Prarang: G2C

Afghanistan AI Report

Date: July 26, 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)

Out of 195 countries in the world, Afghanistan is the 20^th highest ranked in Rural Pop. . 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.

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

Pharmacists (Per 10,000)

Doctors (Per 10,000)

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.

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

Out of 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 is the 45^th worst ranked in Doctors (Per 10,000) 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 than World Average-
1	Cricket Playing Nations (ICC Members)	Count	1	1	1130
2	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	12	1128
3	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	12	1126
4	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	15	1126
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	111	1235
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	104	1230

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	1129
3	Turkmen	# People	36,979	2	1130
4	Pashto as a % of total Pashto speakers	% People	0	2	1125
5	Persian as a % of total Persian speakers	% People	0	2	1125
6	Turkmen as a % of total Turkmen speakers	% People	0	2	1127
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	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Arabic	# People	1,760,925	26	1231
2	Arabic as a % of total Arabic speakers	% People	0	25	1232
3	English as a % of total English speakers	% People	0	17	1230
4	English	# People	3,175,743	15	1231
5	Kyrgy	# People	24,582	6	1235
6	Kyrgy as a % of total Kyrgy speakers	% People	0	5	1233
7	Urdu as a % of total Urdu speakers	% People	0	3	1232

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	1230
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	127	1232
3	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	117	1235
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	1232
7	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	62	1234
8	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	56	1231
9	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	55	1233
10	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	43	1230
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	40	1231
12	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	35	1231
13	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	33	1230
14	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	31	1234
15	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	30	1231
16	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	22	1232
17	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	15	1232
18	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	15	1234
19	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	3	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	16	1128
2	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	18	1128
3	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	36	1126
4	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	36	1125
5	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	36	1129
6	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	38	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	44	1232
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	156	1232
3	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	118	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	18	1128
2	Goat Meat Production (% of Total Goat Meat Production)	Percent	0	18	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	174	1230
2	Tree density .	Density	828	165	1231
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	132	1234
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	112	1233
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	117	1233
6	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	112	1235
7	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	116	1232
8	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	76	1233
9	Cow Beef Production (% of Total Cow Beef Production)	Percent	0	83	1231
10	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	83	1232
11	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	83	1232
12	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	81	1234
13	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	77	1235
14	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	74	1235
15	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	74	1233
16	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	61	1235
17	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	61	1234
18	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	56	1233
19	Cow Milk Production (% of Total Cow Milk Production)	Percent	0	54	1232
20	Coal Production (% of Total Coal Production)	Percent	1	46	1231
21	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	48	1231
22	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	47	1235
23	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	48	1235
24	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	47	1230
25	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	48	1234
26	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	46	1232
27	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	45	1232
28	Apple Production (in tonnes)	Weight	1,044,287	34	1233
29	Apple Production (% of Total Apple Production)	Percent	1	34	1233
30	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	33	1235
31	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	33	1231
32	Goat Milk Production (% of Total Goat Milk Production)	Percent	0	30	1234
33	Goat Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	196,989	30	1232
34	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	29	1232
35	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	29	1232
36	Cotton Production (in 1000 480 lb. Bales)	Weight	1,707	24	1234
37	Cotton Production (% of Total Cotton Production)	Percent	1	24	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	20	1125
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	23	1129
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	34	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	172	1234
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1231
3	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	141	1230
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1232
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1232
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	93	1230
7	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	39	1235
8	1M+ Cities Ratio ( 1M+ Cities/ # Cities> 100000)		0	81	1234
9	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	53	1233
10	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	60	1235
11	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	54	1231
12	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1232

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	1234
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	173	1232
3	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	159	1235
4	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	150	1234
5	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	150	1233
6	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	150	1233
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	105	1230
8	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	72	1230
9	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	71	1231
10	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	68	1234
11	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	42	1230
12	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	56	1233
13	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	55	1233
14	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	45	1231
15	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	37	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	18,051	186	1231
2	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	134	1231
3	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	130	1233
4	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		46	142	1231
5	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	597	137	1232
6	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	125	1233
7	GDP Per Capita at PPP (USD)	$	30,228	132	1234
8	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	130	1231
9	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	114	1231
10	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	116	1231
11	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	67	1231
12	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		53	71	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	186	1234
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	177	1232
3	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	166	1234
4	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	158	1233
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	146	1231
6	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	137	1232
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	118	1231
8	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	105	1232
9	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	106	1232
10	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	105	1231
11	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	91	1235
12	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	92	1234
13	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	86	1230
14	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	88	1235
15	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	78	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	161	1234
2	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	160	1234
3	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	156	1235
4	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	21	147	1234
5	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	122	1235
6	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	102	1235
7	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	100	1233
8	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	100	1232
9	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	94	1232
10	#Dentists	# People	13,328	79	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	161	1230
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	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	88	1235
2	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	63	1230
3	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	63	1230
4	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	57	1235
5	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	57	1235
6	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	49	1233
7	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	48	1230

LANGUAGES

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

Mother Tongue : Pashto

Literacy Rate (%) : 37.3

Details

Country Capital	:	Kabul
GDP Per capita	:	409
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	186^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	66
Unemployment Rate	:	6
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