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

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 20^th highest ranked in Rural Pop. out of 195 countries in the world. 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.
2. The average Total Population (2025) of 195 countries in the world is 42,003. Afghanistan is the 36^th highest ranked country out of 195 countries. Taking into context the total population of the world, this country is more populated in comparison 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 Pharmacists (Per 10,000) of the countries in the world is 4. Afghanistan is the 38^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 45^th worst ranked in Doctors (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	1128
2	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	12	1129
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	111	1232
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	104	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pashto	# People	259,035	2	1127
2	Persian	# People	385,138	2	1125
3	Turkmen	# People	36,979	2	1130
4	Pashto as a % of total Pashto speakers	% People	0	2	1129
5	Persian as a % of total Persian speakers	% People	0	2	1128
6	Turkmen as a % of total Turkmen speakers	% People	0	2	1130
7	Uzbek as a % of total Uzbek speakers	% People	0	2	1126
8	Urdu	# People	472,866	3	1129
9	Uzbek	# People	119,785	3	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Arabic	# People	1,760,925	26	1230
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	1233
5	Kyrgy	# People	24,582	6	1231
6	Kyrgy as a % of total Kyrgy speakers	% People	0	5	1232
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	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	190	1235
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	1231
5	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	88	1230
6	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	63	1230
7	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	62	1233
8	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	56	1231
9	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	55	1232
10	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	43	1230
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	40	1230
12	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	35	1233
13	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	31	1233
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	30	1234
15	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	22	1235
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	15	1234
17	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	15	1230
18	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	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	12	1130
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	15	1125

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	1126
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	1126
6	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	38	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	158	1230
2	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	158	1232
3	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	118	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	20	1127
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	22	1125
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	34	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	173	1235
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1232
3	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	141	1230
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1232
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1231
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	93	1235
7	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	39	1235
8	1M+ Cities Ratio ( 1M+ Cities/ # Cities> 100000)		0	81	1232
9	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	53	1230
10	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	60	1231
11	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	54	1234
12	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	27	1128
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	27	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	174	1232
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	173	1231
3	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	159	1235
4	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	150	1231
5	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	150	1234
6	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	147	1231
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	105	1232
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	1233
11	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	56	1233
12	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	55	1233
13	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	55	1233
14	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	45	1235
15	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	37	1231
16	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	33	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	186	1233
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	176	1235
3	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	168	1231
4	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	165	1234
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	148	1230
6	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	140	1234
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	15	118	1235
8	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	105	1233
9	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	107	1235
10	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	105	1232
11	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	94	1235
12	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	94	1234
13	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	87	1230
14	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	92	1233
15	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	78	1232

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	1233
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	132	1235
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	112	1232
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	117	1233
6	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	81	1232
7	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	77	1231
8	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	74	1232
9	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	74	1231
10	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	61	1230
11	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	61	1234
12	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	48	1235
13	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	47	1231
14	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	46	1235
15	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	45	1231
16	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	33	1234
17	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	33	1232
18	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	29	1235
19	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	29	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	162	1230
2	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	160	1232
3	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	156	1233
4	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	151	1234
5	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	122	1230
6	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	104	1230
7	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	102	1230
8	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	100	1231
9	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	100	1231
10	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	94	1233
11	#Dentists	# People	13,328	79	1234

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

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	130	1235
2	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	142	1235
3	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	125	1234
4	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	131	1232
5	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	112	1230
6	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	130	1230
7	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	114	1232
8	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	116	1231
9	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	67	1230
10	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	71	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	1231
4	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	57	1231
5	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	57	1233
6	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	49	1230
7	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	48	1231

Afghanistan Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Pashto	43.35 %
2	Persian	31.79 %
3	English	3.85 %
4	Uzbek	3.33 %
5	Turkmen	2.89 %
6	Urdu	1.93 %
7	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