Afghanistan
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Capital
- Kabul
- Region
- Southern Asia
- Population, 2025
- 44 million
- Currency
- AFN
- Area
- 652,230 km²
Across Afghanistan's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $513 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $338.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%47
- Safety20%25
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%81
- Connectivity10%0
- Cost10%96
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 20%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 20%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 25.3
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 74.7
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 4.0
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #149 worldwide
- 6
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #102 worldwide
- 19
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +29%
Cities in Afghanistan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Kandahār | 59 | — | — | — | — | 523.3K | Low confidence |
| 2Mazar-i-Sharif | 56 | — | — | $231 | — | 523.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Kunduz | 56 | — | — | — | — | 161.9K | Low confidence |
| 4Balkh | 56 | — | — | — | — | 114.9K | Low confidence |
| 5Baghlān | 55 | — | — | — | — | 108.4K | Low confidence |
| 6Ghazni | 55 | — | — | — | — | 141K | Low confidence |
| 7Herat | 54 | — | — | — | — | 574.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Gardez | 54 | — | — | — | — | 103.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Bagrām | 52 | — | — | — | — | 113.2K | Low confidence |
| 10Kabul | 49 | 26.0 | $123 | $338 | 75.3 | 4.4M | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 11Jalalabad | 48 | 33.4 | $116 | $185 | 34.3 | 271.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Sheberghān (Shibarghan) | 33 | — | — | $199 | — | 55.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Uruzgan | 33 | — | — | — | — | 13.4K | Low confidence |
| 14Anar Darreh | 33 | — | — | — | — | 10K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 15Ishkashim (Eshkashem) | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |