🇦🇫Afghanistan

Kabul

Middle East & North Africa

Low income

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Population

43.8M

2.8%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

4.76

births/woman

Life Expectancy

66.3y

GDP / capita

$416.9

Pop. Growth

2.77%

Net Migration

-74.4K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Afghanistan by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇵🇰Pakistan69.8K(95.7%)

+45%

🇹🇯Tajikistan3K(4.1%)

−87%

🇺🇿

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male22.1MTotal 43.8M21.7MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

4.0

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the Afghanistan diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Afghanistan who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇮🇷Iran, Islamic Rep.3.8M(49.8%)

+46%

🇵🇰Pakistan1.9M(25.5%)

−3%

🇩🇪Germany358.8K(4.8%)

+361%

🇹🇷Turkiye332.1K(4.4%)

11×

🇺🇸United States199.3K(2.6%)

+239%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia153.3K(2.0%)

+224%

🇬🇧United Kingdom99.4K(1.3%)

+74%

🇫🇷France89.8K(1.2%)

19×

🇦🇺Australia81.5K(1.1%)

+165%

🇸🇪Sweden79.4K(1.1%)

+488%

🇨🇦Canada70.4K(0.9%)

+71%

🇦🇹Austria54.2K(0.7%)

+546%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024