Economy - overview:
Afghanistan's economy is recovering from decades of conflict. The economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of international assistance, the recovery of the agricultural sector, and service sector growth. Despite the progress of the past few years, Afghanistan is extremely poor, landlocked, and highly dependent on foreign aid. Much of the population continues to suffer from shortages of housing, clean water, electricity, medical care, and jobs. Criminality, insecurity, weak governance, and the Afghan Government's difficulty in extending rule of law to all parts of the country pose challenges to future economic growth. Afghanistan's living standards are among the lowest in the world. While the international community remains committed to Afghanistan's development, pledging over $67 billion at nine donors' conferences between 2003-10, the Government of Afghanistan will need to overcome a number of challenges, including low revenue collection, anemic job creation, high levels of corruption, weak government capacity, and poor public infrastructure.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (official exchange rate): GDP - real growth rate: GDP - per capita (PPP): GDP - composition by sector: Labor force: Labor force - by occupation: Unemployment rate: Population below poverty line: Household income or consumption by percentage share: Distribution of family income - Gini index: Investment (gross fixed): Budget: Taxes and other revenues: Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): Inflation rate (consumer prices): Commercial bank prime lending rate: Stock of narrow money: Stock of broad money: Stock of domestic credit: Market value of publicly traded shares: Agriculture - products: Industries: Industrial production growth rate: Electricity - production: Electricity - consumption: Electricity - exports: Electricity - imports: Oil - production: Oil - consumption: Oil - exports: Oil - imports: Natural gas - production: Natural gas - consumption: Natural gas - exports: Natural gas - imports: Natural gas - proved reserves: Current account balance: Exports: Exports - commodities: Exports - partners: Imports: Imports - commodities: Imports - partners: Debt - external: Exchange rates:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Afghanistan on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Afghanistan Economy 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Afghanistan Economy 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
$29.99 billion (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 110
note: data are in 2011 US dollars
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$17.9 billion (2011 est.)
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7.1% (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 18
[see also: GDP - real growth rate country ranks ]
$1,000 (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 212
note: data are in 2011 US dollars
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agriculture: 31.6%
[see also: GDP - composition by sector - agriculture country ranks ]
industry: 26.3%
[see also: GDP - composition by sector - industry country ranks ]
services: 42.1%
[see also: GDP - composition by sector - services country ranks ]
note: data exclude opium production (2008 est.)
15 million (2004 est.)
country comparison to the world: 39
[see also: Labor force country ranks ]
agriculture: 78.6%
[see also: Labor force - by occupation - agriculture country ranks ]
industry: 5.7%
[see also: Labor force - by occupation - industry country ranks ]
services: 15.7% (FY08/09 est.)
[see also: Labor force - by occupation - services country ranks ]
35% (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 180
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36% (FY08/09)
[see also: Population below poverty line country ranks ]
lowest 10%: 3.8%
[see also: Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10% country ranks ]
highest 10%: 24%
[see also: Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10% country ranks ]
29.4 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 119
[see also: Distribution of family income - Gini index country ranks ]
NA%
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revenues: $1.58 billion
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expenditures: $3.3 billion
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note: Afghanistan received $15.7 billion in 2010/2011 (2011 est.)
8.8% of GDP (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 208
[see also: Taxes and other revenues country ranks ]
-9.6% of GDP (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 193
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7.7% (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 162
[see also: Inflation rate (consumer prices) country ranks ]
15.689% (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 41
[see also: Commercial bank prime lending rate country ranks ]
$5.307 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 94
[see also: Stock of narrow money country ranks ]
$5.659 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 125
[see also: Stock of broad money country ranks ]
$363.6 million (31 December 2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 175
[see also: Stock of domestic credit country ranks ]
$NA
[see also: Market value of publicly traded shares country ranks ]
opium, wheat, fruits, nuts; wool, mutton, sheepskins, lambskins
small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, apparel, food-products, non-alcoholic beverages, mineral water, cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, coal, copper
NA%
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285.5 million kWh (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 168
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231.1 million kWh (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 179
[see also: Electricity - consumption country ranks ]
0 kWh (2009 est.)
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120 million kWh (2008 est.)
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0 bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 149
[see also: Oil - production country ranks ]
4,800 bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 171
[see also: Oil - consumption country ranks ]
0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 147
[see also: Oil - exports country ranks ]
4,512 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 162
[see also: Oil - imports country ranks ]
30 million cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 87
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30 million cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 109
[see also: Natural gas - consumption country ranks ]
0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 50
[see also: Natural gas - exports country ranks ]
0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 147
[see also: Natural gas - imports country ranks ]
49.55 billion cu m (1 January 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 66
[see also: Natural gas - proved reserves country ranks ]
-$2.475 billion (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 159
[see also: Current account balance country ranks ]
$571 million (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 166
note: not including illicit exports or reexports
[see also: Exports country ranks ]
opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems
Pakistan 25.9%, India 25.5%, US 14.9%, Tajikistan 9.6%, Germany 5% (2010)
$5.3 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 122
[see also: Imports country ranks ]
machinery and other capital goods, food, textiles, petroleum products
US 29.1%, Pakistan 23.3%, India 7.6%, Russia 4.5%, Germany 4.2% (2010)
$1.28 billion (FY10/11)
country comparison to the world: 149
[see also: Debt - external country ranks ]
afghanis (AFA) per US dollar -
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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