Demographics of Afghanistan

Source	UN (World Population Prospects 2019)
Date	18 Nov 2021

As of 2021, the population of Afghanistan is projected at 39.84 million, up by 2.33% compared with 38.93 million in 2020. Afghanistan is ranked 37th in terms of population and 41st in terms of population growth rate.

There are 1.22 million births in Afghansitan in 2021. That is 3340 per day, which is ranked 23rd. The crude birth rate is 30.53 per 1000 people. There are 0.24 million deaths in Afghanistan in 2021. That is 661 per day, which is ranked 42nd. The crude death rate is 6.04 per 1000 people.

10.24 million people are living in urban areas, which is 26.31% of Afghanistan population. Afghanistan is ranked 209th in terms of urbanization.

The Sex Ratio in Afghanistan in 2021 is 105.33 males per 100 females. There are 20.43 million males and 19.4 million females in Afghanistan. The percentage of female population is 48.7% compare to 51.3% male population. Afghanistan has 1.03 million more males than females. Afghanistan is at 184th position out of 201 countries/territories in terms of female to male ratio.

Afghanistan population

Year	Population	Growth (%)
1950	7,752,117	-
1955	8,270,992	1.47
1960	8,996,967	1.85
1965	9,956,318	2.17
1970	11,173,654	2.57
1975	12,689,164	2.23
1980	13,356,500	-0.41
1985	11,938,204	-2.18
1990	12,412,311	4.58
1995	18,110,662	6.06
2000	20,779,957	3.02
2005	25,654,274	3.75
2010	29,185,511	2.78
2015	34,413,603	3.12
2016	35,383,028	2.82
2017	36,296,111	2.58
2018	37,171,922	2.41
2019	38,041,757	2.34
2020	38,928,341	2.33
2021	39,835,428	2.33

Total
Crude

Afghanistan death and birth rate

Year	Total		Crude(per 1000)
Year	Death	Birth	Crude death	Crude birth
1950	298,139	390,647	38.17	49.99
1955	292,446	420,074	35.26	50.69
1960	290,719	462,430	32.22	51.28
1965	294,705	515,368	29.50	51.63
1970	302,495	579,453	26.88	51.50
1975	303,517	642,152	24.09	50.93
1980	273,749	651,482	21.11	50.32
1985	219,823	604,439	18.00	49.73
1990	203,109	652,553	15.24	48.88
1995	230,071	846,137	13.28	48.84
2000	250,541	1,024,429	11.72	48.02
2005	253,103	1,131,218	10.00	44.72
2010	244,088	1,177,588	8.25	39.83
2015	237,503	1,192,175	6.93	34.81
2020	240,266	1,215,628	6.16	31.15
2021	241,211	1,219,250	6.04	30.53

Population
Urbanization

Urban and rural population of Afghanistan

Year	Population		Urbanization
Year	Urban	Rural	growth rate (%)	Urban (%)
1950	465,127	7,286,990	-	6.00
1955	587,818	7,682,760	4.95	7.10
1960	755,797	8,240,550	5.28	8.40
1965	984,350	8,954,060	5.52	9.90
1970	1,295,433	9,830,690	5.85	11.64
1975	1,717,422	10,872,860	5.44	13.64
1980	2,119,078	11,129,290	3.13	15.99
1985	2,238,468	9,544,580	1.18	18.99
1990	2,593,947	9,655,160	4.44	21.17
1995	3,697,570	13,401,970	6.17	21.62
2000	4,436,282	15,657,470	3.99	22.08
2005	5,691,836	19,378,960	4.88	22.70
2010	6,836,980	21,966,180	3.77	23.74
2015	8,367,571	25,368,920	3.89	24.80
2020	9,904,337	28,150,600	3.36	26.03
2021	10,239,684	28,674,020	3.39	26.31

Population pyramid
Gender ratio

Afghanistan population by Age Group (2011)

Age group	Male	Female	Total		M per 100 F
Age group	Male	Female	Persons	Share (%)	M per 100 F
00-04	2,932,252	2,792,395	5,724,647	14.37	105.008
05-09	2,790,513	2,653,944	5,444,457	13.67	105.146
10-14	2,678,248	2,564,119	5,242,367	13.16	104.451
15-19	2,428,348	2,301,586	4,729,934	11.87	105.508
20-24	2,082,113	1,972,986	4,055,099	10.18	105.531
25-29	1,677,507	1,570,407	3,247,914	8.15	106.820
30-34	1,346,716	1,226,628	2,573,344	6.46	109.790
35-39	1,104,444	1,020,048	2,124,492	5.33	108.274
40-44	901,264	824,061	1,725,325	4.33	109.369
45-49	705,742	651,961	1,357,703	3.41	108.249
50-54	548,296	520,915	1,069,211	2.68	105.256
55-59	425,454	410,497	835,951	2.10	103.644
60-64	315,982	317,618	633,600	1.59	99.485
65-69	222,747	234,918	457,665	1.15	94.819
70-74	145,166	175,820	320,986	0.81	82.565
75-79	80,628	97,768	178,396	0.45	82.469
80-84	35,464	44,737	80,201	0.20	79.272
85-89	11,382	15,822	27,204	0.07	71.938
90-94	2,433	3,696	6,129	0.02	65.828
95-99	270	491	761	0.00	54.990
100+	12	30	42	0.00	40.000
Total	20,434,981	19,400,447	39,835,428		105.333