38,346,720 (2022 est.)
noun: Afghan(s)
adjective: Afghan
Current, reliable statistical data on ethnicity in Afghanistan are not available; Afghanistan's 2004 Constitution cited Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkman, Baluch, Pachaie, Nuristani, Aymaq, Arab, Qirghiz, Qizilbash, Gujur, and Brahwui ethnicities; Afghanistan has dozens of other small ethnic groups
Afghan Persian or Dari (official, lingua franca) 77%, Pashto (official) 48%, Uzbeki 11%, English 6%, Turkmani 3%, Urdu 3%, Pachaie 1%, Nuristani 1%, Arabic 1%, Balochi 1%, other
major-language sample(s):
کتاب حقایق جهان، مرجعی ضروری برای اطلاعات اولیە (Dari)
د دنیا د حقائېقو کتاب، بنیادی معلوماتو لپاره ضروری سرچینه- (Pashto)Muslim 99.7% (Sunni 84.7 - 89.7%, Shia 10 - 15%), other
0-14 years: 40.62% (male 7,562,703/female 7,321,646)
15-24 years: 21.26% (male 3,960,044/female 3,828,670)
25-54 years: 31.44% (male 5,858,675/female 5,661,887)
55-64 years: 4.01% (male 724,597/female 744,910)
65 years and over: 2.68% (male 451,852/female 528,831) (2020 est.)
total dependency ratio: 84.6
youth dependency ratio: 80.2
elderly dependency ratio: 4.8
potential support ratio: 22.5 (2021 est.)
total: 19.5 years
male: 19.4 years
female: 19.5 years (2020 est.)
2.3% (2022 est.)
35.46 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
12.33 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
-0.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)
populations tend to cluster in the foothills and periphery of the rugged Hindu Kush range; smaller groups are found in many of the country's interior valleys; in general, the east is more densely settled, while the south is sparsely populated
urban population: 26.9% of total population (2023)
rate of urbanization: 3.34% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
4.458 million KABUL (capital) (2022)
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female
total population: 1.03 male(s)/female (2022 est.)
19.9 years (2015 est.)
note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49
638 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)
total: 104.89 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 113.33 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 96.03 deaths/1,000 live births (2022 est.)
total population: 53.65 years
male: 52.1 years
female: 55.28 years (2022 est.)
4.62 children born/woman (2022 est.)
18.9% (2018)
note: percent of women aged 12-49
improved: urban: 100% of population
rural: 68.3% of population
total: 76.5% of population 70.2%
unimproved: urban: 0% of population
rural: 31.7% of population
total: 23.5% of population (2020 est.)
13.2% of GDP (2019)
0.25 physicians/1,000 population (2020)
0.4 beds/1,000 population (2017)
improved: urban: 88.2% of population
rural: 52% of population
total: 61.4% of population
unimproved: urban: 11.8% of population
rural: 48% of population
total: 38.6% of population (2020 est.)
(2021 est.)
degree of risk: intermediate (2020)
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever, malaria
note: Afghanistan is one of two countries with endemic wild polio virus (the other is Pakistan) and considered high risk for international spread of the disease; before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine
5.5% (2016)
total: 0.01 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
beer: 0 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
wine: 0 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
spirits: 0.01 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
other alcohols: 0 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
total: 23.3% (2020 est.)
male: 39.4% (2020 est.)
female: 7.2% (2020 est.)
19.1% (2018)
women married by age 15: 4.2%
women married by age 18: 28.3% (2017 est.)
2.9% of GDP (2020 est.)
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 37.3%
male: 52.1%
female: 22.6% (2021)
total: 10 years
male: 13 years
female: 8 years (2018)
total: 8.7%
male: 8.4%
female: 9.4% (2021 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding Afghanistan on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Afghanistan 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Afghanistan 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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