Afghanistan's population rose from 17.8M in 1996 to 43.8M in 2025.
Afghanistan · Population & demographics
Size, growth, ages, births, deaths, urbanisation and migration.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Afghanistan's population growth fell from 4.0 % in 1996 to 2.8 % in 2025.
Afghanistan's population density rose from 24.9 in 1994 to 63.6 in 2023.
Afghanistan's population, female (% of total) fell from 50.0 % in 1996 to 49.5 % in 2025.
Afghanistan's urbanisation rose from 18.0 % in 1996 to 25.9 % in 2025.
Afghanistan's urban population rose from 3.19M in 1996 to 11.4M in 2025.
Afghanistan's rural population rose from 14.6M in 1996 to 32.5M in 2025.
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- Fertilitydown −1.6 %9th of 217
- Birth rate, crudedown −1.2 %9th of 217
- Death rate, crudedown −1.6 %172nd of 217
- Adolescent fertility ratedown −4.0 %167th of 217
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- Median ageup +0.2 yrs206th of 216
- Children (0–14)down −0.3 pts11th of 217
- Working age (15–64)up +0.3 pts204th of 217
- Seniors (65+)up +0.0 pts210th of 217
- Age dependency ratiodown −1.0 pts14th of 217
- Old-age dependency ratioup +0.0 pts209th of 217
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- Net migrationdown −68.8 %200th of 217
- Migrant stockdown −0.2 pts206th of 216
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- Refugees hosteddown −40.1 %81st of 178
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- Life expectancyup +0.3 yrs184th of 217
- Life expectancy at birth, femaleup +0.3 yrs188th of 217
- Life expectancy at birth, maleup +0.2 yrs173rd of 217