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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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Location on a map: 33°0′N, 65°0′E

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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 universities in Afghanistan per foundation year

Distribution of companies in Afghanistan by foundation year

Distribution of politicians from Afghanistan by birth year

Distribution of diseases in Afghanistan by start date

Evolution of historical agricultural land in Afghanistan with forecast

Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Afghanistan with forecast

Evolution of historical male population in Afghanistan with forecast

Evolution of historical access to electricity in Afghanistan with forecast

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Map of the distribution of cities in Afghanistan by population

Share of employee types in companies from Afghanistan

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Correlation of urban population and armed forces personnel by countries yearly in Afghanistan

Correlation of armed forces personnel and nitrous oxide emissions of countries yearly in Afghanistan

Correlation of methane emissions and urban land area by countries yearly in Afghanistan

Correlation of methane emissions and rural population by countries yearly in Afghanistan

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There are 761 books written about Afghanistan in the database.

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