Afghanistan Analytics

Afghanistan is a mid-size country with 0.5% of the world's population. It has 2 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

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

Mother Tongue : Pashto

Literacy Rate (%) : 37.3

Country Capital	:	Kabul
GDP Per capita	:	0
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	186^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	61
Unemployment Rate	:	14
Number of Internet Users	:	7,020,000
Internet Users Rank	:	78^th/195
Area	:	649,299
Area Rank	:	40^th/195
Total Population	:	40,099
Total Population Rank	:	37^th/195

Continent: Asia

Cities with > 100K popln: 14

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Afghanistan Highlights

Afghanistan is the 37^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.

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 Total No. of Pharmacists of the countries in the world is 28,678. Afghanistan is the 89^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Afghanistan is the 91^st worst ranked in Formal Jobs . This may indicate that the country is not highly urbanised or indicate that the unemployment rate is high compared to other countries

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	1126
2	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	12	1129
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	110	1231
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	126	102	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pashto	# People	259,035	2	1125
2	Persian	# People	385,138	2	1127
3	Turkmen	# People	36,979	2	1129
4	Pashto as a % of total Pashto speakers	% People	0	2	1125
5	Persian as a % of total Persian speakers	% People	0	2	1129
6	Turkmen as a % of total Turkmen speakers	% People	0	2	1128
7	Uzbek as a % of total Uzbek speakers	% People	0	2	1129
8	Urdu	# People	472,866	3	1130
9	Uzbek	# People	119,785	3	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Arabic	# People	1,760,925	26	1233
2	Arabic as a % of total Arabic speakers	% People	0	25	1230
3	English as a % of total English speakers	% People	0	17	1235
4	English	# People	3,174,835	15	1234
5	Kyrgy	# People	24,582	6	1235
6	Kyrgy as a % of total Kyrgy speakers	% People	0	5	1234
7	Urdu as a % of total Urdu speakers	% People	0	3	1235

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	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	191	1232
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	127	1231
3	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	117	1233
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	95	1231
5	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	88	1234
6	Total Literate Pop.	# People	68,251,097	64	1235
7	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	62	1230
8	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	56	1231
9	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	55	1231
10	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	43	1231
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	40	1234
12	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	35	1233
13	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	31	1235
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	30	1233
15	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	22	1234
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	15	1230
17	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	15	1230
18	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	3	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	9	1130
2	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	19	1125
3	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	38	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	157	1234
2	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	37	1230
3	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	37	1230
4	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	37	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	1	13	1127
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	15	1129

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	25	1125
2	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	122	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	172	1233
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	14	87	1231
3	# Cities>500000	# Cities	8	66	1232
4	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1233
5	# Cities>100000	# Cities	42	94	1231
6	# Cities>1M	# Cities	3	40	1232
7	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	53	1232
8	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	59	1233
9	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	54	1233
10	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1230
11	Rural Pop.	# People	36,027,518	21	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	26	1125
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	29	1125
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	29	1130
4	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	65	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	175	1235
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	173	1234
3	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	162	1235
4	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	152	1235
5	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	153	1235
6	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	151	1231
7	Formal Jobs	# People	20,455,444	106	1233
8	Employment in Services	# People	19,494,546	70	1232
9	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	28,805,473	63	1234
10	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	55	1232
11	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	3,296,469	43	1231
12	Labour Force Participation	# People	23,249,057	42	1231
13	Employment in Agriculture	# People	10,466,926	37	1233
14	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	33	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	67	185	1231
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	54	159	1230
3	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	126	1234
4	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	78	1232
5	Facebook users	# People	16,391,045	77	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	174	1230
2	Tree density .	Density	828	165	1230
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	132	1233
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	112	1230
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	117	1232
6	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	1	90	1231
7	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	92	1230
8	Honey prod.	Weight	14,821	70	1235
9	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	1	71	1232
10	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	2	58	1231
11	Barley prod.	Weight	1,558,004	58	1230
12	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	47	1234
13	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	47	1230
14	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	46	1234
15	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	1	46	1233
16	Wheat prod.	Weight	6,681,335	29	1235
17	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	1	30	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	166	1233
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	35	123	1232
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	28,678	108	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	161	1231
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	50	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	146	1231
2	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	122	1234
3	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	127	1233
4	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	106	1233
5	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	113	1234
6	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	10,566	107	1234
7	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	67	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	96	1235
2	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	62	1234
3	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	1	57	1234
4	Total Military Force	# People	353,432	59	1232
5	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	1	59	1233
6	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	49	1231
7	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	129	41	1232

Afghanistan Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Pashto	47.4 %
2	Persian	34.76 %
3	English	4.21 %
4	Uzbek	3.64 %
5	Turkmen	3.16 %
6	Urdu	2.11 %
7	Arabic	1.05 %

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