Around 624,000 people of Azerbaijan have varying degrees of disability, which makes up about 6.4% of the population.
[1] The country ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in January 2009.
In January 2011, it submitted state party report on measures taken to give effect to its obligation under CRPD and on the progress made with regards to that to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
[1] In 2019, Baku Metro initiated a program to allocate two staffs to chaperone disabled commuters through their destination.
[3] Azerbaijan made its Paralympic Games debut at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, with a two-man delegation to compete in track and field and powerlifting.