The fifty-seventh session of the United Nations Statistical Commission and the High-Level Forum on Official Statistics, focusing on Beyond GDP were held in New York from 2 to 6 March 2026. Vahab Mammadov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, attended the events.

On February 26, the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan held an event dedicated to the 34th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.

On February 13, an extended Board meeting devoted to discussing the activities of the country’s statistical bodies in 2025 and the tasks ahead for 2026 was held at the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, with the participation of the heads of the structural divisions of the Committee’s Administration, the State Statistical Committee of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, as well as the city and district statistical offices.

Mr. Khalid Ahadov, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on social and economic affairs introduced Mr. Azer Mursagulov, appointed as Chairman of the State Statistical Committee pursuant to the Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 10 February 2026 to the staff of the Committee on 11 February.

The delegation led by Tahir Budagov, Chairman of the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, held a number of meetings in Ho Chi Minh City— economic and financial center of the country and its largest city by population—within the framework of the visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 

A delegation led by Tahir Budagov, Chairman of the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, paid an official visit to the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at the invitation of Nguyen Thi Huong, Director General of the National Statistics Office of Viet Nam.

The executive and staff of the State Statistical Committee visited the Alley of Martyrs on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the 20 January tragedy.

The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mr Ilham Aliyev, has signed a Decree approving the “State Program on the Development of Official Statistics in the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2026–2030” with the aim of ensuring the preparation of state programs, strategies, concepts,..