azerbaijan-mcp-azstat

MCP server for the State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan (azstat.gov.az). It searches the Committee's statistical tables (about 1,800 in 31 topics: population, labour market, education, prices, trade and more) and reads their data through the Committee's open data API: no API key, no scraping.

Tools

A typical question, "what was the population of Azerbaijan in 2023?", takes search_tables("population"), then describe_table("DT_AA_001"), then get_table_data("DT_AA_001", period_from=2023, where={"Indicator": "Total population"}).

Things worth knowing:

• lang is en or az; the API offers no other. Titles, categories and the words searched are in that language. Accents are ignored, so gelir finds gəlir.
• Data is in long format, one row per period and category combination. columns names the cells: period, one column per dimension, value, and symbol and unit when rows have them. Periods are written 2023 for years and 202603 for months. A nested category reads parent > child.
• A null value with a symbol (seen: - and ...) means the Committee published the symbol instead of a number. The symbol is returned as published, not interpreted. Many tables give their unit only in the title.
• The API has no filters, so a table is read whole and cut here. At most 20 MB per table is read (a larger one returns status too_large), and it is cached for 30 minutes. The largest table in the sample checked was 9 MB.
• Some tables seem to leave out a dimension. In a sample of 26 tables, 2 had several values for the same period and categories with nothing to tell them apart. For those, get_table_data returns status ambiguous, no rows and the link to the table on the Committee's site; describe_table still shows what they hold.

Install

Add to your MCP client configuration (requires uv):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azstat": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["azerbaijan-mcp-azstat"]
    }
  }
}

In Claude Code: claude mcp add azstat -- uvx azerbaijan-mcp-azstat.

One optional setting goes in the client's env:

Data source and terms

The data is published by the State Statistical Committee at https://www.azstat.gov.az. This server reads its open data API, the tables and data actions of AsisOpenDataApi. The API has no public documentation (no documentation page answers at the usual paths), so a live contract test pins the shape of its answers. Answers to the checklist in the repository's data policy, read on 2026-11-01:

• Terms: the Committee's own pages state no terms for the API and ask users to cite the source. The national open data portal, opendata.az, lists AsisOpenDataApi addresses among the files of 1,426 of the Committee's 1,662 datasets there, and all 1,662 carry the CC0 licence. Its FAQ (https://opendata.az/page/faq, updated 8 April 2025) defines open data as data anyone can access, use and share again, and tells developers they can build applications on the data and the API.
• robots.txt: none is published (www.azstat.gov.az/robots.txt answers 404).
• Attribution: every response has source and attribution fields and the link to the table's page. Cite the Committee when you use the numbers.
• Rate limit and cache: the User-Agent is azerbaijan-mcp-azstat/<version>, with at most one request per second, one retry for network errors and 5xx, and a stop on 403 or 429. The table list is cached for an hour and each table for 30 minutes.
• Personal data: none. The tables are aggregate statistics.
• Publisher contacted: no.
• Decision: go, as an official, read-only API.

Unofficial project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the State Statistical Committee.

tests/fixtures/ holds trimmed copies of real answers from the API; DT_AA_001 and DT_BE_119 are whole.