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Afghanistan AI Report

Date: December 18, 2025

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

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.

Total Population (2025)

Afghanistan is the 20^th highest ranked in Rural Pop. out of all the 195 countries.This implies that the economy of this country is majorly agriculture driven, or may imply that there is less industrialisation when compared to other countries.

Out of 195 countries in the world, Afghanistan is the 36^th highest ranked in Total Population (2025) . Taking into context the total population of the world, this country is more populated in comparison to other countries.

Literacy Rate (%)

GDP Per Capita (USD)

The Average Literacy Rate (%) of 195 countries in the world is 86. Afghanistan is the 5^th worst ranked country out of 195 countries. This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.

Out of 195 countries in the world, Afghanistan is the 10^th worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) . This implies that this country is a developing country.

Out of 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 is the 94^th worst ranked in Total No. of Pharmacists out of all the 195 countries.This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above World Average
1	Cricket Playing Nations (ICC Members)	Count	1	1	1129
2	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	12	1127
3	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	12	1130
4	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	15	1129
Below World Average
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	111	1234
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	104	1235

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

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above World Average
1	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	5	1126
Below World Average
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	191	1230
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	127	1234
3	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	117	1233
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	95	1230
5	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	88	1234
6	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	63	1231
7	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	62	1233
8	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	56	1235
9	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	55	1235
10	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	43	1235
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,858,694	40	1234
12	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	31	1234
13	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	30	1235
14	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	15	1234
15	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	15	1230
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	3	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above World Average
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	16	1126
2	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	18	1126
3	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	36	1126
4	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	36	1129
5	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	36	1128
6	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	38	1126
Below World Average
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	158	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above World Average
1	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	18	1125
2	Goat Meat Production (% of Total Goat Meat Production)	Percent	0	18	1126
Below World Average
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	174	1232
2	Tree density .	Density	828	165	1230
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	132	1235
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	112	1234
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	117	1234
6	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	112	1234
7	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	116	1231
8	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	76	1233
9	Cow Beef Production (% of Total Cow Beef Production)	Percent	0	83	1234
10	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	83	1230
11	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	83	1233
12	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	81	1233
13	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	77	1230
14	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	74	1234
15	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	74	1232
16	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	61	1234
17	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	61	1230
18	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	56	1230
19	Cow Milk Production (% of Total Cow Milk Production)	Percent	0	54	1234
20	Coal Production (% of Total Coal Production)	Percent	1	46	1231
21	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	48	1233
22	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	47	1235
23	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	48	1230
24	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	47	1233
25	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	48	1230
26	Rice prod.	Tons	5,090,580	46	1231
27	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	45	1232
28	Apple Production (in tonnes)	Weight	1,044,287	34	1230
29	Apple Production (% of Total Apple Production)	Percent	1	34	1234
30	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	33	1233
31	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	33	1234
32	Goat Milk Production (% of Total Goat Milk Production)	Percent	0	30	1234
33	Goat Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	196,989	30	1235
34	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	29	1231
35	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	29	1232
36	Cotton Production (in 1000 480 lb. Bales)	Weight	1,707	24	1230
37	Cotton Production (% of Total Cotton Production)	Percent	1	24	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above World Average
1	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	20	1126
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	23	1130
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	34	1129
Below World Average
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	173	1232
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1234
3	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	141	1231
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1230
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1234
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	93	1232
7	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	39	1232
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	53	1234
9	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	60	1234
10	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	54	1231
11	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above World Average
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	27	1126
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	27	1129
Below World Average
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	174	1234
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	173	1230
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	1234
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	105	1231
8	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	72	1235
9	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	71	1234
10	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	68	1234
11	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	56	1231
12	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	55	1234
13	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	55	1233
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 World Average
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	6,447	186	1230
2	GDP Per Capita at PPP (USD)	$	30,228	176	1231
3	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	134	1233
4	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	130	1231
5	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		46	142	1230
6	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	597	141	1231
7	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	125	1234
8	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	130	1234
9	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	114	1232
10	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	116	1230
11	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	67	1234
12	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		53	71	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below World Average
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	69	186	1231
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	32	177	1231
3	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	36	165	1234
4	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	24	157	1231
5	Instagram Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	151	1232
6	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	12	148	1233
7	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	131	1234
8	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	31	131	1231
9	Instagram Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	16	131	1234
10	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	123	1235
11	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	106	1231
12	LinkedIn users	# People	6,652,451	106	1230
13	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	105	1234
14	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	90	1231
15	Instagram Users as a % of Total Instagram Users	% People	0	94	1230
16	Instagram Users	Absolute	3,609,530	94	1235
17	Twitter users	# People	2,908,615	91	1230
18	Facebook users	# People	6,739,260	88	1230
19	Internet Users	# People	28,115,900	78	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below World Average
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	162	1233
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	122	1232
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	102	1234
4	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	94	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below World Average
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	161	1235
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	50	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below World Average
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	88	1230
2	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	63	1234
3	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	63	1233
4	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	57	1231
5	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	57	1232
6	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	49	1235
7	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	48	1230

Language

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

Mother Tongue : Pashto

Literacy Rate (%) : 37.30

Basic Details

Country Capital	:	Kabul
GDP Per Capita	:	409
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

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

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