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IndicatorAFGAfghanistanMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.04rank #150
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile21.4rank #184
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.01rank #155
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.02rank #157
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.02rank #151
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile13.7rank #200
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.04rank #150
Military spending% GDP1.8%rank #53
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.05rank #142
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile28.2rank #200
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile30.6rank #192
Rule of Law0-100 percentile23.7rank #204
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.08rank #145
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.07rank #150
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.02rank #152
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile19.2rank #203
Women in parliament% seats27%rank #72
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.03rank #147
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment51.6%rank #22
Agriculture value added% GDP34.3%rank #7
Current account balance% GDP-15.7%rank #168
Employment-to-population ratio%32.4%rank #177
External debt stocks% GNI19.9%rank #13
FDI net inflows% GDP0.14%rank #177
GDPcurrent US$17.78Brank #134
GDP growth%1.9%rank #145
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$416.9rank #199
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $1,964.5rank #185
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $1,971.5rank #180
Government expenditure% GDP39.2%rank #16
Gross capital formation% GDP17.1%rank #137
Gross savings% GDP-2.7%rank #158
High-technology exports% manuf. exports0%rank #162
Industry value added% GDP14.5%rank #159
Inflation%-6.6%rank #1
Labour force participation rate%37.3%rank #176
Personal remittances received% GDP4%rank #62
Tax revenue% GDP9.9%rank #128
Trade openness% GDP83.8%rank #81
Unemployment% labor force13.4%rank #162
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%13.1%rank #161
Vulnerable employment% employment81.8%rank #174
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2416.8%rank #118
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2416.2%rank #115
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop80.8%rank #134
Basic sanitation access% pop54.5%rank #141
Child mortalityper 1005.3rank #132
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,314.6rank #161
DTP3 immunization coverage%59%rank #40
Health spending% GDP15%rank #4
Infant mortalityper 1k births48.3rank #138
Life expectancyyears66.3rank #184
Maternal mortalityper 100k521rank #111
Measles immunization% children55%rank #39
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%55%rank #39
Physiciansper 1k0.32rank #43
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m337.9rank #175
Road traffic deathsper 100k15.9rank #66
Smoking prevalence% adults22.1%rank #78
Suicide mortality rateper 100k3.6rank #39
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k203rank #121
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births53rank #171
Undernourishment% pop28.1%rank #72
Education
Adult literacy%37.3%rank #43
Education spending% GDP4.3%rank #80
Expected years of schoolingyears10.8rank #165
Mean years of schoolingyears2.5rank #184
Primary completion rate% relevant age90.3%rank #97
Primary enrollment% gross112.2%rank #21
Secondary enrollment% gross59.6%rank #128
Tertiary enrollment% gross10.9%rank #122
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00035rank #9
Fertility ratebirths/woman4.8rank #9
Median age of populationyears16.9rank #207
Net migration rateper 1,000-1.2rank #143
Populationpeople43.84Mrank #36
Population growth%2.8%rank #20
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years70.9rank #176
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands76,885.1rank #25
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age83.8rank #14
Urban population%25.9%rank #193
Climate
CO₂ emissionst10.83Mrank #108
CO₂ per capitat0.25rank #186
Electricity access% pop87.8%rank #34
Electricity from coal% generation3%rank #17
Electricity from hydro% generation75.8%rank #19
Electricity from solar% generation11.1%rank #34
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Forest area% land1.9%rank #188
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita0.76rank #9
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh131.3rank #33
Renewable electricity%86.9%rank #20
Renewable energy share%20%rank #31
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e31.5rank #82
Society
Asylum seekerspeople270,007rank #177
Female labor participation%5.1%rank #181
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1000.08rank #161
Gender Development Indexratio0.66rank #110
Gender Inequality Index0-10.66rank #149
Homicide rateper 100k4rank #69
Human Development Index0-10.5rank #148
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.32rank #133
Internally displaced personspeople3.2Mrank #29
Internet users% pop16.1%rank #175
Life satisfaction0-101.4rank #144
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.49rank #114
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.07rank #167
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.24rank #132
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.6rank #168
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.9rank #193
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people20,869rank #82
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people2.67Mrank #173
Youth NEET rate%55.5%rank #182
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year306rank #21
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths780rank #33
Hazard & exposure0-107.7rank #66
Human hazard & exposure0-109rank #67
INFORM risk score0-107.8rank #61
Lack of coping capacity0-107.4rank #64
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-106.9rank #59
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-107.9rank #57
Natural hazard & exposure0-105.7rank #44
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year332rank #26
Socio-economic vulnerability0-108rank #73
Vulnerability0-108.3rank #65
Vulnerable groups0-108.6rank #71
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