Afghanistan
61 figures for Afghanistan, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Afghanistan compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $417 (2024)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $2,236 (2024)
- Economic growth +1.9% (2024)
- Unemployment 13.4% (2025)
- Inflation −6.6% (2024)
- Exports 15.7% (2024)
- Income per person $1,972 (2023)
- Household wealth 56.5 (2018)
- Poorer households 40.5% (2018)
- Wealth inequality 0.16 (2018)
- Women in paid work 10.5% (2019)
People
- Population 41.5 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.77% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.76 (2024)
- Typical age 16.9 (2023)
- Living in cities 25.9% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.496 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.660 (2023)
- People per household 11.4 (2018)
- People over 65 2.6% (2018)
- Children under 15 46.6% (2018)
- Women’s age at first marriage 18.7 (2018)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.8 (2018)
Health
- Life expectancy 66.0 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 53.0 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 521 (2023)
- Health spending per person $59 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 55% (2024)
- Overweight adults 48.6% (2022)
- Homes with piped water 5.0% (2018)
- Homes with a flush toilet 15.4% (2018)
Education
- Years of schooling 2.5 (2023)
- Expected years in school 10.8 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 59.6% (2023)
- Education spending 4.3% (2017)
- Teens in school 56.5% (2018)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.254 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 10.8 million (2024)
- Forest cover 1.9% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 40.0 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 20.0% (2021)
- Average temperature 10.8 (2022)
Energy
- Access to electricity 87.8% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 86.9% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 3.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 54.0% (2018)
Technology
- Internet users 16.1% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 56.3 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.1 (2022)
- Homes with a mobile phone 99.9% (2018)
Food and farming
- Hunger 28.1% (2023)
- Cereal yield 2,303 (2023)
- Farmland 58.4% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 51.6% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.07 (2025)
- Human rights 0.04 (2025)
- Control of corruption −1.31 (2025)
- Women in parliament 27.0% (2021)
- Military spending 1.8% (2021)
- Clean government 50.3 (2022)