Health in Afghanistan

1,181 indicators covering health for Afghanistan.

IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank
Deaths age 20 to 24 14,240 2024 up 24.8% 12th
Mortality rate age 15-19 11.42 2024 down 14.1% 10th
Mortality rate age 10-19 15.52 2024 down 8.1% 19th
Number of youth deaths 88,545 2024 down 13.8% 14th
Number of deaths ages 10-19 years 15,471 2024 up 13.4% 12th
Number of deaths ages 5-9 years, female 2,765 2024 up 26.2% 19th
Number of deaths ages 5-9 years, male 3,500 2024 up 24.9% 19th
Number of deaths ages 10-14 years, female 1,957 2024 up 46.7% 22nd
Number of deaths ages 10-14 years, male 2,555 2024 up 29.2% 21st
Number of deaths ages 10-19 years, female 7,481 2024 up 14.9% 10th
Number of deaths ages 10-19 years, male 7,990 2024 up 12.0% 17th
Number of deaths ages 15-19 years, female 5,524 2024 up 6.7% 7th
Number of deaths ages 15-19 years, male 5,435 2024 up 5.4% 15th
Number of deaths ages 20-24 years, female 6,738 2024 up 40.4% 5th
Number of deaths ages 20-24 years, male 7,502 2024 up 13.5% 17th
Adolescent mortality rate 4.15 2024 up 13.7% 32nd
Mortality rate for 5-14 year-olds 9.26 2024 up 7.8% 31st
Mortality rate among children ages 5 to 9 years 5.13 2024 up 3.5% 31st
Number of deaths among adolescents 4,512 2024 up 36.3% 20th
Number of deaths among children 5 to 14 years of age 10,777 2024 up 29.8% 20th
Number of deaths among children ages 5 to 9 years 6,265 2024 up 25.5% 20th
Terrorism deaths 4,337 2021 up 184.4% 1st
Share of deaths from terrorism 1.47 2021 up 121.9% 1st
Deaths from terrorism by target 0 2021 down 100.0% 2nd
Deaths from suicide and non suicide terrorist attacks 4,171 2021 up 373.4% 1st
Suicide and other terrorist attacks 1,421 2021 up 316.7% 1st
Deaths from terrorist attacks by method of attack stacked bar 1,484 2021 up 1,625.6% 1st
Terrorism deaths rate 10.82 2021 up 107.4% 1st
Deaths from terrorist attacks by method 1,484 2021 up 1,625.6% 1st
Prevalence of HIV, total 0.1% 2024 unchanged 108th
Number of people who are undernourished 11.70 million 2023 up 91.8% 13th
People using safely managed sanitation services, urban 24.9% 2024 up 35.9% 104th
External health expenditure channeled through government 0.0% 2023 down 100.0% 129th
Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 33.5% 2021 down 7.5% 7th
Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 31.5% 2021 down 17.8% 20th
Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 32.7% 2021 down 12.1% 7th
Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning 2.5 per 100,000 population 2021 down 13.2% 9th
Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female 2.11 per 100,000 female population 2021 down 11.7% 6th
Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, male 2.88 per 100,000 male population 2021 down 14.0% 9th
Suicide mortality rate, female 2.36 per 100,000 female population 2021 down 4.1% 130th
Suicide mortality rate, male 4.81 per 100,000 male population 2021 down 1.6% 152nd
Suicide mortality rate 3.6 per 100,000 population 2021 down 2.2% 146th
Mortality from ncds sdgs 32.7 2021 down 12.1% 7th
Mortality from ncds gender 31.5 2021 down 17.8% 20th
Healthy life expectancy at birth 50.45 2021 down 1.0% 180th
Death rates from mental and substance disorders by age who 0 2021 1st
Death rate from cardiomyopathy myocarditis endocarditis who ghe age st 3.45 2021 down 8.6% 143rd
Nurses and midwives 0.549 per 1,000 people 2023 up 115.3% 175th
Share of women among the population living with hiv 9.6 2024 down 11.4% 167th
Population with primary reliance on polluting fuels and technologies 24.11 2023 up 10.5% 12th
Proportion of population with primary reliance on polluting fuels and 79.6% 2023 down 12.7% 57th
Population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technologies for 6.18 2023 up 193.6% 39th
Diabetes prevalence who gho 11.9 2014 up 28.0% 40th
Child mortality rate ihme 5.53 2019 down 33.4% 27th
Neonatal mortality ihme 2.5 2019 down 20.4% 21st
Number of neonatal deaths ihme 37,406 2019 up 4.7% 12th
Total alcohol consumption per capita, female (liters of pure alcohol) 0.003 2020 unchanged 179th
Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol) 0.011 2020 down 8.3% 180th
Total alcohol consumption per capita, male (liters of pure alcohol) 0.02 2020 down 9.1% 180th
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people living with hiv 11 2024 up 120.0% 143rd