NationMaster - Afghan People statistics

Age dependency ratio > dependents to working-age population	0.94	...	[41st of 185]
Age structure > 0-14 years	44.7		[19th of 226]
Age structure > 0-14 years	44.6 %		[18th of 225]
Age structure > 0-14 years > Females	6,940,378		[23rd of 221]
Age structure > 0-14 years > From total	44.6 %		[19th of 223]
Age structure > 0-14 years > Males	7,282,600		[23rd of 221]
Age structure > 15-64 years	52.9		[206th of 226]
Age structure > 15-64 years	53 %		[206th of 225]
Age structure > 15-64 years > Females	8,227,387		[41st of 221]
Age structure > 15-64 years > From total	53 %		[202nd of 223]
Age structure > 15-64 years > Males	8,668,170		[40th of 221]
Age structure > 65 years and over	2.4 %		[217th of 225]
Age structure > 65 years and over > Females	396,962		[70th of 221]
Age structure > 65 years and over > From total	2.4 %		[214th of 223]
Age structure > 65 years and over > Males	374,426		[65th of 221]
Birth rate	46.21 births/1,000 population		[4th of 220]
Child Protection > Birth registration, % of total	10		[55th of 56]
Chinese population	169		[99th of 127]
(per capita)	0.565 per 100,000 people		[107th of 126]
Death rate	19.96 deaths/1,000 population		[11th of 219]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; UNICEF; University Libraries, Ohio University

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Afghanistan, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan, Afghanestan

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COMMENTARY

Shahsawar
7th January 2006

As a person from Afghanistan I praise your effort for gathering the most useful information to the visitor of your web-site about my country. But some of your information are based on assumptions made by other sources. For example the ethnic composition of Afghanistan's population is contravesial issue. In fact no ethnic group in Afghanistan is more than one-third of the population. Knowing this hard fact of life, Pashton dominated governments of Afghanistan never wanted to have reliable census of the country and ehtnic composiotion of the population. According to the provisions of the "BonnAgremeent" the Afghan government with support of the UN should have carried out this project but so far nothing has been done in this regard. Since there is no data no one can claim that Pashtoons are 42% of the population...If sone claims it can be labele only as "claim". If Pashtons were 42% and Tajiks 27 % why then the languge Tajiks is the langua franca of the country rather than the other way round. This is despite the fact all governments in Afghanistan during the past 100 years tried to replace Dari by Pashto in all official spheres.
The reality is that Pashtoons are less than 33% of the Afghan population. Tajiks togeter with Aimaqs and Qizelbashs make more than 40% of the Afghan population.

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