Country comparison: Afghanistan / Brazil

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Afghanistan and Brazil. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Afghanistan	Brazil
Region:	South Asia	South America
Area:	652,860 km²	8,515,770 km²
National language:	Pashto, Persian	Portuguese
Government form:	Presidential islamic republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1919 AD	1822 AD
Capital:	Kabul	Brasilia

Population

Details for Afghanistan and Brazil

	Afghanistan	Brazil
Population:	40,099,000	214,326,000
Inhabitants/km²:	61.4	25.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 60 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 65 years	Ø 77 years
Average age:	Ø 19.5 years	Ø 33.2 years
Birth rate:	36.05 ‰	13.08 ‰
Death rate:	7.11 ‰	7.42 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.10 ‰	-0.19 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Afghanistan	Brazil
Political stability:	28	44
Civil rights:	9	44
Health:	15	59
Climate:	64	65
Cost of Living:	100	70
Popularity:	63	31

Economy

Details for Afghanistan and Brazil

	Afghanistan	Brazil
Currency:	afghani (1 AFN = 100 Puls)	Brazilian real (1 BRL =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	13.3 %	9.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.30 %	9.28 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	19.02 %	49.77 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.40 %	65.10 %
Average income:	390 US$	7,740 US$
Corruption index:	76 (very bad)	62 (bad)

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	14,787 M US$	0.37 M US$	1,608,981 M US$	7.51 M US$
Gross national product:	15,695 M US$	0.39 M US$	1,658,600 M US$	7.74 M US$
Exported goods:	1,476 M US$	0.04 M US$	379,783 M US$	1.77 M US$
Imported goods:	6,983 M US$	0.17 M US$	375,639 M US$	1.75 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Afghanistan and Brazil

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	34,903 km	0.87 km	2,000,000 km	9.33 km
Waterways:	1,200 km	0.03 km	50,000 km	0.23 km
Passenger airports:	5	0.0001	116	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for Afghanistan and Brazil

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	6.80 bn kWh	169,522.47 kWh	1.709 tn kWh	7.97 m kWh
Energy consumption:	5.91 bn kWh	147,458.34 kWh	541.00 bn kWh	2.52 m kWh
Energy production:	1.06 bn kWh	26,499.11 kWh	622.01 bn kWh	2.90 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	395.00 m kWh	1,842.98 kWh
Energy imports:	4.91 bn kWh	122,495.41 kWh	25.11 bn kWh	117,171.85 kWh
CO2 emissions:	6.08 m t	151.50 t	434.30 m t	2,026.34 t

Telecommunication

Details for Afghanistan and Brazil

	Afghanistan	Brazil
International dialing:	+93	+55
Internet domain:	.af	.br

	AFG total	AFG per 1000 inh.	BRA total	BRA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	145,787	4	28,883,475	135
Mobile cellulars:	22,678,024	566	219,660,524	1025
Internet server:	223	0	26,577,000	124
Internet users:	7,378,301	184	174,338,723	813
Broadband Internet:	26,570	1	41,657,433	194

Healthcare system

Details for Afghanistan and Brazil

	Afghanistan	Brazil
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.39	2.09
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.28	2.15
Diabetes:	9.2 %	10.4 %
Malaria:	29.0 %	5.1 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.39 %
Tuberculosis:	1.89 ‰	0.48 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	67.0 %
Smokers:	23.3 %	12.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Afghanistan and Brazil

	Afghanistan	Brazil
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	30.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.8 °C	20.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	50 %	78 %
Rain days:	3.9	8.8
Sunshine hours per day:	8.2	6.6

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Brazil
Afghanistan

Native languages

	Afghanistan	Brazil
Portuguese:	n/a	93.2 %
Pashto:	52.4 %	n/a
Persian:	32.1 %	n/a
Uzbek:	8.8 %	n/a
Turkmen:	1.9 %	n/a
Balochi:	0.9 %	n/a
German:	n/a	0.5 %
Italian:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Quechua:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	3.9 %	5.7 %

Religions

	Afghanistan	Brazil
State religion:	Sunni Islam	none
Islam:	99.0 %	n/a
Christianity:	n/a	87.5 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	8.0 %
Spiritualism:	n/a	2.2 %
other:	1.0 %	2.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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