NLAID - Activity in Afghanistan

Information on Afghanistan

Birth rate 37.83 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 32.9% (2004) country comparison to the world: 13

Climate arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers

Death rate 17.39 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil degradation; overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials); desertification; air and water pollution

Infant mortality rate
total 149.2 deaths/1,000 live births
male 152.75 deaths/1,000 live births
female 145.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashto (official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism

Life expectancy at birth
total population 45.02 years
male 44.79 years
female 45.25 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 28.1%
male 43.1%
female 12.6% (2000 est.)

Maternal mortality rate 1,400 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 1

Natural resources natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones

Population
29,835,392 (July 2011 est.)
note this is a significantly revised figure; the previous estimate of 33,609,937 was extrapolated from the last Afghan census held in 1979, which was never completed because of the Soviet invasion

Population growth rate 2.375% (2011 est.)

Religions Sunni Muslim 80%, Shia Muslim 19%, other 1%

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 9 years
male 11 years
female 7 years (2009)

KAB/NAT-10/08 The Asia Strenghtening Rule of Law in Afghanistan through increased protection of woman's rights within islam and access to Justice

Project code NL-1-PPR-18522

Support to Change Management programme within MAIL, including Institutional Strengthening for the agricultural education programme within MoE/TVET

Project code NL-1-PPR-20326

Samenwerking tussen politie en OM in Afghanistan te versterken, teneinde het vertrouwen van de Afghaanse bevolking in het formele Afghaanse rechtssysteem te vergroten en een toename in de behandeling van het aantal strafzaken te bewerkstelligen.

Project code NL-1-PPR-21658