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Afghanistan

43,844,111

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.2M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+117.8%from 20.13M
Life expectancy66.3 years2024
Fertility rate4.76births per woman · 2024
Urban population25.9%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanLow income

A country at every age

How Afghanistan is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1442.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6455.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.4%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate35.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+29.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-74.4Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Afghanistan look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 76.89M in 2050—80.3% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202442.65M
  2. 205076.89M
  3. 2100130.22M
Median age in 205023.0years
Births in 20501.81Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050394.68Kduring the year
Life expectancy70.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19609.04M
  2. 197011.29M
  3. 198013.17M
  4. 199012.05M
  5. 200020.13M
  6. 201028.28M
  7. 202039.07M
  8. 202543.84M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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