This article is about the population of the country of Afghanistan. For ethnic groups, see Ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
Demographics of Afghanistan
Afghanistan population pyramid in 2020
Population
41,403,465 (2023)[1]
Growth rate
2.34% (2016)
Birth rate
35.8 births/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Death rate
7.3 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Life expectancy
63.3 years (2019)[2][3]
• male
63.2 years (2019)
• female
63.2 years (2019)
Fertility rate
4.64 children born/woman (2021 est.)
Infant mortality rate
66.3 deaths/1,000 live births[4]
Age structure
0–14 years
42.3% (male 6,464,070/female 6,149,468)
15–64 years
55.3% (male 8,460,486/female 8,031,968)
65 and over
2.4% (male 349,349/female 380,051)
Sex ratio
At birth
1.05 male/female
Under 15
1.03 male/female
15–64 years
1.04 male/female
65 and over
0.87 male/female
Nationality
Nationality
noun: Afghan(s)
Major ethnic
Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, and others
Language
Official
(Dari)[5] and Pashto
Spoken
(Dari), Pashto, Uzbeki, and other
Population, fertility rate and net reproduction rate, United Nations estimates
The population of Afghanistan is around 41 million as of 2023.[1] The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multilingual society, reflecting its location astride historic trade and invasion routes between Central Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Ethnic groups in the country include Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, as well as smaller groups such as Baloch, Nuristani, Turkmen, Aimaq, Mongol and some others which are less known.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Together they make up the contemporary Afghan people.
Approximately 46% of the population is under 15 years of age, and 74% of all Afghans live in rural areas.[4] The average woman gives birth to five children during her entire life, the highest fertility rate outside of Africa. About 6.8% of all babies die in child-birth or infancy.[4] The average life expectancy of the nation was reported in 2019 at around 63 years,[2][3] and only 0.04% of the population has HIV.[11]
Persian (Dari) and Pashto are the official languages of the country.[5] Dari functions as the inter-ethnic lingua franca for the vast majority. Pashto is widely used in the regions south of the Hindu Kush mountains and as far as the Indus River in neighbouring Pakistan. Uzbek and Turkmen are smaller languages spoken in parts of the north.[11] Multilingualism is common throughout the country, especially in the major cities.
Up to 89.7% of the population practices Sunni Islam and belongs to the Hanafi Islamic law school, while 10–15% are followers of Shia Islam;[11][13] the majority of whom belong to the Twelver branch, with smaller numbers of Ismailis. The remaining 0.3% practice other religions such as Sikhism and Hinduism. Excluding urban populations in the principal cities, most people are organised into tribal and other kinship-based groups, who follow their own traditional customs.
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^ ab"Afghanistan". World Health Organization (WHO). Retrieved 1 March 2021.
^ ab"Afghanistan". United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
^ abc"Afghanistan". UNESCO. 27 November 2016. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017.
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