World population/Afghanistan
Asia
Population of Afghanistan
45,047,067
Growing by 0.04 people every second
#36
world rank
0.54%
of world population
+2.69%
yearly change
+1,211,846
people this year
1,520,756
births a year
248,524
deaths a year
How the figure for Afghanistan is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Afghanistan at 45,047,067 on 1 July 2026, and projects 46,258,913 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.04 people added every second.
That places Afghanistan at number 36 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.54 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 1,520,756 births and 248,524 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.