NationMaster - Discussion - Afghanistan Profile

Uhm 12th February 2012	I want to know if people live most in the city/towns/or countryside? THANKS:)
Hemonta Kr. Dutta 12th September 2009	I want to know the population of afganisthan in 1975-1980
Us two (here) 16th March 2009	hi. i love mary poppins. love, gary poppins
abdullah (afghanistan) 5th October 2008	over the past 100 years afghan governments have made fake ethnic composition of afghanistan,s population saying that pashton 36% but the fact hidden by the goverments is that tajiks make more than 40% of afghan population.
Baktash 18th November 2007	I am from Afghanistan and I in fact have done many research on the ethnicity's amongst the Afghan people and want to educate the people whom are visitors to the website that the pashtoon population in Afghanistan is approximately 55%whereas the tajiks are one of the minority. The fact that most people got confused is that most Pashtoon People know how to speak Dari or farsi, but most of dari speakers do not know pashto. Nevertheless, making it seem as if Pashtoon people are the minority. But whoever said Pashtoon's are less then 30 percent of the population is literally, Illiterate.
Khattak (Orange County, US) 30th October 2007	Nice website. Pashtoons i think makes makeup more then 60% of the population of Afghanistan. Since they had been ruling the country for a very long time. We know that east, south, half of the center and west is pashtun. We also know that pashtun are in majority even in some northern provinces such as Kunduz. I think the reason Tajiks feel that they are more then pashtuns is because they got American backing right now and hence the government.
Jamshed (Peshawar) 4th April 2007	The population of Pashtuns is under-estimated. In fact, as I have been involved in several serveys, it is more than 50% but the majority of serving Dari speakers in bureacracy never wanted this made public.
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.
Farzana Kabir 14th August 2005	I am from Afghanistan and currently a student of Master degree in Human Resource Planning and Development in India, I am writing my project about women empowerment in Afghanistan,I found useful information about my country profile from this site thank you v.much, but still I am in need of exact data about women participation rate in economic activity in Afghanistan, female enrollment in educational institution and female health in Afghanistan. If you share such data I would be glad my email address frozjan@yahoo.com

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