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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  • National statistics office
  • 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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    • December 2023
      Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 28 March, 2024
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      Note: ECDC will cease to update this dataset on 1 December 2023. Note:Data cited at European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, an agency of the European Union: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwideThe population data in the databases are from the World Bank.
    • April 2024
      Source: GlobalPetrolPrices.com
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      Accessed On: 24 April, 2024
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      Data cited at: Global Petrol Prices web site - https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/ License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Data is getting collected Every Tuesday evening from the Global Petrol Prices website. Weekly Average data is available from 28-Dec-2015 onward. Monthly average price is available for the period of January, 2013 - July, 2013    
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    • April 2024
      Source: World Health Organization
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      Accessed On: 19 April, 2024
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      Data Citation: FluNet: https://apps.who.int/flumart/Default?ReportNo=2: World Health Organization; [2021]. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO WHO- FluMart is a platform that has been developed to facilitate data exchange, harmonization, consolidation and storage of influenza related data. FluMart allows the upload of any user defined data files in their own format and transforms them into standard data. Standard format data can be used for analysis purposes and to produce reports. FluMart does not replace already existing applications such as FluNet and FluID, but combines the data from different applications and/or data sources in one common platform to enable integrated analysis and reporting. Note: Date has been taken as Starting Date of range date for the week  
    • April 2024
      Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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      Accessed On: 24 April, 2024
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      Data retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/   FRED Economic Research Division "International Data" dataset contains series for the following categories: money, banking & finance; national accounts; population, employment & labor markets; production & business activity; prices; work started; consumer opinion surveys; business tendency surveys (construction); business tendency surveys (services); business tendency surveys (manufacturing); business tendency surveys (non-manufacturing); leading indicators OECD; business tendency surveys (retail trade).
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