services: 15.7% (FY08/09 est.)
Unemployment rate:
35% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 183 40% (2005 est.)
Population below poverty line:
36% (FY08/09)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
13.3% (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 214 20.7% (2008 est.)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
15% (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 48 14.92% (31 December 2008 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$3.943 billion (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 100 $2.819 billion (31 December 2008)
Stock of broad money:
$4.149 billion (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 125 $2.915 billion (31 December 2008)
Stock of domestic credit:
$363.6 million (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 166 $20.06 million (31 December 2007 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Agriculture - products:
opium, wheat, fruits, nuts; wool, mutton, sheepskins, lambskins
Industries:
small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, apparel, food-products, non-alcoholic beverages, mineral water, cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, coal, copper
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
285.5 million kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 168
Electricity - consumption:
231.1 million kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 175
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - imports:
230 million kWh (2007 est.)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 116
Oil - consumption:
5,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 164
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 138
Oil - imports:
4,404 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 161
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 99
Natural gas - production:
30 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 84
Natural gas - consumption:
30 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 108
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 46
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 70
Natural gas - proved reserves:
49.55 billion cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 65
Current account balance:
-$2.475 billion (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 160 $85 million (2008 est.)
Exports:
$547 million (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 164 $603 million (2008 est.); note - not including illicit exports or reexports
Exports - commodities:
opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems
Exports - partners:
US 26.47%, India 23.09%, Pakistan 17.36%, Tajikistan 12.51% (2009)
Imports:
$5.3 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 109 $4.5 billion (2007)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and other capital goods, food, textiles, petroleum products
Imports - partners:
Pakistan 26.78%, US 24.81%, India 5.15%, Germany 5.06%, Russia 4.04% (2009)
Debt - external:
$2.7 billion (2008/2009) country comparison to the world: 134 $8 billion (2004)
Exchange rates:
afghanis (AFA) per US dollar - 50.23 (2009), 50.25 (2008), 50 (2007), 46 (2006), 47.7 (2005), 48 (2004)
Communications ::Afghanistan
Telephones - main lines in use:
129,300 (2009) country comparison to the world: 139
Telephones - mobile cellular:
12 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 57
Telephone system:
general assessment: limited fixed-line telephone service; an increasing number of Afghans utilize mobile-cellular phone networks
domestic: aided by the presence of multiple providers, mobile-cellular telephone service continues to improve rapidly
international: country code - 93; multiple VSAT's provide international and domestic voice and data connectivity (2009)
Broadcast media:
state-owned broadcaster, Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), operates a series of radio and television stations in Kabul and the provinces; an estimated 50 private radio stations, 8 TV networks, and about a dozen international broadcasters are available; more than 30 community-based radio stations broadcasting (2007)
Internet country code:
.af
Internet hosts:
46 (2010) country comparison to the world: 211
Internet users:
1 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 98
Communications - note:
Internet access is growing through Internet cafes as well as public "telekiosks" in Kabul (2005)
Transportation ::Afghanistan
Airports:
53 (2010) country comparison to the world: 89
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 19
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 2 (2010)
Airports - with unpaved runways: