Afghanistan
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Key facts
- Currency: Afghan afghani
- Capital city: Kabul
- Region: Southern Asia
- Continent: Asia
- Land area: 652,230 km²
- Population: 41,128,771
- Political Leader: Ashraf Ghani (President)
Latest news (see all)
250,000 Afghan children need education, food and homes after returning from Pakistan, says NGO
Read: ABC News
2024-04-18
250,000 Afghan children need education, food and homes after returning from Pakistan, says NGO
Read: The Star
2024-04-18
Rwanda bill - live: Sunak doubles down on refusal to help Afghan heroes as no guarantee of fights by spring
Read: Independent
2024-04-18
Rwanda bill - live: Shapps insists he wants to help Afghan heroes despite government blocking Lord's amendment
Read: Independent
2024-04-18
Metrics
General information
Business
| Expense | 39.22 % of GDP |
| GDP | 14,266,500,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 2.30 annual % |
| Self-employed | 81.74 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 9.90 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 15.38 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 80.12 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 383,130.00 km² |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 8,709.47 kt |
| Fertility rate | 4.64 births per woman |
| Forest area | 12,084 km² |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | -1,800.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 12.90 years |
| Methane emissions | 16,222.00 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 4,863.39 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 20,362,329 |
| Male Population | 20,766,442 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 17.86 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 636,173.00 km² |
| Rural population | 30,181,937 |
| Urban land area | 3,993.84 km² |
| Urban population | 10,946,834 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 0.00 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 35.84 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 7.34 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 81.32 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 16.83 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.04 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 0.39 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 62 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 4.10 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 97.70 % of population |
| Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence | 4,394,000 |
| Individuals using the Internet | 18.40 % of population |
| Net migration | -65,846 |
| Press freedom | 2.14 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 165,000 |
| Democracy score | 2.97 |
| Democracy type | Authoritarian |
| Military expenditure | 1.83 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 27.02 % |
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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
