Afghanistan's life expectancy rose from 52.1 yrs in 1995 to 66.3 yrs in 2024.
Afghanistan · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Afghanistan's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 46.0 yrs in 2000 to 50.4 yrs in 2021.
Afghanistan's infant mortality fell from 126.0 ‰ in 1995 to 48.3 ‰ in 2024.
Afghanistan's under-5 mortality rate fell from 153.4 ‰ in 1995 to 53.0 ‰ in 2024.
Afghanistan's maternal mortality ratio fell from 1,396.0 /100k in 1994 to 521.0 /100k in 2023.
Afghanistan's ncd mortality fell from 43.2 % in 2000 to 32.7 % in 2021.
Afghanistan's suicide mortality rate fell from 4.4 /100k in 2000 to 3.6 /100k in 2021.
Afghanistan's mortality caused by road traffic injury rose from 14.7 /100k in 2000 to 15.9 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingdown −8.1 pts4th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)down −26.8 %165th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −0.8 pts189th of 192
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- Physiciansup +25.3 %48th of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +21.7 %74th of 79
- Hospital bedsdown −2.8 %75th of 75
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts182nd of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts185th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −0.5 %175th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.6 pts125th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.6 pts117th of 141