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Afghanistan vs Israel
How Afghanistan and Israel compare on 38 measures, from 1789 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Israel was higher: 82.4 years against 66 years
- GDP per person · In 2024, Israel was higher: $41,880 against $374
- Population · In 2023, Afghanistan was higher: 41.5 million people against 9.26 million people
- Military spending · In 2021, Israel was higher: 4.81% of GDP against 1.83% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Israel was higher: 5.77 tonnes against 0.28 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyAfghanistan: 66 years in 2023Israel: 82.4 years in 2023
- Child mortalityAfghanistan: 5.3 per 100 live births in 2024Israel: 0.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityAfghanistan: 44 per 1,000 live births in 2023Israel: 2.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterAfghanistan: 30% in 2022Israel: 99.5% in 2022
- DepressionAfghanistan: 4.14% in 2017Israel: 3.83% in 2017
- Suicide rateAfghanistan: 9.2 per 100,000 people in 2017Israel: 5.7 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationAfghanistan: 41.5 million people in 2023Israel: 9.26 million people in 2023
- Population growthAfghanistan: 2.85% a year in 2023Israel: 1.42% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateAfghanistan: 4.84 births per woman in 2023Israel: 2.83 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationAfghanistan: 25.9% in 2025Israel: 91.6% in 2025
- Median ageAfghanistan: 16.9 years in 2023Israel: 29.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overAfghanistan: 2.4% in 2023Israel: 12.4% in 2023
- Net migration rateAfghanistan: -1.2 per 1,000 people in 2023Israel: 1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingAfghanistan: 1.83% of GDP in 2021Israel: 7.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsAfghanistan: $8.55M in 1977Israel: $43.7B in 2025
- Military spending per personAfghanistan: $7 in 2021Israel: $5,108 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingAfghanistan: 5% of government spending in 2020Israel: 17.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelAfghanistan: 165,000 people in 2020Israel: 178,000 people in 2020
- National powerAfghanistan: 0.29% of world capability in 2022Israel: 0.38% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersAfghanistan: 1.82% of the labour force in 2020Israel: 4.23% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsAfghanistan: 65 million TIV in 2021Israel: 537 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exportsAfghanistan: 1 million TIV in 1992Israel: 2.62 billion TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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