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Afghanistan

  • Leader:Hibatullah Akhundzada
  • Prime Minister (acting):Abdul Kabir
  • Capital city:Kabul
  • 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, but Dari functions as the lingua franca note: the Turkic languages Uzbek and Turkmen, as well as Balochi, Pashai, Nuristani, and Pamiri are the third official languages in areas where the majority speaks them
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  • Population, persons:42,802,656 (2024)
  • Area, sq km:652,230
  • GDP per capita, US$:356 (2021)
  • GDP, billion current US$:14.3 (2021)
  • GINI index:No data
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:173

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    • World Happiness Index
      March 2023
      Source: Sustainable Development Solutions Network
      Uploaded by: Raviraj Mahendran
      Accessed On: 20 March, 2024
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      The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more deeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect our happiness.