KABUL, 10 June 2021, (TON): The Afghanistan’s National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) estimates Afghanistan’s population to be 33.6 million in the current solar year of 1400 (March 2021- March 2022), an increase from last year’s estimate of 32.9 million.
According to the statistics, 51% (17.1 million) of the population is male and 49% (16.5 million) is female.
Of the total population, 23.8 million (70.8%) are rural areas residents, 8.3 (24.7%) million are living in cities and 1.5 million (4.5%) are Kochis–nomads–according to NSIA figures.
The NSIA estimates Kabul’s population to be 5.38 million, with 2.7 million males and 2.6 million females.
Young people aged 10-14 make up the highest age group of Kabul province’s population at 774,000, and the smallest age group 60 – 64, at 93,000, according to estimates.
Earlier there was a lot of objections as the NSIA added a long list of names of non-Pashtun sub-tribes and names of some places in the database of e-Tazkira as independent identity groups. . A list of 54 non-Pashtun sub-tribes and small identity groups were added to the database chart of the e-Tazkira, which is issued by the NSIA at its fastest speed now. The sub-tribes newly added to the database mostly come from the ethnic Tajiks and Hazaras of Afghanistan.
