Afghanistan Analytics

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Pashto : 19,008,000
2. Persian : 13,939,000

Mother Tongue : Pashto

Literacy Rate (%) : 37.30

Country Capital	:	Kabul
GDP Per capita	:	0
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	186^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	66
Unemployment Rate	:	5
Number of Internet Users	:	7,736,216
Internet Users Rank	:	78^th/195
Area	:	649,300
Area Rank	:	40^th/195
Total Population	:	43,844
Total Population Rank	:	36^th/195

Continent: Asia

Cities with > 100K popln: 14

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Afghanistan Highlights

Afghanistan is the 36^th ranked country in population and 40^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than World Average-

1. Afghanistan is the 2^nd highest ranked in Pashto out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Pashto when compared to other countries.
2. The average Persian of 195 countries in the world is 385,138. Afghanistan is the 2^nd highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Persian when compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Afghanistan is the 2^nd highest ranked in Turkmen . This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Turkmen when compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. Afghanistan is the 5^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.
2. The average Formal Jobs of the countries in the world is 10,605,934. Afghanistan is the 91^st worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate that the country is not highly urbanised or indicate that the unemployment rate is high compared to other countries
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Afghanistan is the 94^th worst ranked in Total No. of Pharmacists . This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population

Afghanistan Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Cricket Playing Nations (ICC Members)	Count	1	1	1127
2	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	12	1126
3	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	12	1129
4	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	15	1130
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	111	1230
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	104	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	9	1	1128
2	Tree density .	Density	8	1	1127
3	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	18	1127
4	Goat Meat Production (% of Total Goat Meat Production)	Percent	0	18	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	132	1235
2	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	112	1232
3	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	117	1235
4	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	112	1231
5	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	116	1234
6	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	76	1233
7	Cow Beef Production (% of Total Cow Beef Production)	Percent	0	83	1231
8	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	83	1232
9	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	83	1233
10	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	81	1231
11	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	77	1233
12	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	74	1233
13	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	74	1231
14	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	61	1233
15	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	61	1231
16	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	56	1233
17	Cow Milk Production (% of Total Cow Milk Production)	Percent	0	54	1231
18	Coal Production (% of Total Coal Production)	Percent	1	46	1235
19	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	48	1234
20	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	47	1232
21	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	48	1233
22	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	47	1231
23	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	48	1235
24	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	46	1230
25	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	45	1232
26	Apple Production (in tonnes)	Weight	1,044,287	34	1234
27	Apple Production (% of Total Apple Production)	Percent	1	34	1232
28	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	33	1234
29	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	33	1234
30	Goat Milk Production (% of Total Goat Milk Production)	Percent	0	30	1234
31	Goat Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	196,989	30	1234
32	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	29	1233
33	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	29	1230
34	Cotton Production (in 1000 480 lb. Bales)	Weight	1,707	24	1231
35	Cotton Production (% of Total Cotton Production)	Percent	1	24	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pashto	# People	259,035	2	1128
2	Persian	# People	385,138	2	1128
3	Turkmen	# People	36,979	2	1125
4	Pashto as a % of total Pashto speakers	% People	0	2	1128
5	Persian as a % of total Persian speakers	% People	0	2	1127
6	Turkmen as a % of total Turkmen speakers	% People	0	2	1128
7	Uzbek as a % of total Uzbek speakers	% People	0	2	1130
8	Urdu	# People	472,866	3	1126
9	Uzbek	# People	119,785	3	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Arabic	# People	1,760,925	26	1231
2	Arabic as a % of total Arabic speakers	% People	0	25	1235
3	English as a % of total English speakers	% People	0	17	1231
4	English	# People	3,175,743	15	1230
5	Kyrgy	# People	24,582	6	1232
6	Kyrgy as a % of total Kyrgy speakers	% People	0	5	1232
7	Urdu as a % of total Urdu speakers	% People	0	3	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	5	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	191	1232
2	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	31	1	1232
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	127	1235
4	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	117	1232
5	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	32	1	1231
6	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	95	1235
7	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	88	1232
8	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	63	1231
9	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	62	1232
10	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	56	1232
11	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	55	1231
12	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	43	1234
13	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,858,694	40	1235
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	30	1230
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	15	1230
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	3	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	16	1129
2	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	18	1125
3	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	18	1126
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	36	1130
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	36	1130
6	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	36	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	158	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	20	1128
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	23	1130
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	34	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	173	1235
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1234
3	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	141	1235
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1231
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1234
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	93	1233
7	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	39	1232
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	53	1233
9	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	60	1233
10	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	54	1230
11	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	27	1127
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	27	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	174	1233
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	173	1231
3	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	159	1234
4	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	150	1233
5	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	150	1232
6	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	150	1232
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	105	1230
8	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	72	1235
9	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	71	1231
10	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	68	1231
11	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	56	1235
12	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	54	1234
13	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	55	1231
14	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	45	1232
15	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	37	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	186	1230
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	177	1233
3	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	166	1233
4	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	158	1233
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	146	1232
6	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	137	1233
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	118	1235
8	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	105	1233
9	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	106	1233
10	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	105	1232
11	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	91	1232
12	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	92	1230
13	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	86	1231
14	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	88	1232
15	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	78	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	161	1233
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	122	1233
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	102	1234
4	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	94	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	161	1234
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	50	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	130	1234
2	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	142	1230
3	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	125	1230
4	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	613	132	1234
5	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	112	1231
6	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	130	1233
7	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	114	1233
8	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	116	1233
9	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	67	1231
10	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	71	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	88	1231
2	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	63	1234
3	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	63	1232
4	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	57	1234
5	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	57	1230
6	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	49	1232
7	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	48	1232

Afghanistan Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	English	3.85 %
2	Arabic	0.96 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Ghazni	195,907
2	Herat	610,049
3	Jalalabad	288,716
4	Kabul	4,734,799
5	Kandahar	670,241
6	Khost	164,848
7	Kunduz	276,575
8	Lashkargah	207,328
9	Mazar-i-Sharif	514,668
10	Mihtarlam	148,332
11	Puli Khumri	227,598
12	Sar-e Pol	169,258
13	Sheberghan	180,678
14	Taloqan	202,081