Claim: Azerbaijan's primary economic sectors were oil, gas, chemical, light industries, and food processing, which continued to move at a slow pace from 1920 until 1939.
Evidence: Azerbaijan has the largest agricultural basin in the region. About 54.9 percent of Azerbaijan is agricultural lands. For more than a century the backbone of the Azerbaijani economy has been petroleum, which represented 50 percent of Azerbaijan's GDP in 2005, and is projected to double to almost 125 percent of GDP in 2007. In 2007, mining and hydrocarbon industries accounted for well over 95 per cent of the Azerbaijani economy.