Afghanistan
Internet users in Afghanistan
Internet users in Afghanistan: 0% in 1990 and 16.1% in 2024, by ITU estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- 16.1%
- Since 1990
- +16.1 percentage points
- Rank, 2024
- 177 of 182
- counting from the highest
- World, 2024
- 71.2%
% of people · ITU
What the numbers say
- The highest was 17.6% in 2019, the lowest 0% in 1990.
Every year
% of people · ITU
| Year | Afghanistan | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 73.6 |
| 2024 | 16.1 | 71.2 |
| 2023 | 15.9 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | 15.9 | 67 |
| 2021 | 16.5 | 63.8 |
| 2020 | 17.1 | 60.1 |
| 2019 | 17.6 | 53.9 |
| 2018 | 16.8 | 49.4 |
| 2017 | 13.5 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | 43.6 |
| 2015 | 8.3 | 39.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | 37.4 |
| 2013 | 5.9 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 5.5 | 33.3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 30.9 |
| 2010 | 4 | 28.4 |
| 2009 | 3.6 | 25.3 |
| 2008 | 1.8 | 22.8 |
| 2007 | 1.9 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 2.1 | 17.2 |
| 2005 | 1.2 | 15.6 |
| 2004 | 0.1 | – |
| 2003 | 0.1 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
Good to know
- The share of people who used the internet in the last three months, from anywhere.
- Source: ITU, via the World Bank.
- Ranks count the 182 countries with a value in 2024, highest first.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Afghanistan in numbers
Every measure for Afghanistan on one page
Health
People
Economy
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Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.83% of GDP in 2021
- Military spending in US dollars$8.55M in 1977
- Military spending per person$7 in 2021
- Military share of state spending5% of government spending in 2020
- Armed forces personnel165,000 people in 2020
- National power0.29% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.82% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports65 million TIV in 2021
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 1992