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Afghanistan

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Afghanistan is a country. The capital city is Kabul, located in the Southern Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 652,230 km², a population of 41,454,761 people and uses the currency Afghan afghani. The President is Ashraf Ghani.

Key facts

currency: Afghan afghani
capital city: Kabul
region: Southern Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 652,230 km²
population: 41,454,761 people
political leader: Ashraf Ghani (President)

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expense: 39.22 % of GDP
GDP: 17,233,051,620.11 current US$
inflation: 2.30 annual %
self-employed workers: 81.72 % of total employment
tax revenue: 9.90 % of GDP
unemployment: 13.99 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 80.29 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 165,000 people
democracy score: 2.97
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 4,187,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 17.70 % of population
military expenditure: 1.83 % of GDP
net migration: -48,958 people
press freedom: 2.14
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 27.02 %
birth rate: 35.14 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.91 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 81.32 current US$
health expenditure: 21.83 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.03 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.36 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 63
suicide mortality rate: 4.10 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 383,130.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 8.71 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 85.30 % of population
fertility rate: 4.52 births per woman
forest area: 12,084 km²
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 29.46 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 13.00
methane emissions: 16.45 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 3.56 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 20,530,683 people
male population: 20,924,078 people
renewable energy consumption: 20.00 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 636,173.23 km²
rural population: 30,289,750 people
urban land area: 3,993.84 km²
urban population: 11,165,011 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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Afghanistan is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Southern Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Afghanistan

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