Country comparison: Afghanistan / Pakistan

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

General information

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
Region:	South Asia	South Asia
Area:	652,860 km²	796,100 km²
National language:	Pashto, Persian	Urdu
Government form:	Presidential islamic republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1919 AD	1947 AD
Capital:	Kabul	Islamabad

Population

Details for Afghanistan and Pakistan

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
Population:	40,099,000	231,402,000
Inhabitants/km²:	61.4	290.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 59 years	Ø 64 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 65 years	Ø 69 years
Average age:	Ø 19.5 years	Ø 22.0 years
Birth rate:	35.84 ‰	27.52 ‰
Death rate:	7.34 ‰	7.17 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.10 ‰	-1.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
Political stability:	30	26
Civil rights:	9	26
Health:	15	29
Climate:	64	72
Cost of Living:	63	62
Popularity:	63	65

Economy

Details for Afghanistan and Pakistan

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
Currency:	afghani (1 AFN = 100 Puls)	Pakistanian rupee (1 PKR =100 Paisa)
Unemployment rate:	13.3 %	6.4 %
Inflation rate:	2.30 %	19.87 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	19.02 %	23.11 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.40 %	33.90 %
Average income:	390 US$	1,470 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	7.40 %	74.91 %
Corruption index:	76 (very bad)	73 (very bad)

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	14,787 M US$	0.37 M US$	348,263 M US$	1.51 M US$
Gross national product:	15,695 M US$	0.39 M US$	340,809 M US$	1.47 M US$
Exported goods:	1,476 M US$	0.04 M US$	38,563 M US$	0.17 M US$
Imported goods:	6,983 M US$	0.17 M US$	75,896 M US$	0.33 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Afghanistan and Pakistan

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	34,903 km	0.87 km	264,175 km	1.14 km
Passenger airports:	5	0.0001	34	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Afghanistan and Pakistan

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	6.80 bn kWh	169,522.47 kWh	349.74 bn kWh	1.51 m kWh
Energy consumption:	5.91 bn kWh	147,458.34 kWh	103.49 bn kWh	447,245.35 kWh
Energy production:	1.06 bn kWh	26,499.11 kWh	120.40 bn kWh	520,287.03 kWh
Energy imports:	4.91 bn kWh	122,495.41 kWh	487.00 m kWh	2,104.56 kWh
CO2 emissions:	6.08 m t	151.50 t	190.57 m t	823.55 t

Telecommunication

Details for Afghanistan and Pakistan

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
International dialing:	+93	+92
Internet domain:	.af	.pk

	AFG total	AFG per 1000 inh.	PAK total	PAK per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	145,787	4	2,989,133	13
Mobile cellulars:	22,678,024	566	188,711,452	816
Internet server:	223	0	365,813	2
Internet users:	7,378,301	184	57,850,529	250
Broadband Internet:	26,570	1	2,949,027	13

Healthcare system

Details for Afghanistan and Pakistan

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.39	0.63
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.28	0.98
Diabetes:	9.2 %	19.9 %
Malaria:	29.0 %	3.4 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.89 ‰	2.64 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	94.0 %
Smokers:	23.3 %	20.2 %

Climate

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

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	30.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.8 °C	17.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	50 %	55 %
Rain days:	3.9	3.8
Sunshine hours per day:	8.2	8.0

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Pakistan
Afghanistan

Native languages

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
Pashto:	52.4 %	13.1 %
Punjabi:	n/a	48.2 %
Persian:	32.1 %	n/a
Sindhi:	n/a	11.8 %
Saraiki:	n/a	9.8 %
Uzbek:	8.8 %	n/a
Urdu:	n/a	7.6 %
Balochi:	0.9 %	3.0 %
Hindko:	n/a	2.4 %
Turkmen:	1.9 %	n/a
Brahui:	n/a	1.2 %
other:	3.9 %	2.9 %

Religions

	Afghanistan	Pakistan
State religion:	Sunni Islam	Sunni Islam
Islam:	99.0 %	95.0 %
Hinduism:	n/a	2.0 %
Christianity:	n/a	1.6 %
other:	1.0 %	1.4 %

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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