Countries / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
LowRanked #181 of 195 in 2023 · South Asia
Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 composite indices. All figures below come directly from that dataset — nothing here is estimated or AI-generated.
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0.496 in 2023, compared against the world and South Asia average.
Components
66 yrs
Life expectancy
10.8 yrs
Expected schooling
2.5 yrs
Mean schooling
1,972
GNI per capita
Related indices
Inequality-adjusted HDI
0.321
HDI adjusted downward for inequality in the distribution of health, education, and income within the country — lower than HDI whenever inequality exists.
Gender Development Index
0.660
Ratio of female to male HDI — 1.0 means parity; below 1.0 means women's human development lags men's.
Gender Inequality Index
0.661
Reflects gender-based disadvantage in reproductive health, empowerment, and labour markets — 0 is parity, 1 is total inequality.
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI
0.492
HDI adjusted downward for a country's carbon emissions and material footprint — the gap from HDI shows the cost to planetary pressure.