Afghanistan World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Afghanistan	Rank
GDP	$19.4B	116
GDP growth, 1 year	2.3%	132
GDP growth, 5-years average	2.2%	125
Population	34.9M	40
GDP per capita	$521	191
GDP per capita growth	-1.35%	173
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	19.27	71
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.27	179
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$2k	179
GNI, Atlas method	$20.3B	113
GNI per capita	$550	182
GNI, PPP adjusted	$73.1B	97
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$2k	170

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Afghanistan	Rank
Income Tax Rate	20%	43
Corporate Tax Rate	20%	47
Inflation, consumer prices	0.6%	14
Inflation, GDP deflator	0.8%	25
Unemployment	1.5%	13
Economic Freedom Index	54.7	147
Personal Freedom Index	4	191
Human Freedom Index	4	191
Property Rights Index	48.3	115
Judical Effectiveness Index	30	148
Business Freedom Index	54.7	133
Fiscal Health Index	99.9	2
Labor Freedom Index	61.6	76
Investment Freedom Index	10	173
Financial Freedom Index	10	175
Trade Freedom Index	66	134
Monetary Freedom Index	81	44
Government Spending Index	79.2	59
Tax Burden Index	91.4	20
Government Integrity Index	24.8	147
Corruption Perceptions Index	16	189
Life expectancy at birth, years	64.1	161
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	4.7	58
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	15.1	94
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	7.1	136
International tourism, number of arrivals	N/A	-

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Afghanistan	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	7.1%	180
External debt stocks, % of GNI	13.4%	113
External debt stocks	$2.6B	89
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	4.4%	93
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	4.9%	98
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	2.7%	115
Gross savings, % of GDP	18.7%	106
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	19.2%	135
Total reserves including gold	$8.2B	72
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$119.4M	141

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Afghanistan	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	5.9%	184
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	45.3%	81
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$3.7B	149
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	12.2%	142
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$3.3B	3
Personal remittances received	$803.5M	89
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	22.1%	117
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	20.5%	34
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$2.4M	130
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$13k	140
Expense, % of GDP	36.7%	25
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	26.3%	121