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	:	352
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	180^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	61
Unemployment Rate	:	14
Number of Internet Users	:	7,020,000
Internet Users Rank	:	78^th/195
Area	:	99
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.

Better than World Average-

1. Afghanistan is the 19^th highest ranked in Total Military Force out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that the country is facing higher threats compared to other countries or may imply that the size or population of the country is higher.
2. The average Rural Pop. of 195 countries in the world is 18,013,759. Afghanistan is the 20^th highest ranked country out of 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.

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 GDP Per Capita (USD) of the countries in the world is 18,253. Afghanistan is the 16^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country is a developing country.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Afghanistan is the 38^th worst ranked in Pharmacists (Per 10,000) . This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.

Afghanistan Metrics

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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	9,744,062	12	1130
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	110	1231
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	126	102	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pashto	# People	259,035	2	1130
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	1126
5	Persian as a % of total Persian speakers	% People	0	2	1128
6	Turkmen as a % of total Turkmen speakers	% People	0	2	1129
7	Uzbek as a % of total Uzbek speakers	% People	0	2	1126
8	Urdu	# People	472,866	3	1125
9	Uzbek	# People	119,785	3	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Arabic	# People	1,760,925	26	1232
2	Arabic as a % of total Arabic speakers	% People	0	25	1231
3	English as a % of total English speakers	% People	0	17	1235
4	English	# People	3,175,743	15	1231
5	Kyrgy	# People	24,582	6	1234
6	Kyrgy as a % of total Kyrgy speakers	% People	0	5	1233
7	Urdu as a % of total Urdu speakers	% People	0	3	1233

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	1230
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	127	1232
3	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	117	1230
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	95	1231
5	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	88	1232
6	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,125,548	63	1234
7	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	62	1231
8	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	56	1232
9	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	55	1234
10	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	43	1235
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	40	1233
12	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	35	1235
13	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	31	1232
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	30	1233
15	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	22	1231
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	15	1235
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	1126
2	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	19	1126
3	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	38	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	157	1231
2	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	0	157	1232
3	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	342	125	1233
4	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	37	1231
5	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	37	1232
6	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	37	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	12	1128
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	15	1125

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	122,909	19	1128
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	19	1129
3	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	0	29	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	62	1233
2	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	56	1230
3	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	49	1233
4	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	129	41	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	20	1130
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	25	1129
3	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	122	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	172	1234
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1233
3	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1232
4	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1230
5	1M+ Cities per 100000 ( 1M+ Cities/ Tot Pop.)* 100000		0	99	1231
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	93	1235
7	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	39	1231
8	1M+ Cities Ratio ( 1M+ Cities/ # Cities> 100000)		0	81	1233
9	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	53	1230
10	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	59	1234
11	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	54	1235
12	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	26	1129
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	29	1128
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	29	1128
4	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	64	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	175	1232
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	24	172	1230
3	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	162	1232
4	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	152	1231
5	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	55	152	1231
6	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	75	150	1235
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,227,722	105	1233
8	Employment in Services	# People	9,747,273	69	1230
9	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	14,402,736	62	1230
10	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	55	1233
11	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,648,234	42	1231
12	Labour Force Participation	# People	11,624,528	41	1230
13	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,233,463	36	1231
14	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	33	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	66	184	1234
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	# People	29	175	1232
3	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	60	169	1232
4	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	# People	34	163	1232
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	# People	14	148	1233
6	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	125	1231
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	# People	16	120	1231
8	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	# People	0	105	1235
9	LinkedIn users	# People	5,792,754	106	1230
10	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	# People	0	90	1235
11	Twitter users	# People	3,240,046	92	1234
12	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	78	1235
13	Facebook users	# People	17,943,893	73	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	18,253	180	1234
2	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	7,895	152	1230
3	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	146	1234
4	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	122	1234
5	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	127	1232
6	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	106	1234
7	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	113	1234
8	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	67	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	174	1231
2	Tree density .	Density	828	165	1234
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	132	1233
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	112	1233
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	117	1231
6	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	89	1231
7	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	92	1231
8	Honey prod.	Weight	14,821	70	1230
9	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	70	1233
10	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	57	1232
11	Barley prod.	Weight	1,558,004	58	1234
12	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	47	1230
13	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	46	1232
14	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	46	1231
15	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	45	1231
16	Wheat prod.	Weight	6,681,335	29	1232
17	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	29	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	166	1230
2	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	44	160	1234
3	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	156	1233
4	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	148	1235
5	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	122	1234
6	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	101	1231
7	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	14,339	107	1234
8	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	100	1233
9	Total No. of Doctors	# People	73,975	90	1234
10	#Dentists	# People	13,328	79	1230

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	1230

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