants
Last updated: November 1, 2025
Futures readiness profile
Key insights: Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan lags behind global peers in Governance (33, 29th percentile). The remaining dimensions are closer to the global average, but none demonstrate global leadership or advanced futures readiness. Broad-based, high-impact interventions are needed to drive overall education futures readiness and resilience.
Composite GEFRI Score
48.36
42nd percentile
Higher scores indicate greater education futures readiness
Component scores
School Access and Gender Parity49.46
Near the global average · 40th %-tile
Infrastructure64.61
Above global avg. · 51st %-tile
Measures the availability and quality of basic digital and electrical infrastructure that supports education.
Governance32.71
Below global avg. · 29th %-tile
Captures the effectiveness and quality of policies, regulations, and governance that shape the educational environment.
Human Capital50.60
Near the global average · 52nd %-tile
Assesses the educational attainment and capacity of a country’s population, focusing on access and completion at secondary and tertiary levels as well as literacy.
Innovation44.41
Near the global average · 57th %-tile
Reflects a country’s capacity to foster, produce, and apply new knowledge and technology in society and education.
Regional peers: Europe & Central Asia
| Global rank | Regional rank | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Denmark | 82.72 |
| 3 | 2 | Netherlands | 79.50 |
| 6 | 3 | Switzerland | 78.78 |
| 8 | 4 | Sweden | 77.99 |
| 10 | 5 | United Kingdom | 77.59 |
| 11 | 6 | Finland | 77.58 |
| 12 | 7 | Austria | 77.38 |
| 13 | 8 | Germany | 77.04 |
| 14 | 9 | Norway | 76.90 |
| 15 | 10 | France | 76.11 |
| 20 | 11 | Estonia | 73.95 |
| 21 | 12 | Portugal | 73.86 |
| 22 | 13 | Czechia | 72.79 |
| 23 | 14 | Iceland | 72.58 |
| 24 | 15 | Slovenia | 72.40 |
| 25 | 16 | Lithuania | 72.38 |
| 26 | 17 | Belgium | 72.24 |
| — | — | Monaco(microstate) | 72.06 |
| 27 | 18 | Ireland | 71.86 |
| 28 | 19 | Poland | 71.55 |
| 29 | 20 | Spain | 70.94 |
| 30 | 21 | Luxembourg | 70.92 |
| 32 | 22 | Italy | 70.58 |
| 33 | 23 | Greece | 70.36 |
| 35 | 24 | Cyprus | 69.97 |
| — | — | Channel Islands(microstate) | 69.90 |
| — | — | Isle of Man(microstate) | 69.40 |
| 36 | 25 | Latvia | 69.26 |
| — | — | Liechtenstein(microstate) | 68.87 |
| — | — | Faroe Islands(microstate) | 68.81 |
| 37 | 26 | Hungary | 67.00 |
| — | — | Greenland(microstate) | 66.85 |
| 38 | 27 | Croatia | 66.82 |
| — | — | Andorra(microstate) | 65.72 |
| — | — | San Marino(microstate) | 65.04 |
| — | — | Gibraltar(microstate) | 64.69 |
| 40 | 28 | Bulgaria | 64.26 |
| 43 | 29 | Moldova | 63.71 |
| 45 | 30 | Serbia | 63.53 |
| 46 | 31 | Turkiye | 62.81 |
| 48 | 32 | Slovak Republic | 62.07 |
| 51 | 33 | Montenegro | 61.21 |
| 53 | 34 | Armenia | 60.65 |
| 55 | 35 | Russian Federation | 60.36 |
| 57 | 36 | Albania | 59.96 |
| 58 | 37 | Kosovo | 59.54 |
| 59 | 38 | North Macedonia | 59.53 |
| 60 | 39 | Kazakhstan | 59.36 |
| 63 | 40 | Georgia | 59.09 |
| 65 | 41 | Belarus | 57.96 |
| 66 | 42 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 57.65 |
| 70 | 43 | Uzbekistan | 56.74 |
| 77 | 44 | Romania | 54.62 |
| 79 | 45 | Kyrgyz Republic | 54.12 |
| 84 | 46 | Ukraine | 53.20 |
| 95 | 47 | Turkmenistan | 50.01 |
| 100 | 48 | Tajikistan | 49.38 |
| 104 | 49 | Azerbaijan | 48.36 |