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Population, fertility rate and net reproduction rate, United Nations estimates. The population of Afghanistan is around 43.4 million as of 2024. [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.
The population of Afghanistan was estimated at 32.9 million as of 2019 by the Afghanistan Statistics and Information Authority, [415] whereas the UN estimates over 38.0 million. [416] In 1979 the total population was reported to be about 15.5 million. [ 417 ]
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
The only city in Afghanistan with over 1 million people is its capital, Kabul. The rest are smaller cities and towns . According to the National Statistic and Information Authority of Afghanistan (NSIA), an estimated total number of people living inside Afghanistan was 32,225,560 in 2020.
According to another assessment by Save the Children, more than half of Afghanistan’s population, about 24 million people, will be in dire need of humanitarian assistance, like cash and food ...
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Kabul's population was estimated in 2023 at about 4.95 million. [148] The city's population has long fluctuated due to the wars. The lack of an up-to-date census means that there are various estimates of the population. Kabul's population was estimated to have been about 10,000 in 1700, 65,000 by 1878, and 120,000 by 1940. [62]
Afghan Americans have a long history of immigrating to the United States, as they have arrived as early as the 1860s. [16] This was around the time when Afghanistan–United States relations were being established.